CitcomS Tutorials

Two tutorials (cookbooks) are offered as a guide to some of the types of problems CitcomS.py can solve.

Tutorial 1: Global Model — by Sue Kientz — last modified 2007-11-08 02:54 PM

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

Tutorial 2: Velocity Boundary Conditions — by Sue Kientz — last modified 2007-11-08 02:55 PM

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" — by Sue Kientz — last modified 2007-08-14 02:46 PM

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 — by Sue Kientz — last modified 2007-08-14 02:46 PM

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 — by Sue Kientz — last modified 2007-08-14 02:47 PM

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).