A Particle-in-Cell Method to Model the Influence of Partial Melt on Mantle Convection

Ana-Catalina Plesa (), Doris Breuer () and Tilman Spohn ()
Additional contact information
Ana-Catalina Plesa: Institute of Planetology, German Aerospace Centre, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin and WWU
Doris Breuer: Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Centre
Tilman Spohn: Institute of Planetology, WWU

A chapter in High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ‘12, 2013, pp 461-472 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Solid-state convection is the principal mechanism that controls the global dynamics and thermal evolution of the terrestrial planets. Observations such as seismology and mission data from geological structures at the planetary surfaces offer important constraints for the interior dynamics. However, our main knowledge stems from laboratory experiments and in particular from computer models. In the last years, due to the significant improve of high performance computing, computer simulations have became the most powerful access to this fluid-dynamical problem by solving partial differential equations in a discrete formulation to describe the flow in space and time. In the present work we will present results obtained using the cylindrical/spherical code GAIA with a particle-in-cell method to account for compositional changes due to partial melting of the mantle.

Keywords: Partial Melting; Rayleigh Number; Lower Mantle; Thermal Evolution; Mantle Convection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-33374-3_34

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783642333743

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33374-3_34

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().