An experimental study of the effects of surface tension in homogenizing perturbations in melt fraction

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 349-360

  King, Daniel S H ^a   Hier Majumder, Saswata ^b,c   Kohlstedt, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Melt migration; Stress driven melt segregation; Surface tension; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POTENTIAL GRADIENT; DIFFUSIVE MASS TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GRAIN SIZE; LENGTH SCALE; LIQUID PHASE; MELT DISTRIBUTIONS; MELT EXTRACTION; MELT FRACTION; MELT MIGRATION; MELT SEGREGATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; SOLID-LIQUID PHASE; SOLID-PHASE; STATIC ANNEALING; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UPPER MANTLE;

EXPERIMENTS; LIQUIDS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OLIVINE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SURFACE TENSION;

ANNEALING; CHROMITE; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMOGENEITY; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OLIVINE; PARTIAL MELTING; PERTURBATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SURFACE TENSION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWO PHASE FLOW; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 79959764687     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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