[CIG-SHORT] fault slip in 2-D

Brad Aagaard baagaard at usgs.gov
Mon Feb 4 08:40:41 PST 2008


On Sunday 03 February 2008, Ravi Kanda wrote:
> BTW, does it matter that the mesh is
> 2D in the XY-plane, and the UP-DIRECTION for the faults is [0,0,1] - or
> does Pylith figure out the correct sense based on input geometry?

The up-direction parameter is only used for fault surfaces in 3-D to resolve 
the difference between along-strike and up-dir directions. PyLith determines 
the orientation of the fault based on the geometry/orientation of the 
cohesive cells.

Brad


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