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2016 Nov PyLith Dev Plans

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1 == !PyLith Development Plans, Nov 2016 ==
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3 Priorities for !PyLith software development, such as new features and enhancements. This a draft for community comment (Nov 7, 2016).
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5 This plan attempts to balance meeting short-term objectives of delivering high priority, new features and meeting long-term objectives of extending the code to solve a broader range of scientific problems.
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7 === Version 3.0 (Spring 2017) ===
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9 # Multiphysics [[Image(expert.png, 40px)]] 30%
10 * Implement modular approach for specifying governing equations and computing residuals and Jacobians. [[Image(expert.png, 40px)]]
11 * Incompressible elasticity via a pressure field [[Image(intermediate.png, 25px)]] 20%
12 * Poroelasticity [[Image(difficult.png, 25px)]] 5%
13 # Higher order basis functions {[[Image(difficult.png, 25px)]] 25%
14 * Allow user to select order of basis functions independent of the mesh (which defines the geometry). This permits higher resolution for a given mesh.
15 # Switch to using PETSc time-stepping (TS) algorithms. [[Image(intermediate.png, 25px)]] 25%
16 * Replace simple Python-based time-stepping implementations with PETSc time-stepping algorithms that provide support for higher order discretization in time and real adaptive time stepping.
17 # Improve fault formulation for spontaneous rupture [[Image(intermediate.png, 25px)]] 10%
18 * Removes inner solve associated with updating Lagrange multipliers. This will significantly accelerate the nonlinear solve.
19 # Allow full specification of the initial conditions (solution and state variables) [[Image(intermediate.png, 25px)]] 0%
20 # Update user manual
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* Convert from !LyX to !LaTeX for ease of maintenance and editing. {{easy.png}} [0%]
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* Convert from !LyX to !LaTeX for ease of maintenance and editing. [[Image(easy.png, 25px)]] 0%
22 * Reorganize for multiphysics implementation. [[Image(intermediate.png, 25px)]] 5%
23 * Reorganize examples. [[Image(intermediate.png, 25px)]] 0%
24 * Focus on demonstrating the range of physics and features beginning with simple cases and building towards more complex cases.
25 * Include !ParaView Python scripts for plotting results.
26 * Consider moving examples to Jupyter notebooks; export to PDF files for "print" documentation.
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28 === Version 3.1 (late 2017) ===
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30 # GUI interface for specifying simulation parameters [[Image(difficult.png, 25px)]]
31 # Add additional multiphysics implementations and rheologies
32 * Drucker-Prager bulk rheology with relaxation to yield surface [[Image(intermediate.png, 25px)]]
33 * Elasticity + heat flow [[Image(difficult.png, 25px)]]
34 # Reorganize output for time-dependent Green's functions and adjoints [[Image(intermediate.png, 25px)]]
35 # Multilevel nonlinear solve [[Image(expert.png, 40px)]]
36 # Radial basis functions for spatial databases [[Image(intermediate.png, 25px)]]
37 # Convert to Python 3 and Pyre 1.0.
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39 === Version 4.0 (TBD) ===
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41 # Earthquake cycle modeling {[[Image(difficult.png, 25px)]]
42 * Same mesh for dynamic and quasi-static parts (dynamic -> quasi-static, quasi-static -> dynamic, complete cycle)
43 # Create strain hardening/softening 2-D and 3-D Drucker-Prager elastoplastic models. [[Image(intermediate.png, 25px)]]
44 # Moment tensor point sources via equivalent body forces [[Image(difficult.png, 25px)]] 5%
45 * Moment tensor point sources provide a mesh independent deformation source that is better suited for Green's function calculations than slip on a fault surface via cohesive cells.
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47 === Features for Future Releases ===
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49 ==== Major features ====
50 # Earthquake Cycle Modeling
51 * Different meshes for dynamic and quasi-static parts [[Image(expert.png, 40px)]]
52 * Requires interpolation of fields between different meshes/discretizations and may require extrapolation of solutions when quasi-static problems span a larger domain than the dynamic problems.
53 # Data assimilation
54 * Use flexibility of multiphysics implementation to support inclusion of data assimilation [[Image(expert.png, 40px)]]
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56 ==== Minor features ====
57 # Begin implementation of data assimilation capabilities via adjoint equation.
58 # Combined prescribed slip / spontaneous rupture fault condition [[Image(difficult.png, 25px)]]
59 * Use fault constitutive model to control slip on fault except during episodes of prescribed slip. Need some way to describe when to turn on/off prescribed slip.
60 # Use threading to accelerate integrations on multi-core machines. [[Image(difficult.png, 25px)]]
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62 ----
63 ==== difficulty rating system ====
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||[[Image(easy.png, 25px)]] easy
66 ||[[Image(intermediate.png, 25px)]] intermediate
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68 ||[[Image(difficult.png, 25px)]] difficult
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70 ||[[Image(expert.png, 40px)]] expert
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72 ||
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74 ''based on the ski trail rating system''