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Since the mechanical properties of lava change over time, lava flows represent a challenge for physically based modeling. This change is ruled by a temperature field which needs to be modeled. MAGFLOW Cellular Automata (CA) model was developed for physically based simulations of lava flows in near real-time. We introduced an algorithm based on the Monte Carlo approach to solve the anisotropic problem. As transition rule of CA, a steady-state solution of Navier-Stokes equations was adopted in the case of isothermal laminar pressure-driven Bingham fluid. For the cooling mechanism, we consider only the radiative heat loss from the surface of the flow and the change of the temperature due to mixture of lavas between cells with different temperatures. The model was applied to reproduce a real lava flow that occurred during the 2004–2005 Etna eruption. The simulations were computed using three different empirical relationships between viscosity and temperature.
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Study performed with financial support from the ETNA project (DPC-INGV 2004–2006 contract). This work was developed in the frame of the TecnoLab, the Laboratory for the Technological Advance in Volcano Geophysics organized by DIEES-UNICT and INGV-CT.
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Del Negro, C., Fortuna, L., Herault, A. et al. Simulations of the 2004 lava flow at Etna volcano using the magflow cellular automata model. Bull Volcanol 70, 805–812 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-007-0168-8
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