Frontiers in Computational Geophysics: simulations of mantle circulation, plate tectonics and seismic wave propagation

We review recent progress in geophysical modeling of global plate tectonic, mantle convection and seismic wave propagation problems, paying particular attention to novel adjoint methods for the efficient inversion of seismic and tectonic data. We observe that the continuing growth in high performance and cluster computing promises the crossing of long standing barriers in the simulation of first-order geophysical phenomena.

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  author = {Oeser, Jens and Bunge, Hans-Peter and Mohr, Marcus and Igel, Heiner},
  booktitle = {100 Volumes NNFM and 40 Years Numerical Fluid Mechanics},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-70805-6\_30},
  editor = {Hirschel, E. H. and Krause, E.},
  isbn = {978-3-540-70804-9},
  language = {en},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series = {Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design},
  title = {Frontiers in Computational Geophysics: simulations of mantle circulation, plate tectonics and seismic wave propagation},
  volume = {100},
  year = {2009},
}

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%E Krause, E.
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%S Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design
%T Frontiers in Computational Geophysics: simulations of mantle circulation, plate tectonics and seismic wave propagation
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