A Multiscale Model of Partial Melts 1: Effective Equations

Abstract

In this paper a model for partial melts is constructed using two-scale homogenization theory. While this technique is well known to the mathematics and materials communities, it is relatively novel to problems in the solid Earth. This approach begins with a grain scale model of the medium, coarsening it into a macroscopic one. The emergent model is in good agreement with previous work, including D. McKenzie's, and serves as verification. This methodology also yields a series of Stokes problems whose solutions provide constitutive relations for permeability and viscosity. A numerical investigation of these relations appears in a companion paper.

55 pages. Submitted to JGR Solid Earth

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