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TERRA (Version 2)
- Abstract
- TERRA is a 3-D spherical finite element mantle dynamics code developed originally by John Baumgardner and later parallelized by Peter Bunge. The conservation equations are expressed in terms of the primitive variables velocity, pressure, and temperature. The compressible formulation currently offers the ability to treat strong radial and lateral rheological variations, deformational heating, mineralogical phase transitions, as well as lithospheric plates. Geophysical problems that can be addressed using TERRA include "deterministic" models of mantle convection, mantle rheology and mantle convection, and modeling chemical heterogeneity and mixing in 3-D mantle convection.
- DateOfInformation
- Tue Jun 16 11:32:54 1998
- Domain
- Scientific and Engineering Applications
- Keyword
- Solid Earth Science, finite element methods, multigrid methods, particle methods
- Language
- Fortran 77
- Name
- TERRA (Version 2)
- TargetEnvironment
- all Unix platforms, MPI required on multiprocessor systems
- Webpage
- http://www-igpp.lanl.gov/TERRA.html
- ContactIs
- John R. Baumgardner
- Files
- TERRA (Code Version 2)
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