SOPALE Input/Output Documentation
Table of Contents
- Overview of SOPALE input and output files
- Setting up the initial model grids (Eulerian and Lagrangian)
- SOPALE grid conventions
- The initial regular grid
- Modifying the grid row spacing
- Perturbation of the rectangular grid
- Tracked interfaces
- Defining the initial thermal state
- One-dimensional temperature gradient
- Steady-state temperature field
- Defining the mechanical materials
- Material sets
- Density
- Bulk viscosity
- Angle of friction and strain softening
- Pore fluid pressure ratios
- Cohesion
- Creep
- Grain size sensity creep
- Nonlinear creep
- Peier's Law creep
- Material phase changes
- Defining the thermal materials
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal density
- Specific heat
- Frictional (strain) heating coefficient
- Internal heat production (radioactive heat generation)
- Placing the mechanical and thermal materials on the grid
- Defining "boxes" on the grid
- How boxes are combined
- Colouring the Lagrangian and Eulerian grids
- Mechanical boundary conditions
- Thermal boundary conditions
- Finite element solution
- The ALE (Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian) loop
- Lagrangian particle injection
- Isostasy
- Airy (local) isostasy
- Flexural (beam) isostasy
- Surface processes
- Erosion
- Progradation
- Sediment stratigraphy
- Waterloading
- Numerical aids for stabilizing models
- Surface smoothing
- Controlling surface slumping
- Lax stabilization
- Output files
- Regular Sopale output files
- "Matlab" output files
- Standard output (so.xout)
- Restarting a model run
- REFERENCE