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James B. S. G. Greensky Wojciech Walter Czech David A. Yuen Michael Richard Knox Megan Rose Damon Shi Steve Chen M. Charley Kameyama 《Visual Geosciences》2008,13(1):105-115
We have developed a new strategy and espouse a novel paradigm for large-scale computing and real-time interactive visualization.
This philosophy calls for intense interactive sessions for a couple of hours at a time at the expense of storing data on many
disk drives during regular or heroic runs on massively parallel systems. We have already carried out successfully real-time
volume-rendering visualization by employing hundreds of processors for a grid with over 25 million unknowns. Both Cartesian
and spherical 3D mantle convection are visualized. The volume-rendered images are viewed on a large display device, with many
panels holding around 13 million pixels. We will employ a software strategy involving an hierarchical rendering service, which
will have as software an Ajax interface for interactive visualization of large data sets on many different platforms from
desktop PC’s to hand-held devices, such as the OQO and the Nokia N-800. An option for stereo viewing is also implemented.
We have installed a user interface as web application, using Java and Ajax framework in order to achieve over the Internet
reasonable accessibility to our ongoing runs. Our goal is to expand the array of interactive devices, which will make it feasible
to carry out ubiquitous visualization and monitoring of large-scale simulations or onsite events and to allow for collaborations
across oceans. 相似文献
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Megan Damon Masanori C. Kameyama Michael Knox David H. Porter Dave Yuen Erik O. D. Sevre 《Visual Geosciences》2008,13(1):49-57
The current availability of thousands of processors at many high performance computing centers has made it feasible to carry
out, in near real time, interactive visualization of 3D mantle convection temperature fields, using grid configurations having
10–100 million unknowns. We will describe the technical details involved in carrying out this endeavor, using the facilities
available at the Laboratory of Computational Science and Engineering (LCSE) at the University of Minnesota. These technical
details involve the modification of a parallel mantle convection program, ACuTEMan; the usage of client–server socket based
programs to transfer upwards of a terabyte of time series scientific model data using a local network; a rendering system
containing multiple nodes; a high resolution PowerWall display, and the interactive visualization software, DSCVR. We have
found that working in an interactive visualizastion mode allows for fast and efficient analysis of mantle convection results.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Mantle convection modeling of the supercontinent cycle： Introversion,extroversion, or a combination？
The periodic assembly and dispersal of continental fragments,referred to as the supercontinent cycle,bear close relation to the evolution of mantle convection and plate tectonics.Supercontinent formation involves complex processes of"introversion"(closure of interior oceans),"extroversion"(closure of exterior oceans),or a combination of these processes in uniting dispersed continental fragments.Recent developments in numerical modeling and advancements in computation techniques enable us to simulate Earth’s mantle convection with drifting continents under realistic convection vigor and rheology in Earth-like geometry(i.e.,3D spherical-shell).We report a numerical simulation of 3D mantle convection,incorporating drifting deformable continents,to evaluate supercontinent processes in a realistic mantle convection regime.Our results show that supercontinents are assembled by a combination of introversion and extroversion processes.Small-scale thermal heterogeneity dominates deep mantle convection during the supercontinent cycle,although large-scale upwelling plumes intermittently originate under the drifting continents and/or the supercontinent. 相似文献
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Current Trends and Demands in Visualization in the Geosciences 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Geosciences, along with many other disciplines in science and engineering, faces an exponential increase in the amount of
data generated from observation, experiment and large-scale, high-resolution 3-D numerical simulations. In this communication
we describe the fundamentals of visualization necessary to meet these challenges. We present several alternative methodologies
such as 2D/3D feature extraction, segmentation methods, and flow topology, to help better understand the physical structure
of the data. We use AMIRA from TGS to demonstrate our concepts. Examples are drawn from fields in computational fluid dynamics,
3-D mantle convection and seismic tomography. Finally, we present our perspective on the future of visualization. 相似文献
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Current advances in computer hardware, information technology and data collection techniques have produced very large data
sets in a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. We must harness this opportunity to visualize and extract
useful information from geophysical and geological data. We have taken the task of data mining by implementing a map-like
approach over a web server for interrogating the data, using a client-server paradigm. The spatial-data is mapped onto a two-dimensional
grid from which the user (client) can quiz the data with the map-interface as a user extension. The data is stored on the
server, while the computational gateway separating the client and the server can be the front-end of an electronic publication,
electronic classroom, a survey, or an e-business. We have used a combination of Java, Java3D, and Perl for processing the
data and communicating between the client and the server. The user can interrogate the geospatial data over any particular
region with arbitrary dimensions and then receive back relevant statistical analysis, such as the histogram plots and local
statistics. We have applied this method for the following data sets: (1.) distribution of prime numbers (2.) two-dimensional
mantle convection (3.) three-dimensional mantle convection (4.) high-resolution satellite reflectance data over multiple wavelengths
(5.) molecular dynamics describing the flow of blood in narrow vessels. Using the map-interface, one can actually interrogate
this data over the Internet. 相似文献
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It was known that deep within numbers and binary data from simulations of geophysical convective flows resided various patterns. Two models of convective fluid flows were being considered. One was a model of two-dimensional (768 × 256) air convection with finite Prandtl number of one and Rayleigh number of 108−1010, and another was a model of three-dimensional (up to 120 × 120 × 90) mantle convection with infinite Prandtl number and Rayleigh number of 106−108. Clearly, phenomena existed which superceded each individual dimensionless computer model to provide a piece of information regarding actual fluid flows. The problem was how to find, prove, and communicate these patterns and phenomena for convection simulations with gigabytes of data. In a search for such an analytical and communicative tool, the alternative of visualization was considered. The need for visualization was recognized and discussed. Then, utilizing both two- and three-dimensional models of high Rayleigh number convection, basic techniques of style and content were developed. Applications of the visualization techniques were designed utilizing IBM’s Data Explorer in order to create communicative images and movies, and after the applications, the problems of data storage and transfer became apparent. Throughout the process though, it became clear how important the language of vision actually could be in the geophysics community. In a field in which words such as plumes and internal waves have in ways replaced mathematics as the basic language for science, there is a need for another resource, another language-the visualization of convective fluid flows. 相似文献
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Up to now, all of the figures in mantle convection literature have been presented in a static manner, where the fields at
one scale are shown on a printed page . This is no longer possible with the spatial resolution increasing at an ever rising
clip and the appearance of the issue of multi-scale structures. Because of the onslaught of data-flooding and the growing
complexity of strongly time-varying physical fields from compressible mantle convection, such as the adiabaticity, and other
thermo dynamical heating functions, we can no longer afford to display and look at the results in the same static way as in
a book. We have developed a new approach for interrogating data coming out from numerical simulations. This is based on an
interactive two-dimensional map which is used over the WEB with a client-server paradigm. We have applied this to investigate
mantle convection flows in both two-and three-dimensional situations. The distributions of thermal anomalies found are no
longer Gaussian but sometimes have long tails, especially near the edges of plume heads. The same is also found for the distribution
of mechanical heating, which can be quite skewed. Our experiences with this new interactive mode of data-query have shown
both the educational and scientific importance of using the world wide web media to quiz handily the data taken from large-scale
numerical simulations. 相似文献
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Postglacial rebound is a major geological process which plays an important role in many areas in the earth sciences. Up to
now, most of the images derived from studies of the glacial isostatic adjustment phenomenon have been concerned with surface
signatures, such as the uplift and gravity anomalies and not much attention has been paid on the dynamical responses in the
mantle. We will make use of the 3D visualization package Amira to depict both the external and internal deformation histories
of the transient viscoelastic flow inside the mantle induced by postglacial uplift. Of particularly great interest are the
transient displacement fields and shear heating inside the mantle. This same visualization technology can be brought to bear
in the future for visualizing tsunami waves in ocean basins excited by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and InSAR images. We
have also integrated the visualization results into the Google Earth virtual globe by combining this scheme with the Amira
package to provide a better geographical and dynamical context.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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The large-scale tectonics in the last billion years (Ga) are predominated by the assembly and breakup of supercontinents Rodinia and Pangea. The mechanisms controlling the assembly of supercontinents are not clear. Here, we investigate the assembly of a supercontinent with 1) stochastic models of randomly-moving continental blocks and 2) 3-D spherical models of mantle convection with continental blocks. For the stochastic models, we determined the time required for all the blocks to assemble into a single supercontinent on a spherical surface. We found that the assembly time from our stochastic models is significantly longer than inferred for Pangea and Rodinia. However, our study also suggests that the assembly time from stochastic models is sensitive to the rules for randomly assigning continental motion in the models. In our dynamic models of mantle convection, continental blocks are modeled as deformable and compositionally distinct materials from the mantle. We found that mantle convective planform has significant effects on supercontinent assembly. For models with moderately strong lithosphere and the lower mantle relative to the upper mantle that lead to degree-1 mantle convection, continental blocks always assemble to a supercontinent in 250 million years (Ma) and this assembly time is consistent with inferred for Pangea and Rodinia. However, for models with intrinsically small-scale mantle flows, we found that even when continental blocks merge to form a supercontinent, the assembly times are too long and the convective structures outside of supercontinent regions are of too small wavelengths, compared with observed. 相似文献
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地球内部物理和演化的几个核心论题：I.地球内部结构和物理性质 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
本文综述研究地球内部结构和物理特性的几种常见规方法和主要研究结果,并首重讨论地球物理状态方程,地震成象,综合反演,高温高压实验和有关对比研究方法,均匀各向同性球对球模型仍不失其参考意义,但最新研究结果表明,地球内部状态是非均匀和各向异性的,横向不均匀对称地球模型仍不其参考意义,但最新研究结果表明,地球内部状态是非均匀和各向异性的,横向不均匀性主要表现在上地幔部分,下地幔和液态外核似乎比较均匀,但核－幔边界过渡带(D″)可能代表一个内含非均匀化学边界的热边界层,其形态起伏和横向变化影响地球模壁的球对称性。3-D地震成象实质上反映地震波建与温度异常的关系．而温度变化又会引起密度异常,因而密度变化是控制地幔对流的关键参数之一。 相似文献
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The Fenlands of East Anglia, England, represent a subtle landscape, where topographic highs rarely exceed 30 m above sea level. However, the fens represent an almost full sequence of Quaternary deposits which, together with islands of Cretaceous and Jurassic outcrops, make the area of geological importance. This feature discusses the advantages of using 3D visualization coupled with high‐resolution topographical data, over traditional 2D techniques, when undertaking an analysis of the landscape. Conclusions suggest that the use of 3D visualization will result in a higher level of engagement, particularly when communicating geological information to a wider public. 相似文献
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地幔柱构造理论研究若干问题及研究进展 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
介绍了目前地幔柱构造理论研究中若干重要问题和最新进展,许多证据显示,地幔柱是严自于核幔边界附近的Ｄ″层发生热扰动并产生地幔柱的热动力源于外地核的不均匀加热作用;一个新启动的地幔柱在穿过整个地幔的缓慢上升过程会形成巨大球状顶冠和狭窄尾柱;地幔柱巨大球状顶冠会导致地壳发生上隆、区域变质作用、地壳深熔作用、构造变形作用和大规模火山作用,形成大陆或大洋溢流玄武岩;地幔柱狭窄尾柱的长期活动会在上覆运动板块上 相似文献
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The Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection (NMMC3D) application is calculating mantle convection models in 3D Cartesian domain.
Our main goal is to study the structure and the surface manifestation (topographic and geoid anomalies) of the mantle plumes.
The parameter study support tools of the P-GRADE grid Portal give an effective possibility to make an systematic investigation
of the parameters influencing the character of mantle plumes. In collaboration with the MTA SZTAKI Application Porting Centre
the NMMC3D has been ported to the SEE-GRID-SCI infrastructure. The paper introduces the steps that were taken to enable NMMC3D
application on gLite based grid infrastructure and some results of the calculations. The main parameters influencing the mantle
convection are the Rayleigh-number and the viscosity distribution of the mantle. In this paper the effect of these parameters
is investigated on the thermal structure and surface manifestations of mantle plumes. 相似文献
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核—幔相互作用及其地球动力学意义 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
核－幔边界是地球内部反差最大的一个边界,也是最重要的边界,界区的核－幔相互作用过程在整个地球动力学系统中起着重要的作用。本文在概述了该－边界基本特征的基础上,系统地总结了有关核幔物质的化学反应和Ｄ”层的形成,核－幔间的质量传递及其对地幔对流之贡献,核－幔耦合与动量传递等的研究成果及有关问题。 相似文献
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当人们使用长波长的地震层析数据利用地震波速和密度的实验关系外推而直接计算地球大地水准面异常时惊奇地发现，计算大地水准面异常和观测大地水准面异常无论在异常型态或者异常幅度上均相差甚远。因而不能将地幔看做“刚性”地幔，而真实的地幔应当是一“动力”的地幔，它的内部，甚至被看做固体地幔内部也存在物质流动，否则无法解释上述两种水准面的差异。地幔，特别是下地幔远比人们设想的要活跃得多。地幔内部存在一个复杂的热动力系统。全球规模的大尺度对流、上地幔范围的二级对流、层状对流、核－幔边界上部Ｄ″层内很小尺度对流以及地幔热柱形式的对流可能同时存在于地幔之中，它们相互独立又相互影响，而形成多层次、多形态的运动格局。为了进一步完善、丰富人类对其赖以生存的地球的认识，除了需要建立更为合理的非线性的地幔热动力学模型之外，更加精细的、更加精确的大地测量、地球物理和地球动力学观测资料是必需的。 相似文献
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Laurent Geoffroy 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2005,337(16):575
Compared to non-volcanic ones, volcanic passive margins mark continental break-up over a hotter mantle, probably subject to small-scale convection. They present distinctive genetic and structural features. High-rate extension of the lithosphere is associated with catastrophic mantle melting responsible for the accretion of a thick igneous crust. Distinctive structural features of volcanic margins are syn-magmatic and continentward-dipping crustal faults accommodating the seaward flexure of the igneous crust. Volcanic margins present along-axis a magmatic and tectonic segmentation with wavelength similar to adjacent slow-spreading ridges. Their 3D organisation suggests a connection between loci of mantle melting at depths and zones of strain concentration within the lithosphere. Break-up would start and propagate from localized thermally-softened lithospheric zones. These ‘soft points’ could be localized over small-scale convection cells found at the bottom of the lithosphere, where adiabatic mantle melting would specifically occur. The particular structure of the brittle crust at volcanic passive margins could be interpreted by active and sudden oceanward flow of both the unstable hot mantle and the ductile part of the lithosphere during the break-up stage. To cite this article: L. Geoffroy, C. R. Geoscience 337 (2005). 相似文献
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We present a thermophysical model for interaction between the conduit of a thermochemical plume and horizontal free convection flows in the mantle: The mantle flow incident on the plume conduit melts at the conduit boundary (front part) and crystallizes at its back. Geological data on the intensity of plume magmatism over the last 150 Myr are used to estimate the total thermal power of mantle plumes. A possible scenario for plume-related mantle recrystallization is proposed. Over the lifespan of a thermochemical plume, mantle melts and recrystallizes owing to the motion of the plume source and interaction between the plume conduit and horizontal free convection flows. The plume conduits can melt and recrystallize the entire mantle over a certain period of time. The model for the interaction of drifting plume conduits with mantle flows and the estimated total thermal power of mantle plumes are used to estimate the duration of plume-related melting and recrystallization of the entire mantle. The influence of mantle plumes on the convective structure of the mantle through melting is judged from the model for plume interaction with horizontal mantle flows. 相似文献
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Small-scale heterogeneity in the deep mantle is concentrated in the upper-mantle transi-tion zone(TZ),in the depth range 410-660 km and also at the bottom 250 km D region.This encour-ages a more detailed investigation of the potential for seismic reflectivity imaging by modelling hetero-geneous structures in mantle convection models including phase transitions of the TZ and D regions.We applied finite elements with variable spacing near the boundary layers in 2-D cylindrical geometry that allow for sufficie... 相似文献
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六十年代以来,由于卫星重力测量和计算技术的迅速发展,有些研究者,如Runcorn(1967)和Liu(1976-1980),根据卫星重力数据计算获得地幔对流及其应力场图象来研究全球板块构造和区域构造。愈来愈多的事实表明,构造运动不仅是地壳和岩石圈层物质运动的表现,而更重要的是地幔物质运动的反映。因此,本文应用作者计算获得的岩石圈层下面地幔流运动图象与大地构造及近代构造运动的资料相对比,探索我国岩石圈层下的地幔对流格局形成及其对构造运动的影响。 相似文献
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Understanding the dominant force responsible for supercontinent breakup is crucial for establishing Earth's geodynamic evolution that includes supercontinent cycles and plate tectonics. Conventionally,two forces have been considered: the push by mantle plumes from the sub-continental mantle which is called the active force for breakup, and the dragging force from oceanic subduction retreat which is called the passive force for breakup. However, the relative importance of these two forces is unclear. Here we model the supercontinent breakup coupled with global mantle convection in order to address this question. Our global model features a spherical harmonic degree-2 structure, which includes a major subduction girdle and two large upwelling(superplume) systems. Based on this global mantle structure,we examine the distribution of extensional stress applied to the supercontinent by both subsupercontinent mantle upwellings and subduction retreat at the supercontinent peripheral. Our results show that:(1) at the center half of the supercontinent, plume push stress is ～3 times larger than the stress induced by subduction retreat;(2) an average hot anomaly of no higher than 50 K beneath the supercontinent can produce a push force strong enough to cause the initialization of supercontinent breakup;(3) the extensional stress induced by subduction retreat concentrates on a ～600 km wide zone on the boundary of the supercontinent, but has far less impact to the interior of the supercontinent. We therefore conclude that although circum-supercontinent subduction retreat assists supercontinent breakup, sub-supercontinent mantle upwelling is the essential force. 相似文献