• VE Main Page
• Thermal Convection
1. Introduction
2. Governing Equations
3. Rheology or Constitutive Laws
4. Boundary and Initial Conditions
5. Numerical Methods and Grid
6. Modeling
7. Mantle Convection Gallery
• Viscoelastic Stress Relaxation
To be developed ...
• Mantle Mixing
To be developed ...

1. Onset of Thermal Boundary Layer Instability
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Acknowledgement: Partially supported by NSF. Misha Barmin and Joshua Yambert helped build the user interface. Louis Moresi provided the 2-D convection code Citcom. Comments and suggestions can be sent to Shijie Zhong (szhong@anquetil.colorado.edu).