[CIG-SHORT] Pylith adaptive time stepping

[Brad Aagaard]

Ge,

Adaptive time stepping is currently implemented for viscoelastic bulk 
rheologies based on the relaxation time.

See sections 4.2.4.3 and 5.1.4 of the PyLith manual for more information.

Regards,
Brad

On 02/04/2015 07:18 AM, Ge Li, Mr wrote:
> Hi Brad,
>
> I’m a PhD student at McGill university. These days I’m trying to use pylith to do dynamic  simulations of earthquake cycles on a Rate and state fault surface driven by remote creeping loading.
> I have one questions about adaptive time stepping and hope you could help me with that.
>
>    1.  What’s the algorithm of adaptive time stepping in pylith? Could you suggest me some papers about it?
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated and Looking forward to your reply!
>
> Ge
>