Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The continuity equation 2. Density and gravity 3. Numerical solutions of partial differential equations 4. Stress and strain 5. The momentum equation 6. Viscous rheology of rocks 7. Numerical solutions of the momentum and continuity equations 8. The advection equation and marker-in-cell method 9. The heat conservation equation 10. Numerical solution of the heat conservation equation 11. 2-D thermomechanical code structure 12. Elasticity and plasticity 13. 2-D implementation of visco-elastic-plastic rheology 14. The multi-grid method 15. Programming of 3-D problems 16. Numerical benchmarks 17. Design of 2-D numerical geodynamic models Epilogue: outlook Appendix: MATLAB program examples References Index.
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