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

EarthScope和相关活动将提供来自各种学科的丰富数据，说明地壳如何在各种空间和时间尺度上变形。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，以及充分解决高质量的数据，越来越多地成为可从大地测量学，古地震学，应力测量和地震学，这是至关重要的，大量的努力致力于改进我们的模型。 虽然在短期内（对仪器的选址和指导更复杂方法的开发很重要），我们可以用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正地对待数据。我们计划于2004年8月16日至19日在洛斯阿拉莫斯举行为期三天的研讨会，其中有正式的讨论时间，但也有大量的时间进行实践工作。主要目标是解决与网格化复杂地质问题有关的问题。 本次研讨会对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FEM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.