[CIG-LONG] Gale 2.0.1
Eric Heien
emheien at ucdavis.edu
Tue Sep 4 15:02:21 PDT 2012
Hi Laetitia,
I restored the links to 1.6.1 binaries and source on the website, now both 2.0.1 and 1.6.1 are available at:
http://www.geodynamics.org/cig/software/gale/
Let me know if you need anything else,
-Eric
On Sep 3, 2012, at 8:51 AM, Laetitia Le Pourhiet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been asked this question by some people including eunso.
>
> Somehow, the link to gale 1.6.1 has been removed from the webage
> and it is not in the user manual anymore.
>
> I still have the mercurial links to this version in the repository but
> it could be nice for people who would like to run Q1Q1 with multigrid
> to have the latest tarball of 1.6.1 on the website as well as the
> mercurial links.
>
> many thanks,
>
> Laetitia
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Walter Landry <wlandry at caltech.edu> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I am pleased to announce the release of Gale 2.0.1, a finite element
>> code for the long term tectonics community. The main feature of this
>> release is the addition of a stabilizing term for models with a free
>> surface. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade. The release notes are
>> attached below.
>>
>> You can download binaries or the source code from
>>
>> http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/gale/
>>
>> Installation instructions are in the bundled README and INSTALL files.
>>
>> My last day at CIG is this Friday. So if you run into problems,
>> please direct any questions to the mailing list at
>> cig-long at geodynamics.org.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Walter Landry
>>
>> 2.0.1
>> ----------------------------------
>>
>> * A free surface stabilization term has been implemented. This
>> applies a non-linear damping term to all models by default.
>>
>> * The temperature mesh has been changed to be Q2, the same as the
>> velocity mesh. This fixes problems when running thermal problems
>> with distorting meshes.
>>
>> * Documentation has been added for modeling density and expansivity
>> changes as an arbitrary function of pressure and/or temperature. This
>> is a simple way of modeling phase transitions.
>>
>> * You may now specify a moving static side. This is useful when
>> modeling a moving wall boundary that only covers part of the
>> boundary.
>>
>> * You may now use up to 30 different files for input as boundary
>> conditions etc.
>>
>> * A bug in parsing equations with "<" has been fixed.
>>
>> * There is now a single binary for Mac 10.5 and later. 10.4 and
>> earlier are no longer supported.
>>
>> * The configure script now accepts --linkflags.
>>
>> * Fix a bug when compiling Gale without HDF5.
>>
>> * Checkpointing now occurs on the first solve, before taking a time step.
>>
>> * Gale now works with Petsc 3.2.
>>
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