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Arie van den Berg, Guus Segal, David A. Yuen. SEPRAN: A Versatile Finite-Element Package for a WideVariety of Problems in Geosciences. Journal of Earth Science, 2015, 26(1): 89-95. doi: 10.1007/s12583-015-0508-0
Citation: Arie van den Berg, Guus Segal, David A. Yuen. SEPRAN: A Versatile Finite-Element Package for a Wide Variety of Problems in Geosciences. Journal of Earth Science, 2015, 26(1): 89-95. doi: 10.1007/s12583-015-0508-0
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SEPRAN: A Versatile Finite-Element Package for a Wide Variety of Problems in Geosciences

doi: 10.1007/s12583-015-0508-0
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    Department of Theoretical Geophysics, Institute of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands

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    Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Delft, The Netherlands

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    Department of Earth Sciences and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455, USA

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    School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China

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  • Corresponding author: Arie van den Berg, berg@geo.uu.nl
  • Received Date: 25 Feb 2014
  • Accepted Date: 27 Sep 2014
  • Publish Date: 01 Jan 2015
    Abstract
  • Numerical modelling of geological processes, such as mantle convection, flow in porous media, and geothermal heat transfer, has become quite common with the increase in computing and the availability of usable software. Today modelling these dynamical processes entails the solving of the governing equations involving the mass, momentum, energy and chemical transport. These equations represent partial differential equations and must be solved on powerful enough computers because they require sufficient spatial and temporal resolution to be useful. We describe here the salient and outstanding features of the SEPRAN software package, developed in the Netherlands, as a case study for a robust and user-friendly software, which the geological community can utilize in handling many thermal-mechanical-chemical problems found in geology, which will include geothermal situations, where many types of partial differential equations must be solved at the same time with thermodynamical input parameters.

     

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