Christian Huber

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on recent claims that magma columns within the Earth's crust are mostly kept at high crystallinity (mush zones) and that the dynamics within those mush columns, albeit modulated by external factors (e.g., regional stress field, rheology of the crust, pre-existing tectonic structure), play an important role in controlling how magmas evolve, degas, and ultimately erupt.

TL;DR: In this article, a lattice Boltzmann method was developed to couple thermal convection and pure-substance melting, and the transition from conduction-dominated heat transfer to fully-developed convection was analyzed and scaling laws and previous numerical results were reproduced by their numerical method.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the most viscous of all crustal magmas, such as crystal-rich dacitic/rhyolitic ignimbrites and large silicic plutons, are surprisingly homogeneous.

TL;DR: This work investigates the fluid dynamics that controls the transport of the MVP in crystal-rich and crystal-poor magmas, and shows how the interplay between capillary stresses and the viscosity contrast between the MVP and the host melt results in a counterintuitive dynamics, whereby the MVP tends to migrate efficiently incry-rich parts of a magma reservoir and accumulate in crystals-poor regions.

TL;DR: In this article, a generalized geochemical model tracking the evolution of trace elements in a magma reservoir concurrently experiencing crystallization and extraction of interstitial melt is presented, which allows for various dependencies between crystallinity, partition coefficients for variably compatible and/or incompatible elements, and melt extraction efficiency.