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GeoFEST Progress
27 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Jay Parker, Gregory Lyzenga, Charles Norton, Margaret Glasscoe
GeoFEST Progress. June 23-27, 2008. Jay Parker, Gregory Lyzenga, Charles Norton, Margaret Glasscoe.
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Generating Green's Functions with Pylith
26 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Rowena Lohman
Generating Green’s Functions with Pylith. June 23-27, 2008. Rowena Lohman.
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General Unstructured Mesh Adaptation: Its Strengths and Weaknesses
26 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): M.S. Shephard
General Unstructured Mesh Adaptation: Its Strengths and Weaknesses. June 23-27, 2008. M.S. Shephard.
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Gale
26 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Walter Landry
Gale. June 23-27, 2008. Walter Landry.
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Development of Variational Data Assimilation for Active Tectonics Studies
26 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Kush Tandon, Gary Egbert
Development of Variational Data Assimilation for Active Tectonics Studies. June 23-27, 2008. Kush Tandon, Gary Egbert.
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CUBIT: Geometry and Mesh Generation Toolkit
26 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Emanuele Casarotti
CUBIT: Geometry and Mesh Generation Toolkit. June 23-27, 2008. Emanuele Casarotti.
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Crustal deformation in Iceland
26 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Freysteinn Sigmundsson
Crustal deformation in Iceland. June 23-27, 2008. Freysteinn Sigmundsson.
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Community Benchmarks
26 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Charles WIlliams
Community Benchmarks. June 23-27, 2008. Charles Williams.
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Workshop Final Report: Numerical Modeling of Crustal Deformation Associated with Earthquake Faulting
26 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Andrew Freed, Brad Aagaard, Carl Gable, Mark Simons
Workshop Final Report: Numerical Modeling of Crustal Deformation Associated with Earthquake Faulting. June 23-27, 2008. Andrew Freed, Brad Aagaard, Carl Gable, Mark Simons.
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Spectral-Element and Adjoint Methods in Seismology
11 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Jeroen Tromp
Spectral-Element and Adjoint Methods in Seismology. October 16-18, 2006. Jeroen Tromp.
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An Architecture for Composing Solvers
11 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Barry Smith
An Architecture for Composing Solvers - Case study of PETSc. October 16-18, 2006. Barry Smith.
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Going Beyond an Elastic Halfspace
11 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Mark Simons, Eric Hetland, Mark Turner
Going Beyond an Elastic Halfspace - CIG Short-Term Crustal Dynamics. October 16-18, 2006. Mark Simons, Eric Hetland, and Mark Turner.
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Plumbing the Depths: Computational Challenges for Magma Dynamics in Earth Sciences
11 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Marc Spiegelman, Richard Katz
Plumbing the Depths: Computational Challenges for Magma Dynamics in Earth Sciences. October 16-18, 2006. Marc Spiegelman, Richard Katz.
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An Overview of the Application of Newton-Krylov based Solution Methods for Nonlinear Multiple-time-scale PDE Systems
11 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): John Shahid
An Overview of the Application of Newton-Krylov based Solution Methods for Nonlinear Multiple-time-scale PDE Systems. October 16-18, 2006. John Shahid .
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Scalable Techniques for Scientific Visualization
11 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Claudio Silva
Scalable Techniques for Scientific Visualization. October 16-18, 2006. Claudio Silva.
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Modeling Geophysical Mass Flows – Mesh(Free), Model and Parameter Adaptivity
11 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Abani Patra
Modeling Geophysical Mass Flows – Mesh(Free), Model and Parameter Adaptivity. October 16-18, 2006. Abani Patra.
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Improving Scalability of Sparse Direct Linear Solvers
11 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): X. Sherry Li
Improving Scalability of Sparse Direct Linear Solvers. October 16-18, 2006. X. Sherry Li.
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Scientific and computational challenges in simulating fluid-rock interaction
11 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Mousumi Roy
Scientific and computational challenges in simulating fluid-rock interaction and its role in the long-term tectonics of continental lithosphere. October 16-18, 2006.Mousumi Roy.
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Grid Refinement and Parallel computing for mantle convection and Thermochemical Convection
11 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Scott King, Peter van Keken
Grid Refinement and Parallel computing for mantle convection and Thermochemical Convection. October 16-18, 2006. Scott King, Peter van Keken.
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Besides Teraflops: Getting More from Big Iron
11 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Tiankai Tu
Besides Teraflops: Getting More from Big Iron. October 16-18, 2006. Tiankai Tu.
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2019 The Release of the GEM Global Active Faults Database and Global Seismic Hazard Map
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Richard Styron
In late 2018, the Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM) released the initial version of several major products relating to seismic hazard and risk, including the Global Seismic Hazard Map, the Global Seismic Risk Map, and the Global Active Faults Database. Though these are intended primarily...
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2019 HeFESTO: A tool for exploring Earth's physical properties and their effects on mantle dynamics
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Lars Stixrude
The minerals that exist at the extreme pressure and temperature conditions of the mantle and their physical properties determine the dynamics of the mantle. Both are also critical for comparison with seismic observations that put constraints on our knowledge of mantle structure and...
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2019 Introduction to Quagmire
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Louis Moresi, Ben Mather, Romain Beucher
Quagmire is an open source, parallel python module for modelling surface processes and landscape evolution. It comes from the Underworld geodynamics group and has many common design patterns to Underworld. For starters, this is not an out-of-the-box landscape evolution code — it is instead...
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2018 Introduction to thermal-mechanical lithosphere models with surface processes
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Louis Moresi, Romain Beucher
Surface processes including erosion, transport and sedimentation have the potential to strongly influence crustal and lithospheric deformation whether passively, through isostatic response, or more actively by affecting the thermal structure, the potential energy field, and / or the local stress...
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2018 Pythonic Geodynamics
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Gabriele Morra, David A. Yuen, Sang-Mook Lee
Students and young researchers who want to learn to use computational tools for geodynamic modeling have the option to choose among a wide range of numerical tools. I will show how Python and its libraries represent an easy-to-use platform for self-learning, with performance close to compiled...
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2017 Geodynamic modeling with staggered finite differences and marker in cell: theory, teaching and examples
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Taras Gerya
Numerical modeling of geodynamic processes is an essential approach in both science and industry with ever- growing demand and high efficiency/cost ratio. Current trend in geodynamic modeling is to develop universal approaches with potentially unlimited number of applications. One simple...
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2017 Introduction to the spectral-infinite-element method
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Hom Nath Gharti, Jeroen Tromp
The governing equations for the elastic-gravitational deformation of an Earth model involve a perturbed gravitational potential. The gravitational potential is governed by Poisson’s equation inside the Earth and by Laplace’s equation in the rest of space. The infinite domain...
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2016 Software Practices in Computational Science Communities – an Overview
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Anshu Dubey
Scientific code developers typically adopt software processes derived from the mainstream (non-scientific) community when continuing without them becomes impractical. However, many software best practices need modification and/or customization, partly because the codes are used for...
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2016 Resolution analysis by random probing
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Andreas Fichtner, Tristan van Leeuwen
We present a new method for resolution analysis in tomography, based on stochastic probing of the Hessian or resolution operators. Key properties of the method are (i) low algorithmic complexity and easy implementation, (ii) applicability to any tomographic technique, including full-waveform...
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2016 Statistical and computational challenges of constraining greenhouse gas budgets
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Anna M. Michalak
Predicting future changes to the global carbon cycle (and therefore climate) and quantifying anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) both require an understanding of net GHGs emissions and uptake across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. This talk will explore some of the...
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2016 Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Models of Physical Systems
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Habib Najm
Models of physical systems typically involve inputs/parameters that are determined from empirical measurements, and therefore exhibit a certain degree of uncertainty. Estimating the propagation of this uncertainty into computational model output predictions is crucial for purposes...
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2016 Verification, Validation, and Predictive Capability: What's What?
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): William Oberkampf
Engineering and geosciences organizations must increasingly rely on computational simulation for the design, predicted response, and performance of manmade and natural systems. Computational analysts, decision makers, and regulatory authorities who rely on simulation should have practical...
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2015 ASPECT: From Benchmarking to 3D Subduction Applications
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Cedric Thieulot, Anne Glerum, Menno Fraters, Wim Spakman
ASPECT, the Advanced Solver for Problems in Earth's Convection, is an extensible open source, community supported code. The code is being applied to a broad range of problems in geodynamics. This talk will explore the community's efforts in benchmarking, implementation of...
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2015 An introduction to Virtual Quake
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Kasey Schultz, John Wilson
This webinar will introduce Virtual Quake, a boundary element code that performs simulations of fault systems based on stress interactions between fault elements to understand long term statistical behavior. The webinar will cover:Downloading, installing and running Virtual...
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2015 Simulating seismic wave propagation with SW4
04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Anders Petersson
This webinar describes how to use the SW4 code to simulate ground motion due to earthquakes. After a brief overview of the numerical method, we describe how to set up a simulation in terms of seismic sources, the material model, visco-elastic attenuation, and topography. We also present some of...
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2015 An introduction to BurnMan - a mineral physics toolkit
03 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Sanne Cottar, Timo Heister, Bob Myhill, Ian Rose, Cayman Unterborn
In this webinar we will introduce the extensible, open source mineral physics toolkit BurnMan. This software allows the user to calculate the elastic and thermodynamic properties of rocks, minerals, fluids and melts based on the properties of end-member phases. BurnMan is bundled with...
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CUBIT Geometry and Mesh Generation Toolkit
24 Jan 2021 | Contributor(s): Steve Owen
CUBIT Geometry and Mesh Generation Toolkit. October 16-18, 2006. Steve Owens.
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Modeling the geodynamo: Successes and challenges
24 Jan 2021 | Contributor(s): Moritz Heimpel
Modeling the geodynamo: Successes and challenges. October 16-18, 2006. Moritz Heimpel.
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Mesh Generation for Geological Applications
24 Jan 2021 | Contributor(s): Carl Gable
Mesh Generation for Geological Applications: Why it is Different Than Planes, Trains and Automobiles. October 16-18, 2006. Carl Gable.
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hypre - High Performance Preconditioners
24 Jan 2021 | Contributor(s): Robert Falgout
hypre - High Performance Preconditioners. October 16-18, 2006. Robert Falgout.
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Wave propagation in highly complex models
24 Jan 2021 | Contributor(s): Heiner Igel, Marco Stupazzini, Christoph Moder, Martin Kaser, Josep de la Puente
Wave propagation in highly complex models: grid generation–local time stepping-parallelization. October 16-18, 2006. Heiner Igel, Martin Käser, Josepde la Puente, Marco Stupazzini, Christoph Moder.
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Trilinos Overview
24 Jan 2021 | Contributor(s): Roscoe Bartlett
Trilinos Overview. October 16-18, 2006. Roscoe Bartlett.
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Using multi-cycle earthquake simulations to understand crustal dynamics
24 Jan 2021 | Contributor(s): Brad Aagaard
Using multi-cycle earthquake simulations to understand crustal dynamics. October 16-18, 2006. Brad Aagaard.