Underworld2: Python Geodynamics Modelling for Desktop, HPC and Cloud
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2020
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Mansour, J. A.
Giordani, Julian
Moresi, Louis
Beucher, Romain
Kaluza, Owen
Velic, Mirko
Farrington, R.
Quenette, Steve
Beall, Adam
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The modelling of long time-scale solid-Earth processes presents challenges on many fronts.
Typically a large range of length scales must be resolved, and computational requirements can
easily go beyond a desktop machine’s capability, even in 2-dimensions. Rheological behaviours
are diverse and modellers often wish to investigate a spectrum of dynamics. With this also
comes the requirement of robust solution strategies capable of capturing a system of large
dynamic range. Time dependent aspects of a model also require careful consideration such
that numerical artefacts do not subsume the required signal. Underworld2 is a Python API
which seeks to meet these challenges, while also providing a friendly and intuitive interface to
model development.
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