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Introduction

  • What is the GWB?
  • GWB philosophy
  • How to use this manual
  • Bibliography

User manual

  • Introduction
    • Why would I need the GWB?
    • I found or have a GWB issue!
    • Referencing the World Builder
    • Developers, Contributors and Acknowledgments
  • Installation
    • What is in the Geodynamic World Builder package?
    • Installing the prerequisites
    • Stand-alone installation with all apps
    • Other installation methods
    • Running the tester
  • How to use the applications
    • The gwb-dat app
    • The gwb-grid app
  • Important GWB Concepts
    • The world is boundless
    • Features
    • Painting in the world
    • The current features in GWB
    • Constant angle in spherical domain issue
  • Basic Starter Tutorial
    • World Builder input file design
    • Your first input file
    • Optional parameter: coordinate system
    • Adding your first tectonic feature
    • Limit temperature with depth
    • Oceanic plate temperature
    • Subducting plate oceanic part
    • Adding a passive margin with variable depth
    • Optional adding mantle layer
    • Adding a basic subducting plate
    • Dip change in segment
    • Subducting plate temperatures
    • Subducting slab: adding a segment
    • Different models in segments
    • Different segments in sections
    • Changing to a mass conserving slab temperature
    • Adding a mantle plume
    • 2D models
    • Spherical models
  • Cookbooks
    • 3D Cartesian Rift
    • Mid-ocean ridge with a transform fault
    • Simple Subduction Model: 2D Cartesian
    • Simple Subduction Model: 2D Chunk
    • 2D Hydrated Subducting Plate
    • Big Mantle Wedge in Europe
  • Parameter Documentation
    • Features
      • Oceanic plate
      • Continental plate
      • Mantle layer
      • Fault
      • Subducting plate
      • Plume

API manual

  • API design
  • Available APIs
  • API in different languages (FFI)
    • C interface
    • C++ interface
      • ASPECT integration
    • FORTRAN interface
    • Python interface

Developer manual

  • How to start developing and contributing
    • required and recommended tools
      • Checking For Typos
      • Git
      • Astyle
      • IDE
    • Contributing to the GWB
      • Helping others
      • Making a pull request
      • Pull request review process
        • What is continuous integration?
        • Testers
        • Code coverage
        • Benchmarking
        • Documentation testing
      • Pull request merging
  • Contributing to the documentation
    • Building documentation
    • Important syntax
    • Documentation style guide
    • Documentation testing
    • The review process
  • Contributing to the code
    • Code documentation and Doxygen
    • Code conventions
    • Code Style Guide
    • Testing your code
      • Unit tests
      • Integration testers
        • App tester
        • Visualization tester
        • Wrapper tester
    • Tips and tricks
    • Review process
  • Developing for the GWB
    • Code structure
    • Creating new plugins
    • Changing or adding code
    • Creating new plugin system
    • Creating new tools
  • Source code documentation

Parameter listings

  • The World Builder file
  • Visualization Grid file

Project Links

  • GitHub
  • Doxygen
  • Chat
  • Repository
  • Suggest edit
  • Open issue
  • .md

Fault

Fault#

Todo

Explain how a fault works.

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