June 19
Thermochemical Mantle Convection and Entrainment
Numerical Methods in Mantle Convection Modeling |
Chair: Louise Kellogg
Chair: Shijie Zhong |
| Opening Remarks |
Marc Parmentier |
| Introduction to the CIG |
Marc Spiegelman |
| Thermochemical mantle plumes: tracers, markers and chains |
Peter van Keken |
| The Existence, Longevity and Composition of Mantle Plumes and Hotspot Volcanoes |
Mark Jellinek |
| Three-dimensional numerical simulations of thermo-chemical multiphase convection in Earth's Mantle |
Takashi Nakagawa |
| Upper Mantle Dynamics Expressed in Hotspot Basalt Chemistry |
Garrett Ito |
| Influences of Compositional Stratification |
Sarah Zaranek |
| A finite volume solution method for thermal convection in a spherical shell with strong temperature- and pressure-dependent viscosity |
Kai Stemmer |
| 3D spherical gridding based on equidistant, constant volume cells for FV/FD methods |
Christian Huettig |
| Agile computational modeling: Facilitation by StGermain |
Steve Quenette |
| Numerical and Benchmarking Issues for 3D Spherical Codes (Unlocking the Secrets of the Rocky Planets) |
John Baumgardner |
| Numerical issues behind Citcom family |
Louis Moresi and Shijie Zhong |
June 20
Structure and Mantle Convection |
Chair: Slava Solomatov |
| Investigating large-scale mantle heterogeneity using the thermochemical extension of CitcomS |
Allen McNamara |
| Thermo-chemical convection: a comparison of numerical methods, and application to modeling planetary evolution |
Paul Tackley |
| Influences of the Postperovskite Transiton on Lower Mantle Dynamics |
David Yuen |
| Finite Prandtl Number Convection |
Catherine A. Hier-Majumder |
| Mantle Plume Volcanism on Present-day Mars |
Walter Kiefer |
| How to Stabilize Superplumes (Compressible thermo-chemical convection on African superplume) |
Eh Tan |
| Pyre - An overview of a software architecture for scientific applications |
Michael Aivazis |
| An Introduction to the TeraGrid |
Jeffrey Gardner |
June 21
Observational Constraints on Global Mantle Flow |
Chair: Magali Billen |
| Seismic anisotropy from nested flow models with fabric development: enough already? |
Thorsten Becker |
| Mantle dynamics and surface deformation |
Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni |
| Lateral Variations in Lithospheric Viscosity: Implications for Seismic Anisotropy and Lithospheric Stresses |
Clinton Conrad |
| Inversion for Mantle Viscosity from Post-glacial Rebound |
Archie Paulson |
June 22
Mantle Convection and Tectonic Plates |
Chair: Adrian Lenardic |
| How do we know if plate-like calculations are really plates and does it matter? |
Scott King |
| Subduction Dynamics: From Initiation to Maturity |
Mike Gurnis and Chad Hall |
| A parameterized rheology for creating lithospheric-scale shear zones |
Boris Kaus |
June 23
New Directions and Development in Modeling Mantle Dynamics |
Chair: Marc Parmentier |
| The constitutive behaviour of plates and plate boundaries |
Louis Moresi |
| Grain-size dependent viscosity convections |
Slava Solomatov |
| Understanding the effects of viscosity stratification on mantle convection and plate tectonics |
Mark Richards |
| Plumbing the Depths: Towards an intergration of magma dynamics and chemical transport in mantle convectionation |
Marc Spiegelman and Richard Katz |
| Rheologic Controls on Slab Dynamics |
Magali Billen |
