Examples of two-dimensional domain and material discretisation. The domain discretisation in the left-hand side column illustrates different types of meshes. The top left mesh is built on a quadtree and also shown with several levels of mesh refinement (middle left) so as to better capture the circular interface. The bottom left panel shows an unstructured triangular mesh built so that element edges are aligned with the (quarter) circle perimeter. Note that non-rectangle quadrilateral elements can also be used to conform to an interface. The material discretisation is illustrated by different methods of material tracking in the right-hand side column based on either the particle-in-cell method (top right) or grid-based advection (bottom right) for the material contrasts indicated by the blueish colours.
- Creator: Fabio Crameri
- This version: 11.11.2021
- License: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Specific citation: This graphic by Fabio Crameri from van Zelst et al. (2021) is available via the open-access s-ink.org repository.
- Related reference: van Zelst, I., F. Crameri, A.E. Pusok, A.C. Glerum, J. Dannberg, C. Thieulot (2022), 101 geodynamic modelling: how to design, interpret, and communicate numerical studies of the solid Earth, Solid Earth, 13, 583–637, doi:10.5194/se-13-583-2022
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