[aspect-devel] AGU meeting feedback

[Walter Landry]

Juliane Dannberg <dannberg at gfz-potsdam.de> wrote:
> 
>> - First, what do the codes used in van Keken do? Do they actually use
>>   discontinuous initial fields? I don't have the paper here with me and,
>>   in addition, do not know what the codes in question do. Does someone
>>   know?
> This is a link to the paper:
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/97JB01353/abstract
> I believe all the codes use different methods, there are field,
> tracer, and marker chain methods. They are all described in the
> Numerical Methods section of the paper, but I have no idea how the
> initial fields are handled exactly in the field method model.

FYI, there is also Suckale's paper

  http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~suckale/Suckaleetal_threetotango1_JGR2010.pdf

which uses level sets and ghost fluids.  Like all the other codes, it
sees the second plume rising from the right side, not the center.

Cheers,
Walter Landry