Thermal Convection

Tectonics · Part 7

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Table of Contents

  1. 1.Convection as the Mantle Engine
  2. 2.Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
  3. 3.The Boussinesq Approximation
  4. 4.Boundary Layer Theory & Heat Transfer Scaling
  5. 5.Convection Cell Geometry & Time Dependence
  6. 6.Internal Heating vs Basal Heating
  7. 7.Key Concepts Summary

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