Magma flow through elastic-walled dikes

• Main Authors: Bokhove, O., Woods, A.W., Boer, A. de
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2005
• Subjects: Tolbachik; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/61962

A convection–diffusion model for the averaged flow of a viscous, incompressible magma through an elastic medium is considered. The magma flows through a dike from a magma reservoir to the Earth’s surface; only changes in dike width and velocity over large vertical length scales relative to the chara...