NUMERICAL MODELS OF PLATE TECTONICS, MANTLE CONVECTION AND SLAB DYNAMICS WITH EVOLVING FAULTS

我们计划开发一种模拟大规模 地质结构， 构造断层的三维模型 目前的计算机模型在板块上有尖锐的地质断层 边界由宽而模糊的区域表示。 新技术 用于工程结构中的裂缝建模将按比例扩大到 整个地球 这将有助于我们了解地球板块如何移动， 现在和过去的相互作用以及大陆的结构 升起。 这不仅本身很有趣， 对地质建模者也有直接的实际好处。

We plan to develop a method for simulating large-scale geological structures with a much improved treatment of tectonic faults in 3D. Current computer models have sharp geological faults at plate boundaries represented by broad, blurred zones. New techniques for modeling cracks in engineering structures will be scaled up to the whole Earth. This will help us to understand how the Earth's plates move and interact now and in the past and how the structure of the continents arose. Not only is this intrinsically interesting, it will also be of immediate practical benefit to geological modelers.