Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990georl..17..239w&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 17, March 1990, p. 239-242.
Physics
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Free Convection, Heat Sources, Plates (Tectonics), Prandtl Number, Rayleigh Number, Rayleigh-Benard Convection, Earth Mantle, Flow Visualization, Shadowgraph Photography, Subduction (Geology), Time Dependence
Scientific paper
Laboratory experiments are used to examine the effects of large amounts of internal heat generation on Rayleigh-Benard convection planforms in a constant viscosity, high Prandtl number fluid. Internal heat generation is simulated by lowering the boundary temperatures at a constant rate. The Rayleigh number, Ra(T) based on the imposed temperature difference is 150,000, and the Rayleigh number based on the amount of internal heat generation, Ra(H) is varied from 0 to 3,000,000. In the absence of internal heat generation, the convection planforms are the symmetric spoke pattern in which connected spokes of ascending and descending flow have, on average, equal strength. With internal heat production, the planform is asymmetric with buoyancy concentrated in isolated descending arcuate trenches and circular plumes. The upwellings are nonbuoyant, although their planform is more connected than downwellings. The amount of time dependence is observed to increase with internal heat generation, and occurs by branching and propagation of the negatively buoyant trenches.
Olson Peter
Weinstein Stuart A.
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