[CIG-LONG] Thermal condition

[Walter Landry]

Taichi SATO <taichix at ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> Thank you for your quick responce Walter!
> 
>>> 1. Is it possible to keep initial thermal condition?
>>> As simulation proceeds, high temperature region in
>>> mantle will broaden. I think it is not suitable
>>> for mid-ocean ridge process.
>> 
>> Sorry it took so long to get back to you.  I thought this should be
>> possible, but I kept running into issues.  I will work on it some
>> more.
> Does it mean that a fixed thermal condition does 
> not contain in Gale? or my mistake ?

There is a way to do it right now if the mesh does not deform.  You
just take out the energy equation components.  But if you have a free
surface you won't get the right answer.  So I am trying to get the
boundary conditions applied every timestep.  Then you can have a
boundary condition that covers the whole box.  But there are some
annoying problems I am working through.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
walter at geodynamics.org