Assumptions and methods

• Basic equations
• Coefficients
• Dimensional or non-dimensionalized equations?
• Static or dynamic pressure?
• Pressure normalization
• Initial conditions and the adiabatic pressure/temperature
• Compositional fields
• Constitutive laws
• Numerical methods
• Approximate equations
• Choosing a formulation
• Advection Stabilization
• Free surface calculations
• Calculations with melt transport
• Calculations with Darcy flow
• Nullspace removal
• Particles
• Stokes solver
• Pressure Scaling
• Geometric Multigrid
• Choosing a nonlinear Stokes solver