CitcomS Tutorials

Tutorial 1: Global Model

This example solves for thermal convection within a full spherical shell domain.

Tutorial 2: Velocity Boundary Conditions

This example solves for thermal convection with velocity boundary conditions imposed on the top surface within a given region of a sphere amd requires using the regional version of CitcomS.

Figure 1: (Tutorial 1) Global Model "Caps"

Figure 1: (Tutorial 1) Global Model "Caps." Left (A): Three-dimensional perspective image showing seven of the 12 spherical caps used in a full CitComS.py run. Right (B): The temperature field at 1081 km depth from a Cookbook 1 run.

Figure 2: (Tutorial 1) Global Model

Figure 2: (Tutorial 1) Global Model. This image, created by OpenDX, depicts a slice through a spherical model of convection, with warmer colors indicating upwelling and the cooler colors showing downwelling.

Figure 3: (Tutorial 2) Velocity Boundary Conditions

Figure 3: (Tutorial 2) Velocity Boundary Conditions. This model, visualized with OpenDX, highlights a region of the sphere and the heated upwellings (warm colors), downwellings (cool colors), and the velocities (yellow arrows).