High accuracy mantle convection simulation through modern numerical methods

Abstract

The first author was supported by the Graduate School in Mathematics and Computing (FMB) at Uppsala University, Sweden. The second and third authors are supported in part through the Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics initiative (CIG), through the National Science Foundation under Award No. EAR-0949446 and The University of California-Davis. This publication is based in part on work supported by Award No. KUS-C1-016-04, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The third author is also supported in part by an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.Some computations for this paper were performed on the 'Ranger' and 'Lonestar' clusters at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), and the 'Brazos' and 'Hurr' clusters at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (IAMCS) at Texas A&M University. Ranger was funded by NSF award OCI-0622780, and we used an allocation obtained under NSF award TG-MCA04N026. The authors acknowledge the Texas A&M Supercomputing Facility for providing computing resources on 'Lonestar' useful in conducting the research reported in this paper. Part of Brazos was supported by NSF award DMS-0922866. Hurr is supported by Award No. KUS-C1-016-04 made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Some computations were performed on resources provided by SNIC through Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX) under project p2010002.