Workshop on Community Finite Element Models for Fault Systems and Tectonic Studies

地球望远镜和相关活动将提供有关地壳如何在广泛的空间和时间尺度上变形的广泛学科的丰富数据。根据基本过程解释这些数据需要基于模型的推理。为了更好地了解地球过程，以及充分处理从大地测量学、古地震学、应力测量和地震学获得的越来越多的高质量数据，至关重要的是要投入大量努力来改进我们的模型。虽然在短期内(对仪器选址和指导更复杂方法的开发很重要)，我们可以通过相对简单的模型取得重大进展；最终需要大规模的计算工作才能公平地处理数据。我们计划于2004年8月16日至19日在洛斯阿拉莫斯举办一个为期三天的研讨会，有正式的讨论时间，但也有大量的时间进行动手工作。主要目标将是解决与复杂地质问题有关的问题。这个研讨会对EarthScope建模社区的所有感兴趣的成员开放；通过在LANL举办研讨会，我们可以利用当地在网格划分和解决大型有限元问题方面的专业知识。

EarthScope and associated activities will provide a wealth of data from a wide range of disciplines about how Earth.s crust deforms on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Interpreting these data in terms of the underlying processes requires model-based inference. In order to gain better understanding of earth processes, as well as to address adequately the high quality data that are increasingly becoming available from geodesy, paleoseismology, stress measurements, and seismology, it is crucial that substantial effort be devoted to improving our models. While in the short term (important for siting of instruments, and guiding development of more sophisticated approaches), we can make significant progress with relatively simple models; ultimately a large-scale computational effort is needed in order to do justice to the data. We plan a three-day workshop at Los Alamos, Aug. 16-19, 2004, with formal discussion periods, but also with significant time to conduct hands-on work. The main objective will be to address the issues relating to meshing complex geologic problems. This workshop is open to all interested members of the EarthScope modeling community; by holding it at LANL, we can take advantage of local expertise in meshing and solving large FEM problems.