Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Nov 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998ep%26s...50.1047k&link_type=abstract
Earth, Planets and Space, Volume 50, p. 1047-1054.
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
Recent seismological evidences imply that the boundary between the lithosphere and asthenosphere is a compositional boundary in the oceanic upper mantle, and a rapid increase of viscosity at this boundary is suggested. We modeled a thermal convection in the oceanic mantle numerically using the finite element method, and investigated geodynamical consequences of such a rheological layering. Early results from both quasi-steady state flows and time-dependent flows are presented in this report. We assumed a temperature- and depth-dependent viscosity law so that both the thermal effects and those of layering are taken into account. The effect of a high-viscosity layer (HVL) is small on the flow and the temperature field. Velocity gradients in the HVL are small in both directions, and the velocity field is well approximated by a one-dimensional channel flow. The HVL acts as a low-pass filter of the dynamic topography.
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