• Degree-1 mobile-lid mantle convection in a 3D spherical shell -- the "ground" state for the Earth's mantle convection and the cause for supercontinent formation [Zhong et al., Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2007].

• Two antipodal super-plumes resulting from interaction between degree-1 convection and a supercontinent -- the cause for African and Pacific superplumes? [Zhong et al., Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2007].

• Degree-1 stagnant-lid mantle convection in a 3D spherical shell -- the cause for Martian crustal dichotomy and Tharsis Rise [Roberts and Zhong, J. Geophys. Res., 2006].

• Domes in thermochemical mantle convection in a 3D spherical shell [McNamara and Zhong, J. Geophys. Res., 2004].

• Sublithospheric small scale mantle convection in 2D [Huang, van Hunen, and Zhong, J. Geophys. Res., 2003].

• Mantle convection with surface plates in a 3D spherical shell [Zhong et al., J. Geophys. Res., 2000].

• Degree-1 instability in 2D models with a small metallic core that may explain why mare basalt volcanism only happened in the nearside of the Moon [Zhong et al., Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2000].

• 3D Cartesian models of subduction of seafloor (Zhong & Gurnis, 1997, unpublished).

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