@inproceedings{80965fcde5db4b2ba2cf61009bfcfa4d,
title = "Exploding rocks",
abstract = "This modelling is motivated by recent experimental work, in which a vertical column of rock under large pressure is suddenly depressurised, so that it explodes, in a sequence of horizontal fractures that forms from the top down. The resulting blocks are lifted off and ejected. This experiment provides a framework for understanding the way in which catastrophic explosion can occur, and is motivated by the corresponding phenomenon of magmatic explosion during Vulcanian eruptions. We summarise a theoretical model built to describe these results, and show that it is capable of describing both the primary sequence of fracturing, and the secondary intra-block fracturing.",
keywords = "Fracturing, Magma fragmentation, Mathematical modelling, Theoretical model, Vulcanian eruptions",
author = "McGuinness, {M. J.} and Fowler, {A. C.} and B. Scheu and Lee, {W. T.}",
year = "2009",
month = sep,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1063/1.3241365",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780735407091",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "AIP Publishing",
pages = "1442--1445",
editor = "Simos, {Theodore E.} and George Psihoyios and Ch. Tsitouras",
booktitle = "Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics - International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2009",
address = "United States",
note = "International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2009, ICNAAM-2009 ; Conference date: 18-09-2009 Through 22-09-2009",
}