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ASPECT 2.5.0
  • ASPECT
  • User Guide
    • Introduction
    • Modeling assumptions and numerical methods
      • Basic equations
        • A comment on adiabatic heating
        • Boundary conditions
        • Two-dimensional models
      • 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
      • 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
        • Obtaining ASPECT and initial configuration
        • Compiling ASPECT and generating 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
      • Input parameter files
        • The structure of parameter files
        • Categories of parameters
        • A note on the syntax of formulas in input files
        • Compatibility of input files with newer ASPECT versions
      • A graphical user interface
        • Installing parameter-GUI
        • Using ASPECT-GUI
    • 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
      • 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
        • 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)
        • Reproducing rheology of Morency and Doin, 2004
        • Crustal deformation
        • Continental extension
        • Inner core convection
        • Melt migration in a 2D mantle convection model
        • Melt migration in a 2D mid-ocean ridge model
        • Kinematically-driven 2d oceanic subduction
        • 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 Rayleigh-Taylor instability
        • The Rayleigh-Taylor instability benchmark
      • Polydiapirism
      • The sinking block benchmark
        • The sinking block benchmark files
      • 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
        • Advection 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
        • Visco(elastic)-plastic shear bands after Gerya (2019)
    • Extending and 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
        • Prescribed velocity boundary conditions
        • Temperature boundary conditions
        • 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
      • How to contribute
      • Future plans for ASPECT
      • Release Tasklist
    • Finding answers to more questions
  • Parameter Documentation
    • Global parameters
    • Adiabatic conditions model
    • Boundary composition 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
    • Postprocess
    • Prescribed Stokes solution
    • Solver parameters
    • Temperature field
    • Termination criteria
    • Time stepping
    • Volume of Fluid
  • References

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Available plugin types

Available plugin types#

  • Material models
  • Heating models
  • Geometry models
  • Gravity models
  • Initial conditions
  • Prescribed velocity boundary conditions
  • Temperature boundary conditions
  • Postprocessors: Evaluating the solution after each time step
    • Motivation.
    • The statistics file.
    • Implementing a postprocessor.
    • Postprocessors and checkpoint/restart.
  • Visualization postprocessors
  • Mesh refinement criteria
  • Criteria for terminating a simulation

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By Wolfgang Bangerth, Juliane Dannberg, Menno Fraters, Rene Gassmöller, Anne Glerum, Timo Heister, Bob Myhill, John Naliboff; with contributions by: Jacqueline Austermann, Magali Billen, Markus Bürg, Thomas Clevenger, Samuel Cox, William Durkin, Grant Euen, Thomas Geenen, Ryan Grove, Eric Heien, Ludovic Jeanniot, Louise Kellogg, Scott King, Martin Kronbichler, Marine Lasbleis, Haoyuan Li, Shangxin Liu, Hannah Mark, Elvira Mulyukova, Bart Niday, Jonathan Perry-Houts, Elbridge Gerry Puckett, Tahiry Rajaonarison, Fred Richards, Jonathan Robey, Ian Rose, Max Rudolph, Stephanie Sparks, D. Sarah Stamps, Cedric Thieulot, Wanying Wang, Iris van Zelst, Siqi Zhang
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