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ASPECT 3.1.0-pre

  • GitHub
  • ASPECT
  • User Guide
    • Introduction
    • Assumptions and methods
      • Basic equations
        • A comment on adiabatic heating
        • Boundary conditions
        • Two-dimensional models
        • Comments on the final set of equations
      • Coefficients
        • Coefficient self-consistency
        • Coefficient averaging
      • Dimensional or non-dimensionalized equations?
        • Years or seconds?
      • Static or dynamic pressure?
      • Pressure normalization
      • Initial conditions and the adiabatic pressure/temperature
      • Compositional fields
      • Constitutive laws
      • Numerical methods
      • Approximate equations
        • The anelastic liquid approximation (ALA)
        • The truncated anelastic liquid approximation (TALA)
        • The Boussinesq approximation (BA)
        • The isothermal/isentropic compression approximation (ICA)
      • Choosing a formulation
        • Mass conservation approximation
        • Temperature equation approximation
        • Approximation of the buoyancy term
        • Reference state: The adiabatic profile
        • Combined formulations
      • Advection Stabilization
        • SUPG Stabilization
        • Entropy viscosity
      • Free surface calculations
        • Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian implementation
        • Free surface stabilization
      • Calculations with melt transport
      • Nullspace removal
      • Particles
      • Stokes solver
      • Geometric Multigrid
      • Choosing a nonlinear Stokes solver
    • Installation
      • Docker Container
        • Installing Docker and downloading the ASPECT image
        • Running ASPECT models
        • Developing ASPECT within a container
      • Virtual Machine
        • Installing VM software and setting up the virtual machine
        • Running ASPECT models
      • Local installation
        • System prerequisites
        • Using candi to compile dependencies
        • Installing FastScape-fortran
        • Obtaining ASPECT and initial configuration
        • Compiling ASPECT
        • Building the documentation
    • Running ASPECT
      • First steps
      • Overview
      • Selecting between 2d and 3d
      • Debug or optimized mode
      • Visualizing results
        • Visualization the graphical output using VisIt
        • Visualizing statistical data
        • Large data issues for parallel computations
      • Checkpoint/restart support
      • Making ASPECT run faster
        • Debug vs. optimized mode
        • Adjusting solver tolerances
        • Adjusting solver preconditioner tolerances
        • Using lower order elements for the temperature/compositional discretization
        • Limiting postprocessing
        • Switching off pressure normalization
        • Regularizing models with large coefficient variation
        • Using multithreading
        • File system I/O
      • Input parameter files
        • The structure of parameter files
        • Categories of parameters
        • How to write Function expressions in parameter files
        • Compatibility of input files with newer ASPECT versions
    • Cookbooks
      • How to set up computations
      • Simple setups
        • Convection in a 2d box
        • Convection in a 3d box
        • Convection in a box with prescribed, variable velocity boundary conditions
        • Using passive and active compositional fields
        • Using particles
        • Using a free surface
        • Using a free surface in a model with a crust
        • Averaging material properties
        • Prescribed internal velocity constraints
        • Prescribing internal velocity constraints with ASCII files
        • Artificial viscosity smoothing
        • Tracking finite strain
        • Reading in compositional initial composition files generated with geomIO
        • Using lazy expression syntax for if-else-statements in function expressions
        • Convection in a 2d box with a phase transition
        • Visualizing phase diagrams
        • Plume in a 2D chunk
        • Fastscape Eroding Box
        • Introduction to ASPECT
      • Geophysical setups
        • Simple convection in a quarter of a 2d annulus
        • Simple convection in a spherical 3d shell
        • Postprocessing spherical 3D convection
        • 3D convection with an Earth-like initial condition
        • Prescribing Velocities from Global Convection Models as Boundary Conditions in Regional Models
        • Using reconstructed surface velocities by GPlates
        • 2D compressible convection with a reference profile and material properties from BurnMan
        • Convection using a pressure–temperature look-up table and the rheology of Steinberger and Calderwood (2006)
        • Thermochemical plume model using multiple P–T look-up tables
        • Reproducing rheology of Morency and Doin, 2004
        • Crustal deformation
        • Continental extension
        • Inner core convection
        • Lower crust flow with an obstacle
        • Melt migration in a 2D mantle convection model
        • Melt migration in a 2D mid-ocean ridge model
        • Sublithospheric convection beneath an oceanic plate with a grain size dependent rheology
        • Using the World Builder to model the thermal structure of oceanic transform faults
        • Kinematically-driven 2d oceanic subduction
        • Rift interaction in brittle-ductile coupled systems
        • Simplified Subduction Model with Parameterized Solid-Fluid Reactions
        • Using Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics to Drive Phase Transformations
        • Mantle convection with continents in an annulus
        • Viscous inclusions under simple and pure shear
        • Subduction initiation from Matsumoto and Tomoda (1983)
        • Van Keken 2008 corner flow recreation
        • Two-dimensional cylindrical annulus visualization
        • Mantle convection using tomography data
        • Olivine Fabric Developments Under Simple Shear
        • Sinking of anhydrite blocks within a Newtonian salt diapir
        • Anisotropic viscosity
        • CPO induced anisotropic viscosity
        • Future Cookbooks
      • Setups for teaching
        • Running a geodynamic model
        • Convective and conductive heat flow: Cooling of oceanic lithosphere
        • Onset of convection
        • Magnetic lineations on the sea floor
    • Benchmarks
      • Running benchmarks that require code
      • Onset of convection benchmark
      • The van Keken thermochemical composition benchmark
      • Computation of the van Keken Problem with the Volume-of-Fluid Interface Tracking Method
      • The Bunge et al. mantle convection experiments
      • The Blankenbach convection benchmark
      • The King compressible convection benchmark
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability
        • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability benchmark
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a free surface
      • Polydiapirism
      • The sinking block benchmark
        • The sinking block benchmark files
      • The SolCx Stokes benchmark
      • The SolKz Stokes benchmark
      • Tan & Gurnis, 2007
      • The “inclusion” Stokes benchmark
      • The Burstedde variable viscosity benchmark
      • The slab detachment benchmark
      • The hollow sphere benchmark
      • Particle distribution benchmark
      • Particle integration scheme benchmark
      • The 2D annulus benchmark
      • Finite strain benchmark
      • The rigid shear benchmark
      • The “Stokes’ law” benchmark
      • Viscosity grooves benchmark
      • Latent heat benchmark
      • The 2D cylindrical shell benchmarks by Davies et al.
      • The Crameri et al. benchmarks
      • The solitary wave benchmark
      • 1D test for water solubility
      • Benchmarks for operator splitting
      • The Tosi et al. benchmarks
      • Layered flow with viscosity contrast
      • Donea & Huerta 2D box geometry benchmark
      • Advection stabilization benchmarks
        • Advection Benchmarks
      • Advection in Annulus
      • Diffusion of Hill
      • Yamauchi & Takei anelastic shear wave velocity-temperature conversion benchmark
      • Thin shell gravity benchmark
      • Thick shell gravity benchmark
      • 2D Lithosphere flexure benchmark with infill
      • Gravity field generated by mantle density variations
      • Buiter et al. 2008, JGR
      • Brittle thrust wedges benchmark
      • Compressibility formulation benchmarks
      • Entropy adiabat benchmark
      • Geoid Spectral Comparison
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Nonlinear Channel Flow
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Spiegelman et at. (2016)
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Tosi et at. (2015)
      • The NSinker benchmark
      • The Spherical Shell NSinker benchmark
      • Time dependent annulus benchmark
      • Magmatic shear bands
      • The viscoelastic plastic shear bands benchmarks
        • Visco(elastic)-plastic shear bands after Gerya (2019)
        • The viscoelastplastic shear bands benchmark
      • Grain Size Pinned State
      • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
      • The viscoelastic sheared torsion benchmark
      • The viscoelastic relaxation benchmark
      • The viscoelastoplastic simple shear benchmark
      • The bending beam benchmark
      • Viscoelastic plate flexure
      • Viscoelastic half-space loading
      • Viscous half-space loading
      • Zhong et al., 1993
    • Extending and contributing
      • Contributing to ASPECT
      • The idea of plugins and the SimulatorAccess and Introspection classes
      • How to write a plugin
      • How to write a cookbook
        • Parameter file
        • Plugins and additional files
        • Adding a section to the manual
        • MyST Quick reference
      • Available plugin types
        • Material models
        • Heating models
        • Geometry models
        • Gravity models
        • Initial conditions for temperature and composition
        • Velocity and traction boundary conditions
        • Temperature and compositional boundary conditions
        • Boundary heat flux
        • Postprocessors: Evaluating the solution after each time step
        • Visualization postprocessors
        • Mesh refinement criteria
        • Criteria for terminating a simulation
      • Compatibility of plugins
      • Extending ASPECT through signals
      • Extending the basic solver
      • Testing ASPECT
        • Running tests
        • Writing tests
        • Test properties
      • Benchmarking run time
      • Future plans for ASPECT
      • Release Tasklist
    • Finding answers to questions
  • Parameter Documentation
    • Global parameters
    • Adiabatic conditions model
    • Boundary composition model
    • Boundary convective heating model
    • Boundary fluid pressure model
    • Boundary heat flux model
    • Boundary temperature model
    • Boundary traction model
    • Boundary velocity model
    • Checkpointing
    • Compositional fields
    • Discretization
    • Formulation
    • Geometry model
    • Gravity model
    • Heating model
    • Initial composition model
    • Initial temperature model
    • Material model
    • Melt settings
    • Mesh deformation
    • Mesh refinement
    • Nullspace removal
    • Particles
    • Particles 2
    • Postprocess
    • Prescribed Stokes solution
    • Prescribed solution
    • Solver parameters
    • Temperature field
    • Termination criteria
    • Time stepping
    • Volume of Fluid
  • Developer Documentation
  • Authors
  • References
  • Page index
    • category:benchmark (69)
      • Advection stabilization benchmarks
        • Advection Benchmarks
      • Advection in Annulus
      • The 2D annulus benchmark
      • The Blankenbach convection benchmark
      • Buiter et al. 2008, JGR
      • Brittle thrust wedges benchmark
      • The Burstedde variable viscosity benchmark
      • Compressibility formulation benchmarks
      • The Crameri et al. benchmarks
      • The 2D cylindrical shell benchmarks by Davies et al.
      • Diffusion of Hill
      • Donea & Huerta 2D box geometry benchmark
      • Entropy adiabat benchmark
      • Finite strain benchmark
      • Viscoelastic half-space loading
      • Viscous half-space loading
      • Geoid Spectral Comparison
      • Grain Size Pinned State
      • Gravity field generated by mantle density variations
      • Thick shell gravity benchmark
      • Thin shell gravity benchmark
      • The hollow sphere benchmark
      • The “inclusion” Stokes benchmark
      • 2D Lithosphere flexure benchmark with infill
      • The King compressible convection benchmark
      • Layered flow with viscosity contrast
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Nonlinear Channel Flow
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Spiegelman et at. (2016)
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Tosi et at. (2015)
      • The NSinker benchmark
      • The Spherical Shell NSinker benchmark
      • Onset of convection benchmark
      • Benchmarks for operator splitting
      • Particle distribution benchmark
      • Particle integration scheme benchmark
      • Polydiapirism
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability benchmark
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability
        • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability benchmark
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a free surface
      • The rigid shear benchmark
      • Magmatic shear bands
      • The sinking block benchmark files
      • The sinking block benchmark
        • The sinking block benchmark files
      • The slab detachment benchmark
      • The SolCx Stokes benchmark
      • The solitary wave benchmark
      • The SolKz Stokes benchmark
      • 1D test for water solubility
      • Tan & Gurnis, 2007
      • Time dependent annulus benchmark
      • The Tosi et al. benchmarks
      • The bending beam benchmark
      • Visco(elastic)-plastic shear bands after Gerya (2019)
      • The viscoelastplastic shear bands benchmark
      • The viscoelastoplastic simple shear benchmark
      • Viscoelastic plate flexure
      • The viscoelastic relaxation benchmark
      • The viscoelastic sheared torsion benchmark
      • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
      • Viscosity grooves benchmark
      • Yamauchi & Takei anelastic shear wave velocity-temperature conversion benchmark
      • Zhong et al., 1993
      • The Bunge et al. mantle convection experiments
      • Convection in a 2d box with a phase transition
      • Latent heat benchmark
      • The “Stokes’ law” benchmark
      • Computation of the van Keken Problem with the Volume-of-Fluid Interface Tracking Method
      • The van Keken thermochemical composition benchmark
      • Van Keken 2008 corner flow recreation
    • category:cookbook (62)
      • Two-dimensional cylindrical annulus visualization
      • CPO induced anisotropic viscosity
      • Rift interaction in brittle-ductile coupled systems
      • Anisotropic viscosity
      • The Bunge et al. mantle convection experiments
      • 2D compressible convection with a reference profile and material properties from BurnMan
      • Convection in a 2d box with a phase transition
      • The active case with reactions.
      • The active case.
      • Using active particles.
      • The passive case.
      • The passive case with particles
      • Continental extension
      • Running a geodynamic model
      • Convection in a 2d box
      • Convection in a 3d box
      • Crustal deformation
      • Olivine Fabric Developments Under Simple Shear
      • Fastscape Eroding Box
      • Tracking finite strain
      • Using a free surface
      • Using a free surface in a model with a crust
      • Reading in compositional initial composition files generated with geomIO
      • Melt migration in a 2D mantle convection model
      • Prescribing Velocities from Global Convection Models as Boundary Conditions in Regional Models
      • Using reconstructed surface velocities by GPlates
      • Sublithospheric convection beneath an oceanic plate with a grain size dependent rheology
      • Convective and conductive heat flow: Cooling of oceanic lithosphere
      • Viscous inclusions under simple and pure shear
      • 3D convection with an Earth-like initial condition
      • Inner core convection
      • Kinematically-driven 2d oceanic subduction
      • Latent heat benchmark
      • Lower crust flow with an obstacle
      • Magnetic lineations on the sea floor
      • Mantle convection with continents in an annulus
      • Melt migration in a 2D mid-ocean ridge model
      • Reproducing rheology of Morency and Doin, 2004
      • Thermochemical plume model using multiple P–T look-up tables
      • Using lazy expression syntax for if-else-statements in function expressions
      • Onset of convection
      • Using Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics to Drive Phase Transformations
      • Convection in a box with prescribed, variable velocity boundary conditions
      • Plume in a 2D chunk
      • Prescribed internal velocity constraints
      • Prescribing internal velocity constraints with ASCII files
      • Postprocessing spherical 3D convection
      • Simple convection in a quarter of a 2d annulus
      • Artificial viscosity smoothing
      • Simple convection in a spherical 3d shell
      • Averaging material properties
      • Sinking of anhydrite blocks within a Newtonian salt diapir
      • Convection using a pressure–temperature look-up table and the rheology of Steinberger and Calderwood (2006)
      • The “Stokes’ law” benchmark
      • Subduction initiation from Matsumoto and Tomoda (1983)
      • Simplified Subduction Model with Parameterized Solid-Fluid Reactions
      • Mantle convection using tomography data
      • Using the World Builder to model the thermal structure of oceanic transform faults
      • Computation of the van Keken Problem with the Volume-of-Fluid Interface Tracking Method
      • The van Keken thermochemical composition benchmark
      • Van Keken 2008 corner flow recreation
      • Visualizing phase diagrams
    • feature:2d (101)
      • Advection stabilization benchmarks
        • Advection Benchmarks
      • Advection in Annulus
      • The 2D annulus benchmark
      • The Blankenbach convection benchmark
      • Buiter et al. 2008, JGR
      • Brittle thrust wedges benchmark
      • The Burstedde variable viscosity benchmark
      • Compressibility formulation benchmarks
      • The Crameri et al. benchmarks
      • The 2D cylindrical shell benchmarks by Davies et al.
      • Diffusion of Hill
      • Donea & Huerta 2D box geometry benchmark
      • Entropy adiabat benchmark
      • Finite strain benchmark
      • Viscoelastic half-space loading
      • Viscous half-space loading
      • Grain Size Pinned State
      • The “inclusion” Stokes benchmark
      • 2D Lithosphere flexure benchmark with infill
      • The King compressible convection benchmark
      • Layered flow with viscosity contrast
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Nonlinear Channel Flow
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Spiegelman et at. (2016)
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Tosi et at. (2015)
      • The NSinker benchmark
      • Onset of convection benchmark
      • Benchmarks for operator splitting
      • Particle distribution benchmark
      • Particle integration scheme benchmark
      • Polydiapirism
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability
        • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability benchmark
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a free surface
      • The rigid shear benchmark
      • Magmatic shear bands
      • The sinking block benchmark
        • The sinking block benchmark files
      • The slab detachment benchmark
      • The SolCx Stokes benchmark
      • The solitary wave benchmark
      • The SolKz Stokes benchmark
      • 1D test for water solubility
      • Tan & Gurnis, 2007
      • Time dependent annulus benchmark
      • The Tosi et al. benchmarks
      • The bending beam benchmark
      • Visco(elastic)-plastic shear bands after Gerya (2019)
      • The viscoelastplastic shear bands benchmark
      • The viscoelastoplastic simple shear benchmark
      • Viscoelastic plate flexure
      • The viscoelastic relaxation benchmark
      • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
      • Viscosity grooves benchmark
      • Yamauchi & Takei anelastic shear wave velocity-temperature conversion benchmark
      • Zhong et al., 1993
      • Two-dimensional cylindrical annulus visualization
      • Anisotropic viscosity
      • The Bunge et al. mantle convection experiments
      • 2D compressible convection with a reference profile and material properties from BurnMan
      • Convection in a 2d box with a phase transition
      • The active case with reactions.
      • The active case.
      • Using active particles.
      • The passive case.
      • The passive case with particles
      • Continental extension
      • Running a geodynamic model
      • Convection in a 2d box
      • Crustal deformation
      • Tracking finite strain
      • Using a free surface
      • Using a free surface in a model with a crust
      • Reading in compositional initial composition files generated with geomIO
      • Melt migration in a 2D mantle convection model
      • Using reconstructed surface velocities by GPlates
      • Sublithospheric convection beneath an oceanic plate with a grain size dependent rheology
      • Convective and conductive heat flow: Cooling of oceanic lithosphere
      • Viscous inclusions under simple and pure shear
      • Kinematically-driven 2d oceanic subduction
      • Latent heat benchmark
      • Magnetic lineations on the sea floor
      • Mantle convection with continents in an annulus
      • Melt migration in a 2D mid-ocean ridge model
      • Reproducing rheology of Morency and Doin, 2004
      • Thermochemical plume model using multiple P–T look-up tables
      • Using lazy expression syntax for if-else-statements in function expressions
      • Onset of convection
      • Using Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics to Drive Phase Transformations
      • Convection in a box with prescribed, variable velocity boundary conditions
      • Plume in a 2D chunk
      • Prescribed internal velocity constraints
      • Prescribing internal velocity constraints with ASCII files
      • Simple convection in a quarter of a 2d annulus
      • Artificial viscosity smoothing
      • Averaging material properties
      • Sinking of anhydrite blocks within a Newtonian salt diapir
      • Convection using a pressure–temperature look-up table and the rheology of Steinberger and Calderwood (2006)
      • Simplified Subduction Model with Parameterized Solid-Fluid Reactions
      • Mantle convection using tomography data
      • Computation of the van Keken Problem with the Volume-of-Fluid Interface Tracking Method
      • The van Keken thermochemical composition benchmark
      • Van Keken 2008 corner flow recreation
      • Visualizing phase diagrams
    • feature:3d (26)
      • Viscoelastic half-space loading
      • Viscous half-space loading
      • Geoid Spectral Comparison
      • Gravity field generated by mantle density variations
      • Thick shell gravity benchmark
      • Thin shell gravity benchmark
      • The hollow sphere benchmark
      • The NSinker benchmark
      • The Spherical Shell NSinker benchmark
      • The viscoelastic sheared torsion benchmark
      • CPO induced anisotropic viscosity
      • Rift interaction in brittle-ductile coupled systems
      • Convection in a 3d box
      • Crustal deformation
      • Olivine Fabric Developments Under Simple Shear
      • Fastscape Eroding Box
      • Prescribing Velocities from Global Convection Models as Boundary Conditions in Regional Models
      • Using reconstructed surface velocities by GPlates
      • 3D convection with an Earth-like initial condition
      • Inner core convection
      • Lower crust flow with an obstacle
      • Postprocessing spherical 3D convection
      • Simple convection in a spherical 3d shell
      • The “Stokes’ law” benchmark
      • Subduction initiation from Matsumoto and Tomoda (1983)
      • Using the World Builder to model the thermal structure of oceanic transform faults
    • feature:analytical-solution (36)
      • Advection in Annulus
      • The 2D annulus benchmark
      • The Burstedde variable viscosity benchmark
      • Compressibility formulation benchmarks
      • The Crameri et al. benchmarks
      • Diffusion of Hill
      • Donea & Huerta 2D box geometry benchmark
      • Finite strain benchmark
      • Viscoelastic half-space loading
      • Viscous half-space loading
      • Grain Size Pinned State
      • Thick shell gravity benchmark
      • Thin shell gravity benchmark
      • The hollow sphere benchmark
      • The “inclusion” Stokes benchmark
      • 2D Lithosphere flexure benchmark with infill
      • Layered flow with viscosity contrast
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Nonlinear Channel Flow
      • Onset of convection benchmark
      • Benchmarks for operator splitting
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability
        • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability benchmark
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a free surface
      • The rigid shear benchmark
      • Magmatic shear bands
      • The SolCx Stokes benchmark
      • The solitary wave benchmark
      • The SolKz Stokes benchmark
      • 1D test for water solubility
      • Tan & Gurnis, 2007
      • Time dependent annulus benchmark
      • The viscoelastic relaxation benchmark
      • The viscoelastic sheared torsion benchmark
      • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
      • Viscosity grooves benchmark
      • Zhong et al., 1993
      • The “Stokes’ law” benchmark
    • feature:cartesian (96)
      • Advection stabilization benchmarks
        • Advection Benchmarks
      • The Blankenbach convection benchmark
      • Buiter et al. 2008, JGR
      • Brittle thrust wedges benchmark
      • The Burstedde variable viscosity benchmark
      • Compressibility formulation benchmarks
      • The Crameri et al. benchmarks
      • Diffusion of Hill
      • Donea & Huerta 2D box geometry benchmark
      • Entropy adiabat benchmark
      • Finite strain benchmark
      • Viscoelastic half-space loading
      • Viscous half-space loading
      • Grain Size Pinned State
      • The “inclusion” Stokes benchmark
      • 2D Lithosphere flexure benchmark with infill
      • The King compressible convection benchmark
      • Layered flow with viscosity contrast
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Nonlinear Channel Flow
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Spiegelman et at. (2016)
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Tosi et at. (2015)
      • The NSinker benchmark
      • Onset of convection benchmark
      • Benchmarks for operator splitting
      • Particle distribution benchmark
      • Particle integration scheme benchmark
      • Polydiapirism
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability
        • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability benchmark
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a free surface
      • The rigid shear benchmark
      • Magmatic shear bands
      • The sinking block benchmark
        • The sinking block benchmark files
      • The slab detachment benchmark
      • The SolCx Stokes benchmark
      • The solitary wave benchmark
      • The SolKz Stokes benchmark
      • 1D test for water solubility
      • Tan & Gurnis, 2007
      • The Tosi et al. benchmarks
      • The bending beam benchmark
      • Visco(elastic)-plastic shear bands after Gerya (2019)
      • The viscoelastplastic shear bands benchmark
      • The viscoelastoplastic simple shear benchmark
      • Viscoelastic plate flexure
      • The viscoelastic relaxation benchmark
      • The viscoelastic sheared torsion benchmark
      • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
      • Viscosity grooves benchmark
      • Yamauchi & Takei anelastic shear wave velocity-temperature conversion benchmark
      • Zhong et al., 1993
      • CPO induced anisotropic viscosity
      • Rift interaction in brittle-ductile coupled systems
      • Anisotropic viscosity
      • Convection in a 2d box with a phase transition
      • The active case with reactions.
      • The active case.
      • Using active particles.
      • The passive case.
      • The passive case with particles
      • Continental extension
      • Running a geodynamic model
      • Convection in a 2d box
      • Convection in a 3d box
      • Crustal deformation
      • Olivine Fabric Developments Under Simple Shear
      • Fastscape Eroding Box
      • Tracking finite strain
      • Using a free surface
      • Using a free surface in a model with a crust
      • Reading in compositional initial composition files generated with geomIO
      • Melt migration in a 2D mantle convection model
      • Sublithospheric convection beneath an oceanic plate with a grain size dependent rheology
      • Convective and conductive heat flow: Cooling of oceanic lithosphere
      • Viscous inclusions under simple and pure shear
      • Kinematically-driven 2d oceanic subduction
      • Latent heat benchmark
      • Lower crust flow with an obstacle
      • Magnetic lineations on the sea floor
      • Melt migration in a 2D mid-ocean ridge model
      • Reproducing rheology of Morency and Doin, 2004
      • Using lazy expression syntax for if-else-statements in function expressions
      • Onset of convection
      • Using Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics to Drive Phase Transformations
      • Convection in a box with prescribed, variable velocity boundary conditions
      • Prescribed internal velocity constraints
      • Prescribing internal velocity constraints with ASCII files
      • Averaging material properties
      • Sinking of anhydrite blocks within a Newtonian salt diapir
      • The “Stokes’ law” benchmark
      • Subduction initiation from Matsumoto and Tomoda (1983)
      • Simplified Subduction Model with Parameterized Solid-Fluid Reactions
      • Using the World Builder to model the thermal structure of oceanic transform faults
      • Computation of the van Keken Problem with the Volume-of-Fluid Interface Tracking Method
      • The van Keken thermochemical composition benchmark
      • Van Keken 2008 corner flow recreation
      • Visualizing phase diagrams
    • feature:community-benchmark (24)
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Tosi et at. (2015)
      • The NSinker benchmark
      • The Spherical Shell NSinker benchmark
      • Polydiapirism
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability
        • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability benchmark
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a free surface
      • Magmatic shear bands
      • The sinking block benchmark
        • The sinking block benchmark files
      • The slab detachment benchmark
      • The SolCx Stokes benchmark
      • The solitary wave benchmark
      • The SolKz Stokes benchmark
      • Tan & Gurnis, 2007
      • The Tosi et al. benchmarks
      • Visco(elastic)-plastic shear bands after Gerya (2019)
      • The viscoelastplastic shear bands benchmark
      • Yamauchi & Takei anelastic shear wave velocity-temperature conversion benchmark
      • Zhong et al., 1993
      • Convection in a 2d box with a phase transition
      • Viscous inclusions under simple and pure shear
      • Subduction initiation from Matsumoto and Tomoda (1983)
      • Computation of the van Keken Problem with the Volume-of-Fluid Interface Tracking Method
      • The van Keken thermochemical composition benchmark
      • Van Keken 2008 corner flow recreation
    • feature:compositional-fields (39)
      • The slab detachment benchmark
      • The SolCx Stokes benchmark
      • The SolKz Stokes benchmark
      • The bending beam benchmark
      • Visco(elastic)-plastic shear bands after Gerya (2019)
      • The viscoelastplastic shear bands benchmark
      • The viscoelastoplastic simple shear benchmark
      • Viscoelastic plate flexure
      • The viscoelastic relaxation benchmark
      • The viscoelastic sheared torsion benchmark
      • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
      • CPO induced anisotropic viscosity
      • Anisotropic viscosity
      • The active case with reactions.
      • The active case.
      • The passive case.
      • Olivine Fabric Developments Under Simple Shear
      • Tracking finite strain
      • Reading in compositional initial composition files generated with geomIO
      • Melt migration in a 2D mantle convection model
      • Viscous inclusions under simple and pure shear
      • Kinematically-driven 2d oceanic subduction
      • Lower crust flow with an obstacle
      • Magnetic lineations on the sea floor
      • Melt migration in a 2D mid-ocean ridge model
      • Reproducing rheology of Morency and Doin, 2004
      • Thermochemical plume model using multiple P–T look-up tables
      • Using Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics to Drive Phase Transformations
      • Prescribing internal velocity constraints with ASCII files
      • Artificial viscosity smoothing
      • Averaging material properties
      • Convection using a pressure–temperature look-up table and the rheology of Steinberger and Calderwood (2006)
      • The “Stokes’ law” benchmark
      • Subduction initiation from Matsumoto and Tomoda (1983)
      • Simplified Subduction Model with Parameterized Solid-Fluid Reactions
      • Mantle convection using tomography data
      • Computation of the van Keken Problem with the Volume-of-Fluid Interface Tracking Method
      • The van Keken thermochemical composition benchmark
      • Visualizing phase diagrams
    • feature:compressibility (11)
      • The 2D cylindrical shell benchmarks by Davies et al.
      • Entropy adiabat benchmark
      • The King compressible convection benchmark
      • Tan & Gurnis, 2007
      • 2D compressible convection with a reference profile and material properties from BurnMan
      • Melt migration in a 2D mantle convection model
      • Mantle convection with continents in an annulus
      • Thermochemical plume model using multiple P–T look-up tables
      • Using Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics to Drive Phase Transformations
      • Convection using a pressure–temperature look-up table and the rheology of Steinberger and Calderwood (2006)
      • Mantle convection using tomography data
    • feature:data-integration (13)
      • Entropy adiabat benchmark
      • Geoid Spectral Comparison
      • Gravity field generated by mantle density variations
      • Yamauchi & Takei anelastic shear wave velocity-temperature conversion benchmark
      • 2D compressible convection with a reference profile and material properties from BurnMan
      • Prescribing Velocities from Global Convection Models as Boundary Conditions in Regional Models
      • Using reconstructed surface velocities by GPlates
      • Sublithospheric convection beneath an oceanic plate with a grain size dependent rheology
      • 3D convection with an Earth-like initial condition
      • Prescribing internal velocity constraints with ASCII files
      • Simplified Subduction Model with Parameterized Solid-Fluid Reactions
      • Mantle convection using tomography data
      • Using the World Builder to model the thermal structure of oceanic transform faults
    • feature:elasticity (8)
      • The bending beam benchmark
      • Visco(elastic)-plastic shear bands after Gerya (2019)
      • The viscoelastplastic shear bands benchmark
      • The viscoelastoplastic simple shear benchmark
      • Viscoelastic plate flexure
      • The viscoelastic relaxation benchmark
      • The viscoelastic sheared torsion benchmark
      • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
    • feature:grain-size-evolution (2)
      • Grain Size Pinned State
      • Sublithospheric convection beneath an oceanic plate with a grain size dependent rheology
    • feature:melt (4)
      • Magmatic shear bands
      • The solitary wave benchmark
      • Melt migration in a 2D mantle convection model
      • Melt migration in a 2D mid-ocean ridge model
    • feature:mesh-deformation (16)
      • Buiter et al. 2008, JGR
      • Brittle thrust wedges benchmark
      • The Crameri et al. benchmarks
      • Diffusion of Hill
      • Viscoelastic half-space loading
      • Viscous half-space loading
      • 2D Lithosphere flexure benchmark with infill
      • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability with a free surface
      • The viscoelastplastic shear bands benchmark
      • Viscoelastic plate flexure
      • Rift interaction in brittle-ductile coupled systems
      • Continental extension
      • Crustal deformation
      • Fastscape Eroding Box
      • Using a free surface
      • Using a free surface in a model with a crust
    • feature:modular-equations (19)
      • Entropy adiabat benchmark
      • Finite strain benchmark
      • Grain Size Pinned State
      • Benchmarks for operator splitting
      • Magmatic shear bands
      • The solitary wave benchmark
      • 1D test for water solubility
      • The viscoelastoplastic simple shear benchmark
      • Viscoelastic plate flexure
      • The viscoelastic relaxation benchmark
      • The viscoelastic sheared torsion benchmark
      • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
      • CPO induced anisotropic viscosity
      • Anisotropic viscosity
      • Sublithospheric convection beneath an oceanic plate with a grain size dependent rheology
      • Inner core convection
      • Latent heat benchmark
      • Convection using a pressure–temperature look-up table and the rheology of Steinberger and Calderwood (2006)
      • Simplified Subduction Model with Parameterized Solid-Fluid Reactions
    • feature:nonlinear-solver (35)
      • Buiter et al. 2008, JGR
      • Brittle thrust wedges benchmark
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Nonlinear Channel Flow
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Spiegelman et at. (2016)
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Tosi et at. (2015)
      • Magmatic shear bands
      • The slab detachment benchmark
      • The solitary wave benchmark
      • 1D test for water solubility
      • Tan & Gurnis, 2007
      • The Tosi et al. benchmarks
      • The bending beam benchmark
      • Visco(elastic)-plastic shear bands after Gerya (2019)
      • The viscoelastplastic shear bands benchmark
      • The viscoelastoplastic simple shear benchmark
      • Viscoelastic plate flexure
      • The viscoelastic relaxation benchmark
      • The viscoelastic sheared torsion benchmark
      • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
      • Rift interaction in brittle-ductile coupled systems
      • Convection in a 2d box with a phase transition
      • Continental extension
      • Crustal deformation
      • Melt migration in a 2D mantle convection model
      • Sublithospheric convection beneath an oceanic plate with a grain size dependent rheology
      • Viscous inclusions under simple and pure shear
      • Mantle convection with continents in an annulus
      • Melt migration in a 2D mid-ocean ridge model
      • Reproducing rheology of Morency and Doin, 2004
      • Using Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics to Drive Phase Transformations
      • Plume in a 2D chunk
      • Convection using a pressure–temperature look-up table and the rheology of Steinberger and Calderwood (2006)
      • Simplified Subduction Model with Parameterized Solid-Fluid Reactions
      • Mantle convection using tomography data
      • Using the World Builder to model the thermal structure of oceanic transform faults
    • feature:particles (18)
      • Particle distribution benchmark
      • Particle integration scheme benchmark
      • The rigid shear benchmark
      • Time dependent annulus benchmark
      • The bending beam benchmark
      • The viscoelastplastic shear bands benchmark
      • The viscoelastic relaxation benchmark
      • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
      • CPO induced anisotropic viscosity
      • Using active particles.
      • The passive case with particles
      • Continental extension
      • Running a geodynamic model
      • Olivine Fabric Developments Under Simple Shear
      • Sublithospheric convection beneath an oceanic plate with a grain size dependent rheology
      • Mantle convection with continents in an annulus
      • Sinking of anhydrite blocks within a Newtonian salt diapir
      • Subduction initiation from Matsumoto and Tomoda (1983)
    • feature:plasticity (9)
      • The Tosi et al. benchmarks
      • Visco(elastic)-plastic shear bands after Gerya (2019)
      • The viscoelastoplastic simple shear benchmark
      • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
      • Rift interaction in brittle-ductile coupled systems
      • Continental extension
      • Crustal deformation
      • Mantle convection with continents in an annulus
      • Reproducing rheology of Morency and Doin, 2004
    • feature:solver-comparison (5)
      • Advection stabilization benchmarks
        • Advection Benchmarks
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Nonlinear Channel Flow
      • Newton Solver Benchmark Set - Tosi et at. (2015)
      • The NSinker benchmark
      • The Spherical Shell NSinker benchmark
    • feature:spherical (26)
      • Advection in Annulus
      • The 2D annulus benchmark
      • The 2D cylindrical shell benchmarks by Davies et al.
      • Geoid Spectral Comparison
      • Gravity field generated by mantle density variations
      • Thick shell gravity benchmark
      • Thin shell gravity benchmark
      • The hollow sphere benchmark
      • The Spherical Shell NSinker benchmark
      • Time dependent annulus benchmark
      • Two-dimensional cylindrical annulus visualization
      • The Bunge et al. mantle convection experiments
      • 2D compressible convection with a reference profile and material properties from BurnMan
      • Prescribing Velocities from Global Convection Models as Boundary Conditions in Regional Models
      • Using reconstructed surface velocities by GPlates
      • 3D convection with an Earth-like initial condition
      • Inner core convection
      • Mantle convection with continents in an annulus
      • Thermochemical plume model using multiple P–T look-up tables
      • Plume in a 2D chunk
      • Postprocessing spherical 3D convection
      • Simple convection in a quarter of a 2d annulus
      • Artificial viscosity smoothing
      • Simple convection in a spherical 3d shell
      • Convection using a pressure–temperature look-up table and the rheology of Steinberger and Calderwood (2006)
      • Mantle convection using tomography data
    • feature:two-phase-flow (6)
      • Magmatic shear bands
      • The solitary wave benchmark
      • 1D test for water solubility
      • Melt migration in a 2D mantle convection model
      • Melt migration in a 2D mid-ocean ridge model
      • Simplified Subduction Model with Parameterized Solid-Fluid Reactions
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  • The Tosi et al. benchmarks
  • Visco(elastic)-plastic shear bands after Gerya (2019)
  • The viscoelastoplastic simple shear benchmark
  • The viscoelastic stress build-up benchmark
  • Rift interaction in brittle-ductile coupled systems
  • Continental extension
  • Crustal deformation
  • Mantle convection with continents in an annulus
  • Reproducing rheology of Morency and Doin, 2004

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