Introduction to lithospheric geodynamic modelling

Contents:

• Python essentials
• Finite differences method introduction
• Finite differences formulation of the heat conduction problem
• Spatially varying physical parameters
• Testing your code and benchmarking
• Advection
• Finite difference method, part II
• Heat conduction with advection
• Heat conduction in 2D
• Stokes and continuity equations in 2D
• Putting it together

Resources

• The scripts and script templates referred to in the teaching material can be found at the GitHub scripts directory

• Random notes and snippets collected during the lessons

• Short NumPy tutorial

• Wolfram Alpha: has a simple calculator, plotting, equation solver, etc.