Dear Fabrizio Storti,
I would like to discuss with you the suitability of a possible
contribution to your session TS25 'Deformation of soft sediment:
interactions between gravity, compaction and tectonic stresses' at EGU
this spring. I hope you can give me some feedback.
We are considering submitting an abstract entitled 'The numerical
sandbox: Comparison of numerical with analogue model results for a
shortening and an extension experiment' by Susanne J.H. Buiter, Andrey
Yu. Babeyko, Susan Ellis, Taras V. Gerya, Antje Kellner, Guido Schreurs
and Yasuhiro Yamada
It will report on a study comparing numerical models of sandbox-type
experiments. We tested 2 designs: (1) a shortening experiment with a
"wall" being pushed into material representing sand layers with
different frictional properties; and (2) an extensional experiment
including a viscous layer with properties representing a silicone
polymer. Seven different numerical codes, both commercial and academic,
were tested against each other, and compared to equivalent analogue
experiments.
Do you think this would be a suitable contribution to your session?
With best wishes,
Susanne Buiter
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Dr. Susanne Buiter, Geological Survey of Norway,
Leiv Eirikssons vei 39, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Tel. +47 73 904265
Fax. +47 73 921620
Web: http://www.dal.ca/~sbuiter
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