A community benchmark for 2-D Cartesian compressible convection in the Earth’s mantle
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Scott D. King,1 Changyeol Lee,1 Peter E. van Keken,2 Wei Leng,3 Shijie Zhong,3 Eh Tan,4 Nicola Tosi5,6 and Masanori C. Kameyama7 1Department of Geosciences,Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Department of Geological Sciences,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 3Department of Physics,University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA 4Seismological Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 5Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Repulic 6Institute of Geological Sciences, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany 7Geodynamics Research Center (GRC), Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
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