Description

BurnMan is an open source mineral physics toolbox written in Python to determine seismic velocities for the lower mantle. BurnMan calculates the isotropic thermoelastic moduli by solving the equations-of-state for a mixture of minerals defined by the user. The user may select from a list of minerals applicable to the lower mantle included or easily define one of their own.

Features:

• major documentation overhaul
• new tutorials
• huge performance improvements by caching property values
• python 3 compatibility
• gibbs free energy computation
• new SolidSolution class
• added ideal, symmetric, asymmetric and subregular solution model formulations
• computation of chemical potentials
• updated ipython notebooks
• new seismic models
• added EoS fitting functions
• using jit compilation if available
• additional equations of state: Vinet, BM4, ...
• a large number of new minerals in the databases
• much better test coverage

Cite as

Heister, T.; Unterborn, C.; Rose, I.; Cottaar, S. (2016), Burn Man v0.9 [software], Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics, Available from: geodynamics.org, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.546210, url: https://zenodo.org/record/546210

Primary References

Cottaar, S.; Heister, T.; Rose, I.; Unterborn, C. (2014), BurnMan: A lower mantle mineral physics toolkit, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15 (4) , 1164-1179, doi: 10.1002/2013GC005122, url: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/2013GC005122

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