Tan & Gurnis, 2007

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Tan & Gurnis, 2007#

Tan, E., & Gurnis, M. (2007). Compressible thermochemical convection and application to lower mantle structures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 112(B6) to check compressible convection.

Comparison of the heating terms for TALA, Di=0.5, gamma=1, a=0:

                                   shear heating  adiabatic_heating

analytical solution (Tan, Gurnis ‘07) 5.306916e-03 5.251999e-03

numerical solution (refinement 4) 5.30690178e-03 5.25196977e-03 numerical solution (refinement 5) 5.30691533e-03 5.25199721e-03 numerical solution (refinement 6) 5.30691618e-03 5.25199897e-03 numerical solution (refinement 7) 5.30691622e-03 5.25199906e-03