Influence of initial CMB temperature and other parameters on the thermal evolution of Earth's core resulting from thermochemical spherical mantle convection

A community benchmark for 2-D Cartesian compressible convection in the Earth's mantle

(2009) Scott D. King et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Is the long-wavelength geoid sensitive to the presence of postperovskite above the core-mantle boundary?

(2009) N. Tosi et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Temperature of the inner-core boundary of the Earth: Melting of iron at high pressure from first-principles coexistence simulations

(2009) Dario Alfè   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

A multiple-system study of the geochemical evolution of the mantle with force-balanced plates and thermochemical effects

(2008) J.P. Brandenburg et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lateral variations in CMB heat flux and deep mantle seismic velocity caused by a thermal–chemical-phase boundary layer in 3D spherical convection

(2008) Takashi Nakagawa et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Phase transitions in pyrolite and MORB at lowermost mantle conditions: Implications for a MORB-rich pile above the core–mantle boundary

(2008) Kenji Ohta et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The effect of bulk composition and temperature on mantle seismic structure

(2008) Wenbo Xu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Viscous heating, adiabatic heating and energetic consistency in compressible mantle convection

(2008) Wei Leng et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Time dependence in 3-D mantle convection models featuring evolving plates: Effect of lower mantle viscosity

(2008) A. D. Gait et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Thermochemical flows couple the Earth's inner core growth to mantle heterogeneity

(2008) Julien Aubert et al.   NATURE

DFT study of migration enthalpies in MgSiO3 perovskite

(2008) M. W. Ammann et al.   PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF MINERALS

Modeling mantle convection in the spherical annulus

(2008) John W. Hernlund et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Modelling compressible mantle convection with large viscosity contrasts in a three-dimensional spherical shell using the yin-yang grid

(2008) Paul J. Tackley   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS