[CIG-SHORT] Subduction + Thrust fault

Christian Baillard baillard at ipgp.fr
Mon Nov 25 09:56:23 PST 2013


Hi Matthew,

Drawing a fault with a brutal end in the visco-elastic material won't cause any edge weird behavior?

Christian

Le 25 nov. 2013 à 18:16, Matthew Knepley a écrit :

> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Christian Baillard <christian_baillard at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on the 2D subduction problem. The classical problem is now partially solved in my problem, indeed I would like to add a second thrust fault to my model (see figure attached).
> How can I add this geometry/problem to the classical 2D subduction problem? I'm solving the quasi static problem, I would like the second thrust to stop at the elastic/visco-elastic interface so what are the boundary conditions I should use? Is that even possible with pylith?
> 
> The first step is to mark the other boundary you want a fault on with Cubit (or your meshing program). Once
> you do that, you can create another fault in the .cfg file the same way as the first (with the new marker).
> 
>    Matt
>  
> Best regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
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