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🌍 Earth Mantle Convection: Rayleigh Number, Plumes and the Blankenbach Benchmark

A cutaway slice of the Earth with a live thermal-convection solver in the mantle: raise the Rayleigh number past the 657.5 onset, inject plumes and cold slabs, and verify the solver against the analytic growth rate and a published benchmark.

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A cutaway slice of the Earth with a live thermal-convection solver in the mantle: raise the Rayleigh number past the 657.5 onset, inject plumes and cold slabs, and verify the solver against the analytic growth rate and a published benchmark.

Mantle ConvectionRayleigh NumberNusselt NumberPlumesBenchmarkThree.jsBlender

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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