Experiments on fragmentation and thermo-chemical exchanges during planetary core formation

Thermo-chemical convection in Earth’s inner core

simulation and experimental studies for prediction mineral scale formation in oil field during mixing of injection and formation water

abstract: mineral scaling in oil and gas production equipment is one of the most important problem that occurs while water injection and it has been recognized to be a major operational problem. the incompatibility between injected and formation waters may result in inorganic scale precipitation in the equipment and reservoir and then reduction of oil production rate and water injection rate. ...

Metal-silicate Partitioning of Cesium – Implications for Planetary Core Formation

Introduction: We present here preliminary results on partitioning of cesium between metal and silicate at high pressure and temperature. The purpose of these experiments is to develop a data set for the metalsilicate partitioning of cesium, a lithophile element with apparent mantle depletion, to determine whether, and under what conditions, cesium may take on more siderophile behavior. These da...

Discs and Planetary Formation

The formation, structure and evolution of protoplanetary discs is considered. The formation of giant planets within the environment of these models is also discussed.

Metallicity, planetary formation and migration

Recent observations show a clear correlation between the probability of hosting a planet and the metallicity of the parent star. Since radial velocity surveys are biased, however, towards detecting planets with short orbital periods, the probabilitymetallicity correlation could merely reflect a dependence of migration rates on metallicity. We investigated the possibility, but find no basis to s...