Modeling assumptions and numerical methods#
- Basic equations
- Coefficients
- Dimensional or non-dimensionalized equations?
- Static or dynamic pressure?
- Pressure normalization
- Initial conditions and the adiabatic pressure/temperature
- Compositional fields
- Constitutive laws
- Numerical methods
- Approximate equations
- Choosing a formulation
- Advection Stabilization
- Free surface calculations
- Calculations with melt transport
- Calculations with Darcy flow
- Nullspace removal
- Particles
- Geometric Multigrid
- Choosing a nonlinear Stokes solver