Multigrid-based simulation code for mantle convection in spherical shell using Yin-Yang grid

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 171, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 19-32

  Kameyama, Masanori ^a   Kageyama, Akira ^b   Sato, Tetsuya ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Local time stepping; Mantle convection; Multigrid method; Pseudo compressibility; Yin Yang grid

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EARTH SCIENCES; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRODYNAMICS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY;

LOCAL TIME-STEPPING; MANTLE CONVECTION; MULTIGRID METHOD; PSEUDO-COMPRESSIBILITY; YIN-YANG GRID;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

ALGORITHM; BENCHMARKING; MANTLE CONVECTION; SIMULATION; SPHERE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 55649094185     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.06.025     Document Type: Article

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