A FINITE-ELEMENT MODEL OF LUNAR THERMAL EVOLUTION
An attempt is made to model the thermal history of a self-gravitating Moon. Since the Rayleigh number at the end of the accretionary stage is supercritical, thermal convection in the Moon is likely to have occurred as early as 4.6 billion years ago. A combination of the Stokes equation of viscous fl...
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| Language: | English |
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1911/15536 |