2022 Crustal Deformation Modeling Workshop

2022 Crustal Deformation Modeling Workshop

June 20-24, 2022

Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

Tentative Agenda

Tutorials

About 60% of the time will be devoted to tutorial lectures with instructors providing background information and running examples. The other 40% of the time will be devoted to "tinker time" during which participants can run the examples at their own pace, develop their own simulations, and get help from the instructors.

Tutorials will cover the use of PyLith, Cubit, Gmsh, and ParaView. There will also be discussion of other modeling tools during the science talks.

Important

The current PyLith release is v2.2.2. The tutorials will cover PyLith v3.0.0, which we expect to release the first week of June. You can get a sneak peek of PyLith v3 by looking through the new online manual, which is available but still under construction.

TBD: Getting Started Help Session

1-2 weeks before the workshop, we will hold an online help session.

This online help session is intended to answer questions from users and resolve problems encountered during installation or running simple examples. The format will be an interactive Q&A session .

Monday - Tutorials 

These tutorials will provide a discussion of beginning and intermediate meshing and modeling topics. Prior to the workshop users should have installed the software and worked through some of the examples provided in the PyLith manual.

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast at Mines Market

8:00am - 8:15am

Introduction and overview of tutorials

8:15am - 9:30am

PyLith v3.0.0

9:30am - 9:45am

Break

9:45am - 10:45am

Static and quasistatic simulations without faults

10:45am - 12:00pm

Group exercise

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Quasistatic simulations with prescribed slip

2:30pm - 4:30pm

Group exercise

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Troubleshooting simulations

5:30pm

Dinner on your own

Tuesday - Tutorials

These tutorials will build upon the topics discussed on Monday.

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast at Mines Market

8:00am - 8:05am

Overview of tutorials

8:05am - 9:30am

Static Green's functions

9:30am - 11:00am

Tinker time

11:00am - 12:00pm

Gravitational body forces

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Tinker time

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Poroelasticity

3:00pm - 3:30pm

PyLith and CIG best practices

3:30pm - 5:30pm

Tinker time

5:30pm

Dinner on your own

Wednesday - Science Talks and Discussions

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast at Mines Market

8:00am - 8:15am

Introduction and workshop overview

8:15am - 8:30am

Participant introductions

8:30am - 10:00am

Session I: The earthquake cycle

• Matt Wei (Univ. of Rhode Island), Numerical modeling of earthquake cycles on oceanic transform faults (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Sharadha Sathiakumar (Univ. of Southern California), Earthquake cycles in Nepal (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Discussion (20 min)

10:00am - 10:30am

Break

10:30am - 12:00pm

Session II: The cycle continues

• Prithvi Thakur (Univ. of Michigan), Modeling the Effects of Fault Damage Zones on Long-Term Earthquake Sequences (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Dave May (Univ. of California, San Diego), A symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for seismic cycling (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Discussion (20 min)

12:00pm - 12:10pm

Airport transportation optimization (for departing)

12:10pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Tinker time

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Session III: What cycles do we believe?

• Kali Allison (Univ. of California, Davis), Thinking carefully about initial conditions in earthquake cycle models (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Brittany Erickson (Univ. of Oregon), The SCEC Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS) benchmarking effort: Findings and future directions (20 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Discussion (20 min)

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Break

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Poster Session

5:00pm

Dinner on your own

Thursday - Science Talks and Discussions

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast at Mines Market

8:30am - 10:00am

Session IV: Inverting for fault slip

• Thea Ragon (Caltech), Finite-fault slip estimates: how critical are structural heterogeneities? (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Simone Puel (Univ. of Texas), A mixed forward/inverse modeling framework for earthquake deformation problems (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Discussion (20 min)

10:00am - 11:00am

Break

11:00am - 12:00pm

Lightning Talks

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Lunch

12:45pm - 2:00pm

Tinker time

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Session V: Faulting, fluids, and surface loading

• Robert Walker (Univ. Buffalo), Implementing fluid-solid interactions with faulting in PyLith (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Hilary Martens (Univ. of Montana), Deformation of Earth by load tides, atmosphere, and continental water (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Discussion (20 min)

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Break

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Poster Session

5:00pm

Dinner on your own

Friday - Science Talks and Discussions 

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast at Mines Market

8:30am - 10:00am

Session VI: Mechanics beyond crustal deformation and Earth

• Colin Meyer (Dartmouth College), Thermomechanics of ice on Earth and in the outer solar system (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Alex Berne (Caltech), Adapting PyLith for multi-scale geodynamics modeling on planetary bodies (30 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Discussion (20 min)

10:00am - 10:30am

Break

10:30am - 11:15am

Modeling needs discussion

11:15am - 11:30am

Wrap-up discussion

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 5:00pm

Tinker time (for those still around)