Temporal Changes of Thermal Structure and Surface Heat Flux of the Earth and Feasibility of Mantle Convection

Abstract

The study is presented to analyze the temporal change of conduction heat transfer in the real earth from a prescribed high uniform temperature based on the thermal radiation cooling of surface boundary. Both the multi-spherical shell structure and the latent heat release due to solidification are taken into consideration. The feasibility and/or the effect of mantle convection on the thermal structure of the earth are discussed in a simplified plane parallel system.