Work Plan

2014-2015

Science Goals and Objectives

Long Term Goal: Provide flexible multi-physics modeling capability and training for the exploration of coupled fluid-solid mechanics with an emphasis on the dynamics of magmatic plate-boundaries.

Short Term Goal. Release a general multi-physics modeling capability for plate-boundary scale magma-dynamics problems.

Short-Intermediate Term Goal. Develop better PETSc support for multi-physics problems and demonstrate with a PETSc-only ridge model.

Intermediate Term Goal. Develop a core group of users, and documented examples.

Activities in Support of Goals and Objectives

Activity 1: Release TerraFERMA and contribute to CIG’s open source repository.

Activity 2. Begin development on PETSc-based infrastructure.

Activity 3. Community development, training and support.

Outreach & Professional Development

Virtual workshop/training sessions in 2014 followed by a general multi-physics workshop sometime in 2015, possibly in coordination with other CIG meetings.
TF training sessions focusing on magma-dynamics and general multi-physics problems as well as more general training/short courses in computational math possibly in conjunction with CIDER.
Development of Educational Modules
Synergistic activities. Tutorials/short courses in cooperation with other organizations e.g. CIDER.

Past Activity

2013-2014

TerraFERMA, the Transparent Finite Element Rapid Model Assembler, written by Cian Wilson (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University), is currently available as a pre-alpha developers release at https://bitbucket.org/tferma/tferma. The code is currently being revised to implement new features and improve the documentation before general release.