Implication of the lopsided growth for the viscosity of Earth's inner core

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 361, Issue , 2013, Pages 391-401

  Mizzon, Hugau ^a   Monnereau, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Earth's inner core; Numerical modeling; Thermal convection; Translation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HEAT CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SPHERES; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); VISCOSITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONVECTIVE MOTIONS; EARTH'S INNER CORES; IMPERMEABLE BOUNDARY; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; PARTICULAR SOLUTION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; THERMAL CONVECTIONS; THERMAL HETEROGENEITY;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INNER CORE; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; THERMAL CONVECTION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84872310338     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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