[CIG-LONG] Faults do not depart away from the axis

[Walter Landry]

Garrett Apuzen-Ito <gito at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> (2) I originally set vz=0 on the top and bottom of the dike so that
> all of the imposed divergence is accommodated by the dike widening.
> This is the best way to control the rate of dike widening.  But this
> might prevent the dike from moving up in down naturally with the
> surrounding material.  Did you try only setting vz=0 on the bottom
> and not specifying vz (or vx) on the top of the dike?

In the input file I sent to Taichi, vy=vz=0.  If you don't set those to
zero you get a bulge, because material is being created in the dike
region and no where else.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
walter at geodynamics.org