Fluidity: A fully unstructured anisotropic adaptive mesh computational modeling framework for geodynamics

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Davies, D Rhodri ^a   Wilson, Cian R ^a   Kramer, Stephan C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

benchmark; finite element methods; geodynamics; mantle convection; mesh adaptivity; model validation and verification

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUIDITY; GEODYNAMICS;

BENCHMARK; FINITE ELEMENT; MANTLE CONVECTION; MESH ADAPTIVITY; MODEL VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE CONVECTION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 79958781166     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003551     Document Type: Article

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