Friday, May 22, 2015

[qxppouge] Modeling geology

Create a simple computational model of the geological processes inside a (simplified) entire earth.  Even a simple model does not seem so simple: heat, gravity, pressure, material phase changes.

Volcanoes, hotspots, plate tectonics are the ambitious goal.  Simulating a planet more violent than the earth would be fun.

Curiously, how powerful would a computer have to be to simulate in real time?  On one hand, it's a very complicated system.  On the other hand, geological processes are very slow.

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