[CIG-SHORT] Fwd: rheology model in pylith

[Charles Williams]

Thanks, Eric.  I haven’t looked through this in detail yet, but it should be very useful for people using various viscoelastic models.

Cheers,
Charles


> On 31/01/2015, at 5:28 am, Eric Hetland <ehetland at umich.edu> wrote:
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> As it is, I am covering this in a class right now. Attached is a document I use deriving the equivalence of the parameters in either a general Maxwell or Kelvin. There are some checks on the derivations, so I think it is correct, but please let me know if it doesn't seem like its working...
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> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Brad Aagaard <baagaard at usgs.gov <mailto:baagaard at usgs.gov>> wrote:
> Zhen,
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> Charles Williams is more familiar with how to setup the generalized Maxwell model to match some common viscoelastic rheologies than I am. I am reposting this question to cig-short and cc'ing Charles.
> 
> Brad
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> Subject:        rheology model in pylith
> Date:   Fri, 30 Jan 2015 02:15:43 +0000
> From:   Liu, Zhen (329A) <Zhen.Liu at jpl.nasa.gov <mailto:Zhen.Liu at jpl.nasa.gov>>
> To:     baagaard at usgs.gov <mailto:baagaard at usgs.gov> <baagaard at usgs.gov <mailto:baagaard at usgs.gov>>
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> Hi Brad,
> 
> How are you? We have email communication before about CIG workshop. At
> present I am looking into the Pylith to see if I can use it in my
> research. I notice that current pylith has Bulk rheology models
> including Elastic model, Linear Maxwell viscoelastic models, Generalized
> Maxwell viscoelastic models, Power-law viscoelastic model,
> Drucker-Prager elastoplastic model. I am interested in adopting
> bi-viscous Burgers rheology, which is the Kelvin-voigt plus maxwell
> rheology in series. Do you know if this is something already in Pylith
> or need to be implemented?
> 
> I understand that Kelvin-voigt and Maxwell rheology can be represented
> as special case from generalized maxwell viscoelastic models. But it is
> less clear to me how to represent the Burgers theology from the
> generalized maxwell model (or not). Your any insight would be much
> appreciated!
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help,
> 
> Best regards,
> Zhen
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> Dr. Zhen Liu
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