Viscosities of hcp iron alloys under Earth's inner core conditions

• Main Authors: Xu, Yunfan, He, Yu, Sun, Shichuan, Zhang, Wei, Dai, Weiru, Kim, Duck Young, Li, Heping
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2025
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences; Earth’s inner core; High pressure and high temperature
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/183114
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Viscosity is critical for controlling the dynamics and evolution of the Earth's inner core (IC). The viscosities of hexagonal close-packed (hcp) and body-centred cubic (bcc) Fe were studied experimentally and theoretically under Earth's core conditions. However, Earth's inner core is...