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—Anovel class of nonlinear, visco-elastic rheologies has recently been developed by MÜhlhauset al.(2002a, b). The theory was originally developed for the simulation of large deformation processes including folding and kinking in multi-layered visco-elastic rock. The orientation of the layer surfaces or slip planes in the context of crystallographic slip is determined by the normal vector the so-called director of these surfaces. Here the model (MÜhlhausetal2002a, b) is generalized to include thermal effects; it is shown that in 2-D steady states the director is given by the gradient of the flow potential. The model is applied to anisotropic simple shear where the directors are initially parallel to the shear direction. The relative effects of textural hardening and thermal softening are demonstrated. We then turn to natural convection and compare the time evolution and approximately steady states of isotropic and anisotropic convection for a Rayleigh numberRa =5.64 x l05for aspect ratios of the experimental domain of I and 2, respectively. The isotropic case has a simple steady-state solution, whereas in the orthotropic convection model patterns evolve continuously in the core of the convection cell, which makes only a near-steady condition possible. This near-steady state condition shows well aligned boundary layers, and the number of convection cells which develop appears to be reduced in the orthotropic case. At the moderate Rayleigh numbers explored here we found only minor influences in the change from aspect ratio one to two in the model domain.
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MÜHlhaus, H.B., Moresi, H.B., CADA, M. (2004). Emergent Anisotropy and Flow Alignment in Viscous Rock. In: Donnellan, A., Mora, P., Matsu’ura, M., Yin, Xc. (eds) Computational Earthquake Science Part II. PAGEOPH Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7875-3_24
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