ISSN:
1365-246X
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Geosciences
Notes:
We have carried out a comparison study for a set of benchmark problems which are relevant for convection in the Earth's mantle. The cases comprise steady isoviscous convection, variable viscosity convection and time-dependent convection with internal heating. We compare Nusselt numbers, velocity, temperature, heat-flow, topography and geoid data. Among the applied codes are finite-difference, finite-element and spectral methods. In a synthesis we give best estimates of the ‘true’ solutions and ranges of uncertainty. We recommend these data for the validation of convection codes in the future.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1989.tb05511.x
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