Modelling the core convection using finite element and finite difference methods

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 157, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 124-138

  Chan, K H ^a   Li, Ligang ^a   Liao, Xinhao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Element by element Parallelization; Finite difference method; Finite element method; Numerical modelling; Thermal convection

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

CORE CONVECTION; ELEMENT-BY-ELEMENT PARALLELIZATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

CORE ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODYNAMO; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTER CORE; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 33745812370     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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