FDCON
FDCON, a 2D Finite Difference Convection code for multi-compositional, two-phase flow thermo-chemical convection. Available on request (schmeling@geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de)
FDCON solves the conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy for
- Rayleigh - Benard thermal convection
- Compositional convection (diapirism, Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities)
- Two-phase flow melt-solid systems (melt segregation with compaction)
including
- Temperature-, pressure-, stress-dependent visco-plastic rheology
- Anisotropic viscosity
- Porosity dependent matrix viscosity
- Phase changes
- Binary solid solution melting-freezing law with depletion/enrichment
- Sedimentation/erosion
- Free surface invoking the sticky air approach
- Finite strain calculations
using
- Marker in cell advection with predictor-corrector Runge Kutta 4th order
- ADI with successive upwind for temperature equation
- Matrix velocity decomposition into irrotational potential and div-free stream function
- Biharmonic equation formulation for momentum equation
Computing resources
Blades cluster
The 6X local cluster of the geodynamics group consists of 8+2 blades. These blades are the compute nodes of the cluster. The machine can be used for :
- distributed memory parallel computing
- shared memory parallel computing
- scalar computing
The cluster is designed for batch and Interactive operation.