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| Modelling Lithospheric Processes | ||||||||||||||
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| MODELLING THE COOLING OF A DIKE | ||||||||||||||
| Through this example our aims are:
• To understand Ellipsis computational grid. • To learn to design a simple "thermal" model. • To implement initial and boundary thermal conditions. • To learn about Ellipsis outputs, coloring scheme, profiles etc. • To become familiar with Ellipsis scripts. |
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| The cooling of a dike (2w m wide) is a well known problem for which we have an analytical solution: | ||||||||||||||
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| This allows us not only to benchmark some of the capacity of the Ellipsis but also to explore accuracy issues. | ||||||||||||||