[CIG-SHORT] error with mesh dimensions

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Francisco Delgado <fjd49 at cornell.edu>
wrote:

> Dear Pylith developers,
> I'm trying to run a simulation of a pressurised sphere surrounded by a
> viscoelastic shell and I get the following error
>
> *RuntimeError: Determinant of Jacobian (7.65279e-07) for cell 40 is
> smaller than minimum permissible value (1e-06)!*
>
> *The two most likely causes of this are highly distorted cells and
> nondimensionalization with a length scale that is much larger than the
> dimensions of the cells.*
>
> How can I solve it??
>

Is your non-dimensionalization length right for your domain?

   Matt


> Thanks
>
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> Francisco Delgado
> PhD student in Geological Sciences
> Cornell University
>
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