The Geodynamic World Builder(GWB) is an open source code library intended to set up initial conditions for computational geodynamic models and/or visualize complex 3d teconic setting, in both Cartesian and Spherical geometries. The inputs for the JSON-style parameter file are not mathematical, but rather a structured nested list describing tectonic features, e.g. a continental, an oceanic or a subducting plate. Each of these tectonic features can be assigned a specific temperature profile (e.g. plate model) or composition label (e.g. uniform). For each point in space, the GWB can return the composition and/or temperature. It is written in C++, but can be used in almost any language through its C and Fortran wrappers. Various examples of 2D and 3D subduction settings are presented.
For more information see the the GWB site, see the automatically generated extensive online User Manual or the automatically generated code documentation.
If you have a question about the code and you can not find the answer easily in the documentation or the question is already raised as an issue, please let us know by opening an issue on github. This is also the preferred method for asking for new features for GWB.
Please do not keep it to yourself and let us know. Others will also profit from mistakes being found and fixed. Even if it is just a typo in the documentation feel free to raise an issue or, even better, make a pull request to fix the issue.
The developers of the Geodynamic World Builder request that you cite the following publication:
Fraters, M., Thieulot, C., van den Berg, A., and Spakman, W.: The Geodynamic World Builder: a solution for complex initial conditions in numerical modelling, Solid Earth Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/se-2019-24, 2019.
And cite the specific version of the software used. Version 0.2.0 can be cited as:
Menno Fraters and others. 2019, October 23. The Geodynamic World Builder v0.2.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3517132.