From: Wolfgang Bangerth Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:55:46 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Update a documentation page. X-Git-Tag: v9.2.0-rc1~1422^2 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F8329%2Fhead;p=dealii.git Update a documentation page. --- diff --git a/doc/doxygen/headers/geodynamics.h b/doc/doxygen/headers/geodynamics.h index 5af5ac50bc..9439b9898c 100644 --- a/doc/doxygen/headers/geodynamics.h +++ b/doc/doxygen/headers/geodynamics.h @@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ programs: Some of these programs were developed under contract from the California Institute of Technology with support by the National Science Foundation -under Award No. EAR-0426271, the grant that funded the Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics initiative. The recipient, Wolfgang Bangerth, gratefully acknowledges this source of support. @@ -54,10 +55,13 @@ geodynamics applications. It has been discussed in the geodynamics community for several years and has been a continuous topic on the task list of CIG since its inception. Yet, relatively little has happened in this direction so far. Only recently have there been attempts to use AMR in geodynamics: CIG -sponsored a workshop on AMR technique in Boulder in October 2007, and a +sponsored a workshop on AMR technique in Boulder in October 2007; a collaboration between George Biros, Omar Ghattas, Mike Gurnis, and Shijie Zhong's groups is currently developing a %parallel adaptive mantle convection -solver. +solver; and some of the principal developers of deal.II eventually developed +the ASPECT code for the simulation +of mantle convection that is by now a rather established and widely used +code. One of the reasons for the slow adoption of AMR techniques in geodynamics is the relatively steep initial hurdle: codes have to provide the data structures @@ -87,9 +91,10 @@ problems. In particular, they are aimed at the following goals: application specific behavior rather than using months of work on basic infrastructure code supporting AMR. - Supporting this point is the fact that although there are currently at least - 170 publications presenting results obtained with deal.II, we are aware of - only a handful of applications that have been built with deal.II from + Supporting this point is the fact that although there are + more than 1,000 + publications presenting results obtained with deal.II, we are aware of + only a relatively small number of applications that have been built with deal.II from scratch; all others have started as modifications of one of the tutorial programs. @@ -134,11 +139,8 @@ problems. In particular, they are aimed at the following goals: run on larger scale machines. For example, a small mantle convection code built on deal.II may be used to determine whether second order elements are useful for this purpose (see, for example, the results shown in - step-31). If so, then one may use this result to implement - second, rather than first, order elements in dedicated, large-scale mantle - convection codes such as that which - Ghattas and Zhong are building and that may run on 10,000s of processors, a - range currently unattainable by deal.II. + step-31). If so, then one may use this kind of knowledge in larger codes, + such as the ASPECT code mentioned above.