Electrical resistivity and thermal conductivity of liquid Fe alloys at high P and T, and heat flux in Earth's core

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4070-4073

  De Koker, Nico ^a   Steinle Neumann, Gerd ^a   Vlček, Vojtěch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronic transport; Kubo Greenwood; Planetary magnetism

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; IRON; OXYGEN; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COMPRESSION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; HEAT; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84858246733     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111841109     Document Type: Article

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