Crustal Deformation Modeling Workshop Agenda
Agenda for the June 26-30, 2017, Crustal Deformation Modeling Tutorials and Workshop
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Presentation Slides and Videos
Slides and videos for Mon-Tue tutorials
Workshop Report and Slides for Wed-Fri science presentations
Tutorials
About 60% of the time will be devoted to tutorial lectures with instructors providing background information and running examples. The other 40% of the time will be devoted to "tinker time" during which participants can run the examples at their own pace, develop their own simulations, and get help from the instructors.
A description of the software tools and general workflow used in crustal deformation modeling is available in the Short-Term Crustal Dynamics Work Area under General Information. Tutorials will cover the use of PyLith, CUBIT/Trelis, and ParaView. There will also be discussion of some other modeling tools during the Science Talks.
Beginner Tutorials
Beginner tutorials for PyLith and CUBIT/Trelis will not be offered at the workshop. Beginner users should work through the extensive set of examples in the PyLith manual and online tutorial.
Wednesday June, 21, 1:00pm PDT: PyLith, CUBIT/Trelis, and ParaView Help Session
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/591763767
This online help session is intended to answer questions from users and resolve problems encountered during installation or running simple examples. The format will be an interactive Q&A session.
Monday - Intermediate Tutorials
These tutorials will provide a discussion of intermediate PyLith/CUBIT topics. Prior to the workshop users should have installed the software and worked through the examples provided in the PyLith manuals.
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Mines Market
- 8:00am - 8:15am
- Introduction and overview of tutorials, Brad Aagaard
- 8:15am - 9:00am
- PyLith and CUBIT/Trelis Refresher, Brad Aagaard
- 9:00am - 10:30am
- Meshing with complex geometry, Charles Williams
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Group Exercise
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm
- Dirichlet boundary conditions and prescribed earthquake slip, Brad Aagaard
- 2:30pm - 4:30pm
- Group Excercise
- 4:30pm - 5:40pm
- Troubleshooting PyLith simulations, Brad Aagaard
- 5:30pm
- Dinner on your own
Tuesday - Intermediate Tutorials
These tutorials will build upon the topics discussed on Monday.
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Mines Market
- 8:00am - 8:05am
- Overview of tutorials, Brad Aagaard
- 8:05am - 9:30am
- Fault friction, Brad Aagaard
- 9:30am - 9:45am
- Break
- 9:45am - 11:00am
- Static Green's functions, Charles Williams
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Tinker Time
Dedicated time for running example problems or benchmarks that are distributed with respective codes. This is the primary opportunity to interact with developers one-on-one.
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Gravitational body forces, Charles Williams
- 2:00pm - 4:30pm
- Tinker time
- 4:30pm - 5:30pm
- Demonstration of PyLith v3.0, Brad Aagaard
- 5:30pm
- Dinner on your own
Wednesday - Science Talks and Discussions
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Mines Market
- 8:00am - 8:15am
- Introduction and overview of workshop, Brad Aagaard
- 8:15am - 8:30am
- Participant introductions
- 8:30am - 10:30am
- Session I
- Lucile Bruhat (Stanford) Using deformation rates in Northern Cascadia to constrain time-dependent stress- and slip-rate on the megathrust
- Josie Nevitt (USGS) Distinct effects of compliant zones and elastoplasticity on the mechanics of shallow faulting
- 10:30am - 11:00am
- Break
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Session II
- Ben Thompson (Harvard) Next generation boundary elements applied to earthquake models with topography and material contrasts
- 12:00pm - 12:10pm
- Airport transportation optimization (for departing)
- 12:10pm - 12:45pm
- Lunch
- 12:45pm - 2:00pm
- Tinker Time
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Session III
- Eileen Evans (USGS) Geodesy for understanding earthquake hazard
- 3:00pm - 5:30pm
- Lightning Talks and Poster Session
- 5:30pm
- Dinner on your own
Thursday - Science Talks and Discussions
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Mines Market
- 8:00am - 10:00am
- Session IV
- Chris Johnson (UC Berkeley) Seasonally varying stress on California faults
- Birendra Jha (USC) Coupled flow and geomechanics of petroleum reservoirs, aquifers, and faults
- 10:00am - 10:30am
- Break
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Breakout Discussion I
- Brad Aagaard (USGS), Introduction to Breakout Discussion
- Topic A: Imaging fault slip: geodetic vs geologic, elastic vs plastic, etc
- Topic B: What is a community rheology model to you and how would you use it?
- Topic C: New directions in crustal deformation modeling
- 12:00pm - 12:45pm
- Lunch
- 12:45pm - 2:00pm
- Tinker Time
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Session V
- Valere Lambert (Caltech) Modeling the interaction between fault slip and viscoelastic deformation
- Brittany Erickson (Portland State) Modeling plasticity throughout the earthquake cycle with ruptures into near surface sediments
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Poster Session
- 5:30pm
- Dinner on your own
Friday - Science Talks and Discussions
- 7:00am - 8:00am
- Breakfast at Mines Market
- 8:00am - 10:00am
- Session VI: 2016 Kaikoura, New Zealand, Earthquake
- Charles Williams (GNS Science) A geodetic and seismic overview of the Kaikoura earthquake
- Mark Hemphill-Haley (Humboldt State) The Kaikoura earthquake: An extremely complex surface rupture event
- 10:00am - 10:30am
- Break
- 10:30am - 11:15am
- Breakout Discussion II
- Topic: What are the primary obstacles you face in your research? How can they be lowered?
- 11:15am - 11:45am
- Reports from Breakout Discussions
- 11:45am - 12:00pm
- Wrap up, Brad Aagaard
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Lunch
- 1:00pm - 5:00pm
- Tinker Time (for those still around)
