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Constraining the melting temperature of iron under Earth's inner core conditions is crucial for understanding core dynamics and planetary evolution. Here, we develop a deep potential (DP) model for iron that explicitly incorporates…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Fulun Wu , Cai-Zhuang Wang , Kai-Ming Ho , Shunqing Wu , Renata M. Wentzcovitch , Yang Sun

The amount and spatial pattern of heat extracted from cores of terrestrial planets is ultimately controlled by the thermal structure of the lower rocky mantle. Using the most common model to tackle this problem, a rapidly rotating and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-26 Wieland Dietrich , Kumiko Hori , Johannes Wicht

We used a thermal model of an iron core to calculate magnetodynamo evolution in Earth-mass rocky planets to determine the sensitivity of dynamo lifetime and intensity to planets with different mantle tectonic regimes, surface temperatures,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Joost van Summeren , Eric Gaidos , Clinton P. Conrad

Using models of the Earth's core evolution and the length of the day observations the change of the dimensionless geodynamo parameters is considered. The evolutionary model includes cooling of the liquid adiabatic core, growing solid core,…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 M. Yu. Reshetnyak

The Cassini state equilibrium associated with the precession of the Moon predicts that the mantle, fluid core and solid inner core precess at different angles. We present estimates of the dissipation from viscous friction associated with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-04 Christopher Stys , Mathieu Dumberry

The Earth's inner core plays a vital role in the dynamics of our planet and is itself strongly exposed to dynamic processes as evidenced by a complex pattern of elastic structure. To gain deeper insight into the nature of these processes we…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerd Steinle-Neumann , Lars Stixrude , R. E. Cohen

Earth's magnetic field is generated by the liquid outer core and sensitively depends on the thermal conductivity of the core. The dominant component of the Earth's core is Fe and Ni. However, current estimates on FeNi mixtures have not been…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Wei-Jie Li , Zi Li , Yan-Bo Shi , Xian-Tu He , Cong Wang , Ping Zhang

The transport properties (electrical resistivity, thermal conductivity, and viscosity) of iron-hydrogen alloys are of great significance in the stability and evolution of planetary magnetic fields. Here, we investigate the thermal transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-28 Cong Liu , Ronald Cohen

The heat flux across the core-mantle boundary (QCMB) is the key parameter to understand the Earth/s thermal history and evolution. Mineralogical constraints of the QCMB require deciphering contributions of the lattice and radiative…

The thermodynamic evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) in the inner corona (< 1.5 R$_{sun}$) is not yet completely understood. In this work, we study the evolution of thermodynamic properties of a CME core observed in the inner corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Jyoti Sheoran , Vaibhav Pant , Ritesh Patel , Dipankar Banerjee

We present a thermal evolution model coupled with a Henyey solver to study the circumstances under which a rocky planet could potentially host a dynamo in its liquid iron core and/or magma ocean. We calculate the evolution of planet thermal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Jisheng Zhang , Leslie Rogers

The construction of models for the internal constitution and the temporal evolution of large planetesimals, the parent bodies of chondrites, requires information on the heat conductivity of the complex mixture of minerals and iron metal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Stephan Henke , Hans-Peter Gail , Mario Trieloff

Convection in the liquid outer core of the Earth is driven by thermal and chemical perturbations. The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of double-diffusive convection on magnetic field generation by means of 3D global…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Théo Tassin , Thomas Gastine , Alexandre Fournier

The Earth's magnetic field is generated by a dynamo in the outer core and is crucial for shielding our planet from harmful radiation. Despite the established importance of the core-mantle boundary heat flux as driver for the dynamo, open…

Earth's fast rotation imposes the Taylor-Proudman Constraint that opposes fluid motion across an imaginary cylindrical surface called the Tangent Cylinder (TC) obtained by extruding the equatorial perimeter of the solid inner core along the…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 Rishav Agrawal , Martin Holdsworth , Alban Pothérat

We have numerically studied the thermal evolution of various-mass terrestrial planets in habitable zones, focusing on duration of dynamo activity to generate their intrinsic magnetic fields, which may be one of key factors in habitability…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chihiro Tachinami , Hiroki Senshu , Shigeru Ida

The electronic state and transport properties of hot dense iron are of the utmost importance to geophysics. Combining the density functional and dynamical mean field theories we study the impact of electron correlations on electrical and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 L. V. Pourovskii , J. Mravlje , A. Georges , S. I. Simak , I. A. Abrikosov

Light elements in the iron-rich core of the Earth are important indicators for the evolution of our planet. Their amount and distribution, and the temperature in the core, are essential for understanding how the core and the mantle interact…

Geophysics · Physics 2008-07-02 A. Aitta