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Influence of depth dependence of the Earth's mantle properties on thermal-convection characteristics
Šustková, Hana ; Matyska, Ctirad (advisor) ; Čížková, Hana (referee)
Title: Influence of depth dependence of the Earth's mantle properties on thermal-convection characteristics Author: Hana Šustková Department: Department of Geophysics Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Ctirad Matyska, DrSc. Abstract: This thesis concerns the study of convection in Cartesian models in two and three dimensions. Specifically, it deals with the systematic monitoring of critical Rayleigh numbers based on the geometry model, on the functional dependence of the viscosity or of other parameters. Models has been created with layered viscosity and constant or temperature- and depth- dependent parameters (thermal expansion and conductivity). The system has been described by conventional dimensionless Boussinesq approximation. Part of the work is devoted to the application of matrix method for solving the appropriate Stokes flow and use of Euler's method for solving the thermal equation. The actual calculations were then performed in an environment of commercial software Comsol and thus by using the finite element method. It was shown that the dominant influence on the critical Rayleigh numbers has a viscosity model (with increasing viscosity the critical Rayleigh numbers increase), other important parameter is system's geometry (larger size and dimension of the geometry reduce the critical Rayleigh number). The...
Influence of depth dependence of the Earth's mantle properties on thermal-convection characteristics
Šustková, Hana ; Matyska, Ctirad (advisor) ; Čížková, Hana (referee)
Aim of this work is a systematic investigation of the modes of thermal convection (onset of convection, stationary solutions, periodic solutions, chaotic states) in a material whose properties vary with depth like the material of Earth mantle; the problem was solved in Cartesian geometry. The Stokes equation set was consistently formulated in the spectral region not only horizontally but also vertically, and thus in the model consisting of layers with a constant viscosity but with general course of velocity and temperature in each layer. This equation set was solved with matrix method for each wave vector. Thermal equation was solved in the spatial domain and the transition of velocity and temperature between spectral and spatial domains was performed using the fast Fourier transform. This procedure allows a straightforward parallelization, thereby opening the possibility of not only two-dimensional but also three-dimensional modeling and modeling of chaotic regimes. On the basis of the numerical difficulties of method presented here an model investigated in finite elemens was used. The basic modes of thermal convection were then investigated using model assembled in the software Comsol. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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