User Guide
User Guide#
- Introduction
- 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
- Installation
- Running ASPECT
- Cookbooks
- 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 Rayleigh-Taylor instability
- Polydiapirism
- The sinking block benchmark
- The SolCx Stokes benchmark
- The SolKz Stokes benchmark
- The “inclusion” Stokes benchmark
- The Burstedde variable viscosity benchmark
- The slab detachment benchmark
- The hollow sphere benchmark
- The 2D annulus 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
- Benchmarks for operator splitting
- The Tosi et al. benchmarks
- Layered flow with viscosity contrast
- Donea & Huerta 2D box geometry benchmark
- Advection stabilization benchmarks
- 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
- 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
- The viscoelastic plastic shear bands benchmarks
- Extending and contributing to ASPECT
- Finding answers to more questions