Introduction

Program 1: Visualisation_is_important.m (Exercise Introduction.2) – visualisation of ‘sin’ and ‘cos’ functions with ‘plot’, ‘pcolor’, ‘contour’ and ‘surf’.

Chapter 1

Program 2: Divergence.m (Exercise 1.2) – computation and visualisation of velocity, divergence of velocity and time derivatives of density with ‘pcolor’ and ‘quiver’.

Chapter 2

Program 3: Periclase_EOS.m (Exercise 2.2) – computation and visualisation of density, thermal expansion and compressibility for periclase (MgO) using external Gibbs free energy function G_periclase.m.

Program 4: Density_map.m (Exercise 2.3) – loading from data files (m895_ro, morn_ro) and visualising density maps for pyrolite (m895_ro) and MORB (morn_ro) and density difference between pyrolite and MORB.

Chapter 3

Program 5: Poisson1D.m (Exercise 3.1) – solution of 1D Poisson equation with finite differences on a regular grid using direct solver ‘\’.

Program 6: Poisson2D_direct.m (Exercise 3.2) – solution of 2D Poisson equation with finite differences on a regular grid using direct solver ‘\’.

Program 7: Poisson2D_Gauss_Seidel.m (Exercise 3.3) – solution of 2D Poisson equation with finite differences on a regular grid using Gauss–Seidel iteration.

Program 8: Poisson2D_Jacobi.m (Exercise 3.4) – solution of 2D Poisson equation with finite differences on a regular grid using Jacobi iteration.

Chapter 4

Program 9: Strain_rate.m (Exercise 4.2) – computation and visualisation of velocity field, strain rate, deviatoric strain rate, and second strain rate invariant.