The Geodynamic World Builder: A planetary structure creator for the geosciences
Contributors
- 1. University of California Davis
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GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
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University of California, Davis
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Clemson University
- 5. New Mexico Tech (NMT)
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Colorado State University
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University of Oslo
Description
The Geodynamic World Builder (GWB) is an open source code library intended to set up initial conditions for computational geodynamic models and/or visualize complex 3d teconic setting, in both Cartesian and Spherical geometries. The inputs for the JSON-style parameter file are not mathematical, but rather a structured nested list describing tectonic features, e.g. a continental, an oceanic or a subducting plate. Each of these tectonic features can be assigned a specific temperature profile (e.g. plate model) or composition label (e.g. uniform). For each point in space, the GWB can return the composition and/or temperature. It is written in C++, but can be used in almost any language through its C, Python and Fortran wrappers. Various examples of 2D and 3D subduction settings are presented.
Files
WorldBuilder-1.1.0.zip
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Additional details
Related works
- Is supplement to
- Journal article: https://se.copernicus.org/articles/10/1785/2019/ (URL)
- Software: https://github.com/GeodynamicWorldBuilder/WorldBuilder/tree/v1.1.0 (URL)
- Journal article: 10.21105/joss.06671 (DOI)
Software
- Repository URL
- https://github.com/GeodynamicWorldBuilder/WorldBuilder/
- Programming language
- C++