High Pressure and High Temperature Properties of Minerals and Rocks

Renata Wentzcovitch, Columbia University

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Renata Wentzcovitch, Pedro da Silveira, Tao Sun, Han Hsu, Mehmet Topsakal, Michel Santos, Brent Swartz, Gaurav Shukla, Fawei Zheng

Geophysics advances by close cooperation between seismology, geodynamics, and mineral physics. Mineral physics addresses primarily properties required to interpret seismic tomography or used as input for geodynamics simulations. This project focuses on first principles calculations of high pressure and high temperature properties of minerals and rocks involving at least five major oxide components and tens of solid phases. To be useful, mineral properties must be investigated in a broad range of pressure, temperature, and chemical compositions. This is a massively parallel or high-throughput computational problem. In this project Blue Waters is used for calculations of unprecedented magnitude of mineral properties.

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