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A finite element parallel code to simulate problems in thermal convection in both 2D and 3D models.
ASPECT is a code to simulate problems in thermal convection. Its primary focus is on the simulation of processes in the earth's mantle, but its design is more general than that. The primary aims developing ASPECT are:
ASPECT is published under the GNU GPL v2 or newer license.
aspect-2.5.0.tar.gz [2023-07-31]
Among others this release includes the following significant changes:
ASPECT now includes version 0.5.0 of the Geodynamic World Builder.
(Menno Fraters and other contributors)
ASPECT's manual has been converted from LaTeX to Markdown to be hosted as a
website at https://aspect-documentation.readthedocs.io.
(Chris Mills, Mack Gregory, Timo Heister, Wolfgang Bangerth, Rene
Gassmoeller, and many others)
New: ASPECT now requires deal.II 9.4 or newer.
(Rene Gassmoeller, Timo Heister)
ASPECT now supports a DebugRelease build type that creates a debug build and
a release build of ASPECT at the same time. It can be enabled by setting the
CMake option CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to DebugRelease or by typing "make debugrelease".
(Timo Heister)
ASPECT now has a CMake option ASPECT_INSTALL_EXAMPLES that allows building
and install all cookbooks and benchmarks. ASPECT now additionally installs
the data/ directory. Both changes are helpful for installations that are used
for teaching and tutorials.
(Rene Gassmoeller)
Changed: ASPECT now releases the memory used for storing initial conditions
and the Geodynamic World Builder after model initialization unless an
owning pointer to these objects is kept. This reduces the memory footprint
for models initialized from large data files.
(Wolfgang Bangerth)
Added: Various helper functions to distinguish phase transitions for
different compositions and compositional fields of different types.
(Bob Myhill)
Added: The 'adiabatic' initial temperature plugin can now use a spatially
variable top boundary layer thickness read from a data file or specified as a
function in the input file. Additionally, the boundary layer temperature can
now also be computed following the plate cooling model instead of the
half-space cooling model.
(Daniel Douglas, John Naliboff, Juliane Dannberg, Rene Gassmoeller)
New: ASPECT now supports tangential velocity boundary conditions with GMG for
more geometries, such as 2D and 3D chunks.
(Timo Heister, Haoyuan Li, Jiaqi Zhang)
New: Phase transitions can now be deactivated outside a given temperature
range specified by upper and lower temperature limits for each phase
transition. This allows implementing complex phase diagrams with transitions
that intersect in pressure-temperature space.
(Haoyuan Li)
New: There is now a postprocessor that outputs the total volume of the
computational domain. This can be helpful for models using mesh deformation.
(Anne Glerum)
New: Added a particle property 'grain size' that tracks grain size evolution
on particles using the 'grain size' material model.
(Juliane Dannberg, Rene Gassmoeller)
Fixed: Many bugs, see link below for a complete list.
(Many authors. Thank you!).
A complete list of all changes and their authors can be found at
https://aspect.geodynamics.org/doc/doxygen/changes_between_2_84_80_and_2_85_80.html