[CIG-SHORT] pylith - multiple faults

Christopher DiCaprio dicaprio at gps.caltech.edu
Tue Sep 18 18:24:40 PDT 2007


Brad,

I could not find the problem.  Could you try running these input files?

- Chris


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On Sep 18, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Brad Aagaard wrote:

> Chris-
>
> I cannot duplicate this behavior in a test problem. In my test  
> problem with
> two faults, each slips at the correct time with the desired amount  
> of slip.
> So it looks like the error is in your parameters. Nothing jumps out  
> at being
> wrong in your parameters.
>
> Try working with one fault at a time. Once you have the slip at the  
> desired
> time on each fault individually, then try combining them. You might  
> want to
> work with a small toy problem to find the error in your parameters.
>
> Brad
>
> On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Christopher DiCaprio wrote:
>> Another problem with my two fault model:  I've specified different
>> times for each fault to slip by specifying a different file for
>> slip_time.iohandler.filename.  However, both faults slip half their
>> total slip when only the first fault should slip, and they both go
>> the rest of the way when the second fault should slip.  Am I
>> specifying the fault parameters wrong?



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