Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-1169-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-1169-2018
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GHOST: Geoscientific Hollow Sphere Tessellation

Cedric Thieulot

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I present the GHOST (Geoscientific Hollow Sphere Tessellation) software which allows for the fast generation of computational meshes in hollow sphere geometries counting up to a hundred million cells. Each mesh is composed of concentric spherical shells made of quadrilaterals or triangles. I focus here on three commonly used meshes used in the geodynamics/geophysics community and further benchmark the gravity and gravitational potential procedures in the simple case of a constant density.