Higher-order Accurate Particle Methods Improve Models of Transient Geodynamic Processes: Benchmarks and Applications

Rene Gassmoeller1, Juliane Dannberg1, Elbridge Gerry Puckett2, Mack Gregory3, Cedric Thieulot4 and Wolfgang Bangerth5, (1)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Mathematics and Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), Davis, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics, Davis, CA, United States, (4)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)Colorado State University, Department of Mathematics, Fort Collins, United States