Contact

Name	Andy Wickert
Type of contact	Model developer
Institute / Organization	University of Colorado
Postal address 1	Department of Geological Sciences, UCB 399
Postal address 2	2200 Colorado Ave
Town / City	Boulder
Postal code	80309
State	Colorado
Country	US"US" is not in the list (Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, ...) of allowed values for the "Country" property.
Email address	wickert@colorado.edu
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Technical specs

Supported platforms	Unix, Linux
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Programming language	Python
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Code optimized	Single Processor
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Start year development	2010
Does model development still take place?	Yes
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Model availability	As code, As teaching tool
Source code availability (Or provide future intension)	Through owner"Through owner" is not in the list (Through web repository, Through CSDMS repository) of allowed values for the "Source code availability" property., Through CSDMS repository
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Program license type	GPL v3
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Typical run time	Minutes to populate cofactor matrix, ~1 second for solution

In/Output

Describe input parameters	Elastic thickness map (ASCII) Load map (ASCII) dx, dy Material properties Young's modulus Poisson's ratio density of load density of infilling material (optional; this can also be done via iteration for more complicated situations Only the elastic thickness and load need to be actual input files. The rest (scalars) can be specified at the command line interface.
Input format	ASCII
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Describe output parameters	Cofactor matrix (*.mtx sparse matrix file; ASCII) Flexural response map (ASCII)
Output format	ASCII
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Pre-processing software needed?	No
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Post-processing software needed?	No
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Visualization software needed?	No
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Process

Describe processes represented by the model	Response of a lithospheric plate, potentially with nonuniform elastic thickness, to an applied surface load
Describe key physical parameters and equations	[[Describe key physical parameters::We solve the PDE for lithospheric flexure in 2 dimensions: <math> \nabla^2\left(D(x,y)\nabla^2 w \right) + \Delta \rho g w = q(x,y) </math> Here, $D$ is the flexural rigidity, $w$ is the vertical displacement at each $(x,y)$, $\Delta \rho$ is the mantle density minus the density of infilling material, $g$ is gravitational acceleration, and $q$ is the applied load. We follow Wees and Cloetingh (1994) in acknowledging that flexural rigidity is a tensor property: <math> D = \frac{E T_e^3}{12\left(1-\nu^2\right)} \left[ \begin{array}{ccc} 1 & \nu & 0 \\ \nu & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & \frac{1-\nu}{2} \end{array} \right] </math>]]
Describe length scale and resolution constraints	Insufficiently tested to know.
Describe time scale and resolution constraints	Currently does not time-evolve. I would like to couple this to a 3D viscoelastic mantle at some point, but this hasn't happened yet.
Describe any numerical limitations and issues	Insufficiently tested to know.

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Command-Line Access

If you plan to make changes, use this command to check out the code as yourself using HTTPS:

# Project members authenticate over HTTPS to allow committing changes.
svn checkout https://csdms.colorado.edu/svn/flexure

When prompted, enter your CSDMS Subversion password.
Non-members may only check out a read-only working copy of the project source.
To obtain a CSDMS Subversion account or to become a member of this project, please email csdms@colorado.edu.
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