[CIG-LONG] Crash =?iso-2022-jp-3?B?GyQoUSN8GyhC?= Error in TimeIntegrand

[Walter Landry]

María Helga Guðmundsdóttir <mariahg at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hi Walter,
> 
> I've been running the restraining bend models that George Hilley has
> been troubleshooting with you lately, with mixed results. Two of
> them have run fine upto the amount of displacement we want, but
> another four models have crashed in an identical fashion at
> completely different points during the run (timesteps 8, 11, 90, and
> 289 respectively, with total displacements of 4, 10, 17, and
> 37km).

The problem is the mesh distortion.  I am attaching a picture taken
from the inside, and you can see that the height of the mesh almost
goes to zero.  I am not sure what to do about this. What do you change
between the runs that work and the runs that do not?

Cheers,
Walter Landry

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