Publications

  1. K. Vilella and F. Deschamps, Heat-blanketed convection and its implications for the continental lithosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, accepted, (2021).

  2. K. Vilella, T. Bodin, C. E. Boukaré, F. Deschamps, J. Badro, M. D. Ballmer, Y. Li, Constraints on the composition and temperature of LLSVPs from seismic properties of lower mantle minerals, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 554, 116685 (2021)   [doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116685] [PDF].

  3. T. Steinke, D. van Sliedregt, K. Vilella, W. van der Wal, B. Vermeersen, Can a combination of convective and magmatic heat transport in the mantle explain Io's volcanic pattern?, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, accepted, 125, (2020)   [doi: 10.1029/2020JE006521] [PDF].

  4. K. Vilella, G. Choblet, W. E. Tsao, F. Deschamps, Tidally heated convection and the occurrence of melting in icy satellites: application to Europa, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125, e2019JE006248 (2020)   [doi: 10.1029/2019JE006248] [PDF].

  5. Y. Li, K. Vilella, F. Deschamps, L. Zhao, P. J. Tackley, Effects of iron spin transition on the structure and stability of large primordial reservoirs in Earth's lower mantle, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 5918-5928 (2018)   [doi: 10.1029/2018GL078125] [PDF].

  6. K. Vilella, A. Limare, C. Jaupart, C. G. Farnetani, L. Fourel and E. Kaminski, Fundamentals of laminar free convection in internally heated fluids at values of the Rayleigh-Roberts number up to 109, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 846, 966-998 (2018)  [doi: 10.1017/jfm.2018.316] [PDF].

  7. K. Vilella and F. Deschamps, Temperature and heat flux scaling laws for isoviscous, infinite Prandtl number mixed heating convection, Geophysical Journal International, 214, 265-281 (2018)  [doi: 10.1093/gji/ggy138] [PDF].

  8. K. Vilella and F. Deschamps, Thermal convection as a possible mechanism for the origin of polygonal structures on Pluto's surface, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 122, 1056-1076 (2017)  [doi: 10.1002/2016JE005215] [PDF].

  9. K. Vilella and E. Kaminski, Fully determined scaling laws for volumetrically heated convective systems, a tool for assessing habitability of exoplanets, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 266, 18-28 (2017)  [doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2017.02.001] [PDF].

  10. K. Vilella, Modélisation théorique et numérique de la convection thermique, applications aux manteaux planétaires, Ph. D. Thesis, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris (2015) [PDF].

  11. A. Limare, K. Vilella, E. Di Giuseppe, C. G. Farnetani, E. Kaminski, E. Surducan, V. Surducan, C. Neamtu, L. Fourel, C. Jaupart, Microwave-heating laboratory experiments for planetary mantle convection, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 777, 50 (2015)  [doi: 10.1017/jfm.2015.347] [PDF].

  12. K. Vilella, S. H. Shim, C. G. Farnetani and J. Badro, Spin state transition and partitioning of iron: effects on mantle dynamics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 417, 57 (2015)  [doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.02.009] [PDF].

  13. A. Siria, T. Barois, K. Vilella, S. Perisanu, A. Ayari, D. Guillot, S. T. Purcell and P. Poncharal, Electron Fluctuation Induced Resonance Broadening in Nano Electromechanical Systems: The Origin of Shear Force in Vacuum, Nano Letters, 12,  3551 (2012)  [doi: 10.1021/nl301618p] [PDF].

Proceedings

  1. A. Limare, L. Fourel, E. Surducan, C. Neamtu, V. Surducan, K. Vilella, C. G. Farnetani, E. Kaminski and C. Jaupart, Microwave-based, internally-heated convection: New perspectives for the heterogeneous case, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1700 , 040001 (2015)  [doi: 10.1063/1.4938436] [PDF].

  2. A. Limare, E. Surducan, V. Surducan, C. Neamtu, E. di Giuseppe, K. Vilella, C. G. Farnetani, E. Kaminski, and C. Jaupart,  Microwave-based laboratory experiments for internally-heated mantle convection, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1565, 14 (2013)   [doi: 10.1063/1.4833687] [PDF].