Abstract
The coupling between velocity and temperature fields is multiple. The flow acts on the temperature in two ways:
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(1)
It allows heat advection (cf. Chapter 2).
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(2)
It produces a viscous dissipation of heat.
The temperature acts on the flow in two ways:
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(3)
The viscosity is temperature-dependent. The first sections of this chapter consider the effects (2) and (3) only; next, to model an ice-sheet, effect (1) will be added.
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Thermal dilatation produces buoyancy forces, that may allow thermal convection, i.e., flow in a bounded domain without any input of mechanical energy. The next chapter is devoted to this problem.
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Lliboutry, L.A. (1987). Coupled velocity and temperature fields: the ice-sheet problem. In: Very Slow Flows of Solids. Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3563-1_8
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