[CIG-SHORT] Buried Penny-shaped Fracture Modeling

[Brad Aagaard]

Farrokh,

You need to mark the buried edges of the fault. Please see the PyLith 
manual and Step 2 of Session IV: Debugging at 
https://wiki.geodynamics.org/software:pylith:cdm2015.

Regards,
Brad


On 03/20/2017 09:15 AM, Farrokh Sheibani wrote:
> Dear Brad and Charles,
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> Thank you so much for the help regarding my question about modeling
> nonuniform friction properties distribution.
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> I have another question about modeling a buried fault. I am trying to
> model acoustic emission in cylindrical sample due to fault sliding. I
> want to model a Penny-shaped buried fracture on the surface of a fault.
> My problem is that Pylith attaches adjacent elements to the boundaries
> of the Penny-shaped fracture, so the edge of the circular fracture is
> distorted and the fracture is no longer a planar fracture. I attached a
> picture of the geometry from Trelis, a picture of distorted circular
> fracture which comes from Pylith output, and also the jou Trelis input
> file used for the meshing.
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> I also put these files in the following link:
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> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oe5s6kpd6o173vd/AADSrIpLZ_IFVEDgDLqpCo_Ha?dl=0
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> I was wondering if you would help me regarding this problem.
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> Thank you so much again for all helps!
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> With best regards,
>
> Farrokh
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> Farrokh Sheibani, PhD
> Postdoctoral Research Associate
> Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Earth Resources
> Laboratory
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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