[CIG-LONG] CIG-LONG Digest, Vol 44, Issue 21

[Patrice Rey]

Well done Walter!

Thank you very much for your hard work on assembling Gale 1.5 and for your tireless dedication to help the user community.

Many thanks and appreciation are also due to the Underworld developer team at Monash University for their fantastic work. 

Collectively, the people behind Underworld and Gale are helping the tectonics community to move forward...

Regards

Patrice 

Associate Professor Patrice F. Rey
EarthByte Research Group
School of Geosciences
The University of Sydney
+61 2 9351 2067
patrice.rey at mac.com
patrice.rey at sydney.edu.au


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>   1. Gale 1.5.0 (Walter Landry)
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> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:21:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Walter Landry <walter at geodynamics.org>
> Subject: [CIG-LONG] Gale 1.5.0
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> Greetings,
> 
> I am pleased to announce the release of Gale 1.5.0, an implicit finite
> element code for the long term tectonics community.  This release
> features checkpointing, deformed lower boundaries, multigrid, and a
> robust yielding rheology.
> 
> You can download binaries or the source code from
> 
>   http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/gale/
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> Installation instructions are in the bundled README and INSTALL files.
> 
> Cheers,
> Walter Landry
> walter at geodynamics.org
> 
> 1.5.0
> ----------------------------------
> 
> * The input file format has changed.  See UPGRADE for how to upgrade
>  your input files.
> 
> * The code from Underworld has been merged in and Gale now uses
>  Underworld's build system.
> 
> * Checkpoint and restart works.
> 
> * Multigrid is available as an optional solver.
> 
> * The bottom of the mesh can now be deformed. 
> 
> * There is a new script to convert VTK files to CSV (comma separated
>  values), which can be easily read by a number of programs.
> 
> * There is a new program to generate VTK movie files.
> 
> * A new example of a dike was added, and the tibet models removed.
> 
> * The Drucker-Prager rheology now has two parameters,
>  minimumViscosity and maxStrainRate, which greatly improve the
>  robustness and speed.
> 
> * The NonNewtonian rheology now has a melting temperature, above which
>  the viscosity is constant and independent of strain.
> 
> * Inflow boundary conditions work a little better.
> 
> * StrainWeakening now takes a shape strainLimitedShape and a parameter
>  strainLimit.
> 
> * HRS_Erosion, a new surface process, has been added.
> 
> * A number of StandardConditionFunctions have been added.
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