High accuracy mantle convection simulation through modern numerical methods

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-29

  Kronbichler, Martin ^a   Heister, Timo ^b   Bangerth, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics: convection currents, and mantle plumes; Non linear differential equations; Numerical approximations and analysis; Numerical solutions

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; CONVECTION CURRENTS; DISCRETIZATIONS; EARTH'S CORE; EARTH'S MANTLE; LINEAR SOLVER; MANTLE CONVECTION; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL COSTS; NUMERICAL SOFTWARE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPEN-SOURCE CODE; STATE OF THE ART; TRILINOS; VALIDATION TEST;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE (PLANETARY); EQUATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL METHOD; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 84866356017     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05609.x     Document Type: Article

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