[CIG-LONG] Gale stress tensor verse pressure output in .dat and vtk files

Walter Landry walter at geodynamics.org
Tue Aug 3 17:36:51 PDT 2010


John Naliboff <jbnaliboff at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Hi Walter,
> 
> Yep, the stress values make a lot more sense now that I've added the
> pressure back in.
> 
> So in general, would it be reasonable to say that the sum of the
> deviatoric stress values is a good indicator how large the
> compressibility term is (i.e. since the deviatoric stress tensor
> trace should sum to zero)?

I believe that is true.

> Also, what are some of the analytical solutions you tested for the
> side stress boundary conditions?  The few tests I've tried behaved
> reasonably well, but I'd definitely like to also try out some of the
> scenarios that don't give good matches to the analytical solutions.

I do not remember exactly what I did.  I am pretty sure it was before
I added the HydrostaticTerm component.  So it may work with that.

Cheers,
Walter


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