Convection Model (IMAGE)

Colorado State University

Convection Model

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Simulation of a simplified model of convection in the Earth's mantle, the region between the metallic Earth core and the solid crust. Hot material rises up in complex plumes, as cold material wells down. This computation required 1,200 processors on a supercomputer for more than two weeks.

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Computation and visualization with the ASPECT code by Wolfgang Bangerth, Colorado State University

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