Turning up the heat on Earth temperature modelling
Dr Ben Mather and Prof Louis Moresi from AuScope’s Simulation, Analysis and Modelling (SAM) program have recently developed a novel, …
Introducing Stripy
Geodynamicists from Sydney and Australian National universities have developed Stripy, a software module that allows scientists to …
Continuous Integration with Travis CI
A bit of a late-comer to this game, I've just discovered the merits of so-called “continuous integration”. In a Journal of …
May the 4th be with you...
In an Underworld release far, far away…
Geodynamicists struggle to model planetary dynamics due to the Cartesian Empire. …
Multiprocessing in Python
Most of the codes I develop run in parallel using MPI (Message Passing Interface) using the python wrapper, mpi4py. There is a reason …
The effect of palaeoclimate on heat flow data
One common method to determine heat flow in a well is to use a Bullard plot, which graphs thermal resistance (m$^2$K W$^{-1}$) against …
Invert geology
A method to relate the spatial configuration of mesh nodes to lithology that is differentiable - an adjoint to the inversion of …
Curie point depth
Computing Curie depth from the magnetic anomaly
Convert images to arrays
This is how you go from a jpeg to a csv
Analytical conduction adjoint
An adjoint to the analytical steady-state heat equation