Suitability of simple rheological laws for the numerical simulation of dense pyroclastic flows and long-runout volcanic avalanches

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kelfoun, Karim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB CRITERION; LEVEE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; RHEOLOGY; ROCK AVALANCHE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 80052049028     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007622     Document Type: Article

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