[CIG-ALL] TOMORROW - CIG Webinar Thursday, April 11 @2 pm PT, Cian Wilson - TerraFERMA

[John Naliboff]

*THURSDAY, APRIL 11  @ 2P PT*
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TerraFERMA: a framework for rapidly building finite element models in 
geodynamics*
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/Cian Wilson, Carnegie Science, DTM/
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Modern, advanced, open-source computational libraries are giving an 
increasing amount of power to researchers to develop customized 
numerical models, tailor made for individual problems. While incredibly 
powerful and flexible, this approach raises questions about the 
reliability and maintainability of scientific models when each new 
problem is solved using a new script or piece of code. During this 
seminar we will discuss TerraFERMA, a model building framework built on 
the FEniCS, PETSc and SPuD libraries, that aims to increase the 
maintainability of models by providing a common core to all models 
designed using TerraFERMA’s interface. This core library allows updates 
to the underlying libraries to be implemented largely unseen by the user 
and for new functionality to be made available to all existing models 
without having to edit each one individually. Along with an extensive 
test suite, it also ensures that verifying one model provides some trust 
in another. We will discuss our goals in designing TerraFERMA, give a 
brief overview of its structure, demonstrate some examples of its use 
and discuss our future development goals./
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*Connect: *https://zoom.us/j/818491291
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*Additional Information*: https://geodynamics.org/cig/events/webinars/

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