Effects of adiabatic compression on thermal convection in super-Earths of various sizes

Abstract We present two-dimensional numerical models of thermal convection of a compressible fluid in the mantles of super-Earths calculated under the truncated anelastic liquid approximation to discuss how adiabatic compression affects the thermal convection, depending on planetary mass. The convec...

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Main Authors: Takehiro Miyagoshi, Masanori Kameyama, Masaki Ogawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-12-01
Series:Earth, Planets and Space
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-018-0975-5