[CIG-SHORT] Kinematic fault convergence

[Charles Williams]

Dear Nick,

After a quick look at your mesh, it appears that there are a number of free surfaces still in your mesh, which indicates to me that you may not have merged things.  I am not certain whether that is responsible for your problems, but I would delete unused free surfaces and make sure everything is merged when you create your mesh.

Cheers,
Charles


> On 11/03/2017, at 12:28 PM, Nick Wogan <nicholaswogan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Charles or Brad,
> 
> Some simulations I am running with kinematic faults are not converging.. 
> 
> Attached is an example. W4_nofault.cfg and W4_withfault.cfg are the same simulation (and mesh) except W4_nofault.cfg has no faults implemented, while W4_withfault.cfg has two kinematic faults with 10 m of reverse slip prescribed on each fault. 
> 
> W4_withfault.cfg doesn't converge, W4_nofault.cfg does converge.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? What solver settings should I be changing?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick Wogan
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