The spiral grid: A new approach to discretize the sphere and its application to mantle convection

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Hüttig, Christian ^a   Stemmer, Kai ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convection; Mantle; Spherical geometry; Spiral grid; Voronoi cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 55649091086     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001581     Document Type: Article

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