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Consequences of viscous anisotropy in a deforming, two-phase aggregate. Why is porosity-band angle lowered by viscous anisotropy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2015

Yasuko Takei*
Affiliation:
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
Richard F. Katz
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK
*
†Email address for correspondence: ytakei@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Abstract

In laboratory experiments that impose shear deformation on partially molten aggregates of initially uniform porosity, melt segregates into high-porosity sheets (bands in cross-section). The bands emerge at $15^{\circ }$ – $20^{\circ }$ to the shear plane. A model of viscous anisotropy can explain these low angles whereas previous simpler models have failed to do so. The anisotropic model is complex, however, and the reason that it produces low-angle bands has not been understood. Here we show that there are two mechanisms: (i) suppression of the well-known tensile instability, and (ii) creation of a new shear-driven instability. We elucidate these mechanisms using linearised stability analysis in a coordinate system that is aligned with the perturbations. We consider the general case of anisotropy that varies dynamically with deviatoric stress, but approach it by first considering uniform anisotropy that is imposed a priori and showing the difference between static and dynamic cases. We extend the model of viscous anisotropy to include a strengthening in the direction of maximum compressive stress. Our results support the hypothesis that viscous anisotropy is the cause of low band angles in experiments.

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Figure 1. Comparison of numerical solutions to (2.1) and (2.2) with static and dynamic anisotropy. For both calculations, $r_{{\it\beta}}=1,\,R=1,\,r_{{\it\xi}}=5/3,\,{\it\phi}_{0}=0.05,\,{\it\epsilon}|{\it\phi}_{1}(\boldsymbol{X})|\leqslant 0.005$ and the domain is discretised into $600\times 300$ square cells. (a) Porosity field at a strain of 0.75 for a simulation with ${\it\alpha}=1.8$ and ${\it\Theta}=45^{\circ }$ throughout the domain. (b) Porosity field at a strain of 1.25 for a simulation with anisotropy calculated according to (2.3) and (2.4) with ${\it\tau}_{sat}=1,\,{\it\tau}_{offset}=1.5$. (c) Spectral power binned by wavefront angle ${\it\theta}$ to the shear plane (after Katz et al.2006) for the porosity fields shown in (a,b). Each spectrum is normalised by its maximum power. (d,e) Two-dimensional histograms derived from the simulation with dynamic anisotropy at a strain of 1.25 (after Katz & Takei 2013, figure 12). Red dashed lines have a slope given by the ratio of perturbation quantities ${\it\alpha}_{1}/{\it\phi}_{1}$ and ${\it\Theta}_{1}/{\it\phi}_{1}$ from the stability analysis in § 4.

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Figure 2. Schematic diagrams of the coordinate axes and porosity perturbation. (a) The coordinate system $(X,Y)$ for the linearised analysis is taken such that the $X$ axis is parallel to the initial perturbation wavefronts. The shear plane of the base-state simple shear flow is then rotated by an angle ${\it\theta}$. (b) The base-state normal stress ${\it\tau}_{YY}^{(0)}$ is oriented parallel to the initial perturbation wavevector. (c) The base-state shear stress ${\it\tau}_{XY}^{(0)}$ is parallel to the wavefronts.

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Figure 3. Normal stress ${\it\tau}_{YY}^{(0)}$ (tension positive) and shear stress ${\it\tau}_{XY}^{(0)}$ produced by the base-state simple shear flow as functions of angle ${\it\theta}$ between the shear plane and the $X$ axis (figure 2a). We use $r_{{\it\xi}}=5/3$ here and throughout (Takei & Katz 2013). Each panel is computed with a different set $({\it\alpha}_{0},{\it\beta}_{0})$ as labelled above each panel.

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Figure 4. Viscosity components from (4.4) as functions of angle ${\it\theta}$ between the shear plane and the $X$ axis. The curves are computed for the anisotropy parameters (a) ${\it\alpha}_{0}=1$ and ${\it\beta}_{0}=0$, and (b) ${\it\alpha}_{0}=0$ and ${\it\beta}_{0}=1$. The thin black lines represent each component for the isotropic case (${\it\alpha}_{0}={\it\beta}_{0}=0$).

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Figure 5. Characteristics of the static anisotropy model as a function of the angle between porosity perturbations and the shear plane. Each column is for a different value of ${\it\alpha}_{0}$. In all cases, ${\it\beta}_{0}=0$, ${\it\lambda}=27$ and ${\it\phi}_{0}=0.05$. (a–c) Growth rate ${\dot{s}}$ of perturbations ${\it\phi}_{1}$ from (5.3). The heavy line represents the total growth rate. Light lines show the growth rate decomposed into two parts: the contribution from the tensile instability (first term of (5.3)) and that from the shear instability (second term). (d–f) Compliances $\widetilde{\unicode[STIX]{x1D60A}}_{YYYY}^{(0)}$ and $\widetilde{\unicode[STIX]{x1D60A}}_{YYXY}^{(0)}$ in (5.3).

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Table 1. Summary of band formation models: ○, exists; —, does not exist; ▵, is modified.

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Figure 6. Characteristics of the dynamic anisotropy model for various values of $\breve{{\it\alpha}}$ as a function of the angle ${\it\theta}$ between porosity perturbations and the shear plane. In all panels, ${\it\alpha}_{0}=1$, ${\it\beta}_{0}=0$, ${\it\lambda}=27$ and ${\it\phi}_{0}=0.05$. (a) Full growth rate ${\dot{s}}$ from (4.11). (b) Growth rate from (4.11) split into the tensile-instability term (solid lines) and the shear-instability term (dashed lines). (c) Band-normal forcing stress (solid lines; (4.8a)) and band-parallel perturbation stress (dashed lines; (B 5)). Both are divided by ${\it\lambda}{\it\phi}_{1}$. Calculation details are in appendix B. (d,e) The anisotropy perturbations ${\it\alpha}_{1}$ and ${\it\Theta}_{1}$ divided by ${\it\lambda}{\it\phi}_{1}$, calculated according to (B 8a,b).

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Figure 7. The effect of ${\it\beta}$ on the growth rate of porosity perturbations for static (a,b) and dynamic (c–e) anisotropy. (a) Full growth rate ${\dot{s}}$ from (5.3) for ${\it\alpha}_{0}=2$ and various values of ${\it\beta}_{0}$. A single curve for ${\it\alpha}_{0}=0$ and ${\it\beta}_{0}=2$ is also shown. (b) Cases with ${\it\alpha}_{0}=2$ decomposed into tensile and shear parts. Line grey scale has the same meaning as in (a); there is no curve for ${\it\alpha}_{0}=0$. (c) Full growth rate ${\dot{s}}$ from (4.11) for ${\it\alpha}_{0}=\breve{{\it\alpha}}=1$ and various values of ${\it\beta}_{0}=\breve{{\it\beta}}$. A single curve for ${\it\alpha}_{0}=\breve{{\it\alpha}}=0$ and ${\it\beta}_{0}=\breve{{\it\beta}}=1$ is also plotted. (d) Cases with ${\it\alpha}_{0}=\breve{{\it\alpha}}=1$ decomposed into tensile and shear parts. (e) The band-parallel normal stress perturbation ${\it\tau}_{XX}^{(1)}$.

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Figure 8. Characteristics of the power-law isotropic viscosity model as a function of the angle between porosity perturbations and the shear plane. In both panels, $n=5$. (a) Normal strain-rate perturbation, which shows a double peak. (b) Forcing normal stress ${\it\tau}_{YY}^{(f)}$ due to porosity weakening (solid curve), strain-rate weakening associated with $\dot{\unicode[STIX]{x1D626}}_{YY}^{(1)}$ (dashed curve) and strain-rate weakening associated with $\dot{\unicode[STIX]{x1D626}}_{XY}^{(1)}$ (dotted curve). The three curves in (b) sum to the curve in (a).