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Yoshida & Kageyama 2004
Yoshida, M. and Kageyama, A. (2004). Application of the Yin-Yang grid to a thermal convection of a Boussinesq fluid with infinite Prandtl number in a three-dimensional spherical shell. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL019970. issn: 0094-8276.

A new numerical finite difference code has been developed to solve a thermal convection of a Boussinesq fluid with infinite Prandtl number in a three-dimensional spherical shell. A kind of the overset (Chimera) grid named Yin-Yang grid is used for the spatial discretization. The grid naturally avoids the pole problems which are inevitable in the latitude-longitude grids. The code is applied to numerical simulations of mantle convection with uniform and variable viscosity. The validity of the Yin-Yang grid for the mantle convection simulation is confirmed.

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Keywords
Tectonophysics, Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle—general, Tectonophysics, Dynamics, convection currents and mantle plumes, Tectonophysics, Rheology—mantle
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Geophysical Research Letters
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