Using subdivision surfaces and adaptive surface simplification algorithms for modeling chemical heterogeneities in geophysical flows

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Schmalzl, Jörg ^a   Loddoch, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geochemical convection; Mantle convection; Numerical method; Tracer method

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249116487     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GC000578     Document Type: Article

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