[CIG-SHORT] Time step

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Christian Baillard <baillard at ipgp.fr>wrote:

> Hi developers,
>
> I do not want to stuff up the mailing list with all of my problems so
> that's why I'm sending this message to you personally.
>

Please please please send to the mailing list. The questions really do help
other people, and we cannot track anything
without that mechanism.

   Matt


> When running pylith I have a problem with the time step:
> File
> "/Users/baillard/pylith/pylith-1.9.0-darwin-10.6.8/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylith/problems/TimeStepUniform.py",
> line 87, in timeStep
>     "step of %12.4e." % (self.dtN, dtStable))
> RuntimeError: Current nondimensionalized time step of   5.0000e+00 exceeds
> the nondimensionalized stable time step of   4.6202e-02
>
> I use the same dt (5 yr)  and total_time (100 yr) as in the example given
> in the 2d/subduction problem.
> I really appreciate the support you are giving, it helps me a lot.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian




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What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
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experiments lead.
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