Re: Volcanic cooling - Physics anyone?

Glenn Morton (grmorton@psyberlink.net)
Thu, 20 Feb 1997 22:10:32 -0600

At 02:15 PM 2/20/97 -0800, Arthur V. Chadwick wrote:
>It is very clear that cooling rates can be perturbed by many orders of
>magnitude by choosing the conditions appropriately. For example having
>water circulating in the environs of an intrusion can result in several
>orders of magnitude faster cooling than with a static conduction only
>cooling. Most calculations ignore radiation also. I think it is time to
>set this case to rest with some careful bracketing conditions calculations.
>It would be difficult, but I have seen at least one paper in which the water
>circulation was considered, and it completely removed the time element from
>the case being considered.

Radiation should not apply until the heat reaches the surface. Water
circulation can. What is the reference for that paper?

glenn

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