Geodynamics Workshop 2010
06.-08. October 2010
Wednesday 6th October
11.00
Registration and Welcome
12.30 Lunch
Mantle
Dynamics
14.00 Uwe Walzer, Roland Hendel
Mantle convection and the generation of geochemical reservoirs in the silicate shell of the Earth
14.20 Nicola Tosi, David Yuen, Ondrej Cadek
Lower mantle dynamics and the role of pressure-dependent thermodynamic and transport properties
14.40 Ana Catalina Plesa
The Influence of Partial Melt Generation on Mantle Density and Viscosity: Consequence for the Mantle Dynamics
15.00 Discussion and Poster Presentation
Poster: Maike Schubert, Robert Orendt, Lukas Fuchs, Eleni Tzoumerkiotis, Nicoleta Scurtu, Vladislav Aleksandrov, Suranita Kanjilal
15.30
Coffee and Posters
16.30 Marcus Beuchert, M. J., Harro Schmeling
A numerical investigation of the influence of density anomalies in the lower mantle on the geoid
16.50 Bernhard Steinberger, Trond Torsvik
A geodynamic model of plumes from the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity
17.10
Discussion
18.00 End
Thursday 7th October
Evolution
of Planets and Life
9.00 Tilman Spohn
Planetary Evolution and Habitability
10.00 Poster Presentation
Poster: André Fahl, Wladimir Neumann, Anna Maßmeyer, Tobias Rolf, Daniel Heyner, Alexandra Möller
10.30
Coffee
11.00 Guillaume Richard, Stephane Labrosse
Insights from two-phase flow numerical modelling
11.20 Jelle De Vries, A. P. van den Berg, W. van Westrenen
Numerical convection modelling of a compositionally stratified lunar mantle
11.40 Katharina Brannaschke
Self-organized layer formation in a solidified magma ocean
12.00 Lena Noack, Doris Breuer
Damped Frank-Kamenetskii Approximation for Temperature- and Pressure-Dependent Rheologies and Consequences for the Simulation of Super-Earths
12.20 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Vlada Stamenkovic, L. Noack, D. Breuer, T. Spohn
On the Problem of the Propensity of Plate Tectonics on Super-Earths
14.20 Claudia Stein, Julian Lowman, Ulrich Hansen
Thermal structure and lithospheric mobility of super-Earths
14.40 Wieland Dietrich, J. Wicht, U. C. Christensen
Lateral core mantle boundary heat flux variations as a model of Martian paleomagnetic field
15.00 Tobias Trümper, M. Breuer, H. Harder, U. Hansen
Numerical simulations of thermo-chemically driven convection and geodynamos
15.20 Discussion
15.30 Coffee
Mantle
and Crustal Dynamics
16.30 Harro Schmeling
Thermo-mechanical modelling with a free surface: the sticky air approach
16.50 Tobias Keller, Boris J. P. Kaus
Numerical modeling of two-phase flow: Interaction of partial melting with active tectonics
17.10 Katharina Vogt, Gerya Taras, Castro Antonio
Geodynamic regimes of crustal growth at active margins: numerical modelling
17.30 Herbert Wallner, Harro Schmeling
An advanced mechanism driving Rift Induced Delamination: Melt Induced Weakening
20.00 Social Event (Brauhaus Pinkus Müller)
Friday 8th October
New
Techniques and Concepts
9.00 Henri Samuel, M. Evonuk
The Numerical Advection of Discontinuous Quantities in Geophysical Flows Using Particle Level Sets
9.20 Christoph Köstler, M. Müller, J. Baumgardner, U. Walzer
Stokes Solvers for Variable Viscosity Mantle Convection
9.40 Jan Verhoeven, Stephan Stellmach
Extension of a Cartesian Geometry MHD Boussinesq Code to the Anelastic Approximation
10.00 Helmut Harder
Advantages and Disadvantages of Local Methods in Dynamo Simulation
10.20 Discussion
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Christine Thomas
Seismic Structures in the Deep Earth's Interior
12.00 Klaus Petschel, Michael Wilczek, Martin Breuer, Rudolf Friedrich, Ulrich Hansen
Investigation of Flow Reversals in Vigorous Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
12.30 Lunch
Core
Dynamics and Dynamos
14.00 Johannes Wicht, W. Dietrich, K. Hori
Equatorially anti-symmetric convection in rotating spherical shells
14.20 Julia Ernst-Hullermann, Helmut Harder, Ulrich Hansen
Precession driven dynamos
14.40 Kumiko Hori, U.R. Christensen, J. Wicht
The influence of fixed flux conditions on convections and dynamos
15.00 Coffee and final discussion – future outlook
