Analytical Approaches to Mantle Dynamics

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 167-226

  Ribe, N M ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Boundary integral methods; Boundary layer theory; Dimensional analysis; Hydrodynamic stability; Intermediate asymptotics; Lubrication theory; Method of matched asymptotic expansions; Order parameter equations; Scaling analysis; Self similarity; Shell theory; Slender body theory; Slow viscous flow; Theory of elasticity; Thermal convection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882814455     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00117-6     Document Type: Chapter

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