Large-scale adaptive mantle convection simulation
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Carsten Burstedde,1,2 Georg Stadler,1 Laura Alisic,3,4 Lucas C. Wilcox,1,5 Eh Tan,6,7 Michael Gurnis3 and Omar Ghattas1,8,9 1Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Institut fur Numerische Simulation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] 3Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA 4Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 5Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA 6Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), Pasadena, CA, USA 7Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 8Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA 9Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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