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

Date

Authors

Davies, Rhodri

Wilson, Cian R.

Kramer, Stephan C.

Publisher

American Geophysical Union

Abstract

We present a new computational modeling framework, Fluidity, for application to a range of two- and three-dimensional geodynamic problems, with the focus here on mantle convection. The approach centers upon a finite element discretization on unstructured

Keywords

Keywords: benchmark; Finite Element; Mantle convection; Mesh adaptivity; model validation and verification; Adaptive algorithms; Anisotropy; Finite element method; Fluidity; Geodynamics; Three dimensional; algorithm; anisotropy; benchmarking; computer simulation; f benchmark; finite element methods; geodynamics; mantle convection; mesh adaptivity; model validation and verification

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/65111

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. G3

Type

Journal article

Access Statement

Open Access

DOI

10.1029/2011GC003551

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