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Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics for Ph.D. Students - NDGF015
Title: Dynamika pláště a litosféry pro doktorandy
Guaranteed by: Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2015
Semester: both
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: 2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Hana Čížková, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. Ondřej Čadek, CSc.
Classification: Physics > Geophysics
Annotation -
Last update: T_KG (18.01.2007)
Fundamental equations describing the thermal convection in the Earth. Newtonian fluid. Thermal convection as a non-linear dynamical system.
Aim of the course -
Last update: CADEK/MFF.CUNI.CZ (03.04.2008)

Understanding present-day level of geodynamical research.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: prof. RNDr. František Gallovič, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

Oral exam

Literature -
Last update: T_KG (26.03.2008)
  • C. Matyska, Mathematical Introduction to Geothermics and Geodynamics, předběžná verze učebního textu.
  • G.F. Davies, Dynamic Earth, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999.
  • W.R. Peltier ed., Mantle Convection: Plate Tectonics and Global Dynamics, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1989.
  • D.L. Turcotte, G. Schubert, Geodynamics: Applications of Continuum Physics to Geological Problems, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1982.

Teaching methods -
Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)

Lecture

Requirements to the exam - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Hana Čížková, Ph.D. (06.10.2017)

Zkouška je ústní, požadavky odpovídají sylabu v rozsahu prezentovaném na přednášce.

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KG (18.01.2007)
Laws of conservation

Basic equations - conservation of mass, momentum and energy, rheological relationship, equation of state, boundary conditions.

Thermal convection in the Earth's mantle

Boussinesq approximation. Dimensionless quantities; Prandtl, Rayleigh and dissipation numbers. Boundary conditions. Static solution. Decomposition of a solenoidal field. 2-D modelling - stream function.

Basic characteristics of thermal convection

Linearized theory - onset of convection. Dependence of the style of the convection on the Rayleigh number. Influence of inner heating, compressibility, pressure- and temperature-dependent rheology and phase transitions.

Rheology and dynamics of subducted lithosphere

Seismic imaging of subducted lithosphere in the mantle. Rheology of subducted slabs. Phase transitions. Numerical modelling of subduction.

 
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