[CIG-LONG] Side moving in the wrong direction

[nicolas riel]

Thank you again Walter,

For the thermal problem, like you said in the previous mail, it is somehow
related to my configuration.

Cheers


On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Walter Landry <walter at geodynamics.org>wrote:

> Cc'ing the list.
>
> nicolas riel <a.nicolas.riel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Walter,
> >
> > I'm still working with the code and encountered some problems when
> running
> > a model with simple rheologies and without thermal properties. This model
> > (attached file) uses an inflow boundary on the left side with a wrapTop
> > condition (with or without a stressBC simulating isostasy on the bottom).
> >
> > The step 0 is going well but the step 1 crashes and gives this error :
> >
> > "side is moving in the wrong direction".
> >
> > Walter, do you think that an air layer with a staticTop instead of a
> > wrapTop  would fix this problem ?
> >
> > I would like to try it, however I don't know how to set the "maxAirY"
> with
> > the "json" syntax. I think that could be a good idea to add it in the
> > manual. This way one can fix the Top boundary with vy=0 and stabilizes
> the
> > model.
>
> I would not recommend using an air layer in general.  An air layer is
> only useful if the height gets very small.  For example, if you are
> simulating a wedge.  If you do want to use an air layer, you do not
> have to do anything special.  "maxAirY" is no longer needed because
> HydrostaticTerm is no longer needed.
>
> As for your current input file, you just need to fix the top left corner
>
>  "staticLeftTop": "True"
>
> > Moreover when I try to add the thermal properties for example in the
> > Geomod2004 benshmark, the thermal field at step 0 is always rough with
> > irregular boundaries.
>
> What do you mean by "rough"?  The bottom is set to 873 while the bulk
> is set to 573.  That is what I see.  What do you see?
>
> Cheers,
> Walter Landry
>



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