Numerical simulation of earthquake cycles on oceanic transform faults

Project Title: Numerical simulation of earthquake cycles on oceanic transform faults
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Project Image: https://support.access-ci.org/system/files/webform/project/3970/earthquake.jpg
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oceanography (331)

Status: Halted
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Project Leader:
Matt Wei

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Project Description:
The objective of this project is to understand the fundamental spatial-temporal relationship of large earthquakes on oceanic transform faults, where is an ideal place to study earthquakes. Graduate student Lingchao He will use UNITY to build and run a numerical model with well understood physics to simulate earthquakes. One of the innovative aspect of this project is using additional physics that were ignored before. The effort will attempt to answer several fundamental questions related to earthquake cycles and shed new light on how earthquakes operate on faults. The results will be used as preliminary results for a NSF proposal.

This is the first time the model would be adapted to execute on the new UNITY HPC cluster – the student is expected to spend considerable effort on accomplishing that and finding the optimal settings for performance on that new machine. 


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Project Institution: University of Rhode Island -- Bay Campus
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Anchor Institution: CR-University of Rhode Island
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Project Urgency: Already behind3Start date is flexible
Expected Project Duration (in months): 6
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Project Milestones:
- Milestone Title: Milestone #1
  Milestone Description: determine project scope, HPC access, and code setup, launch presentation, GitHub project
  Completion Date Goal: 2023-09-01
- Milestone Title: Milestone #2
  Milestone Description: run simple testing on the code on HPC
  Completion Date Goal: 2023-10-01
- Milestone Title: Milestone #3
  Milestone Description: extensive testing and debugging
  Completion Date Goal: 2023-11-01
- Milestone Title: Milestone #4
  Milestone Description: explore parameter space and understand the simulation results
  Completion Date Goal: 2024-01-01
- Milestone Title: Milestone #5
  Milestone Description: wrap up simulations, write a report, wrap presentation
  Completion Date Goal: 2024-02-01

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