[CIG-LONG] Crash Error in TimeIntegrand

[María Helga Guðmundsdóttir]

Great, thanks for catching that. I'll take those lines out and run a test model to see what happens.

-M

María Helga Guðmundsdóttir
MS Student, Stanford University
Geological and Environmental Sciences
mariahg at stanford.edu

On May 8, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Walter Landry wrote:

> Walter Landry <walter at geodynamics.org> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> One thing I noticed about your input file is that in EulerDeform, you
> have the lines
> 
>  "staticTopFront": "True",
>  "staticTopBack": "True",
> 
> Those should be False or just not there.  That will induce grid
> distortion at outflow, because while the bulk is thinning, the
> boundary is kept high.
> 
> Cheers,
> Walter Landry

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