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Community-Driven Code Comparisons for Simulations of Fluid-Induced Aseismic Slip
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  • Valere Lambert,
  • Brittany Erickson,
  • Junle Jiang,
  • Eric M Dunham,
  • Taeho James Kim,
  • Jean-Paul Ampuero,
  • Ryosuke Ando,
  • Frédéric Cappa,
  • Pierre Dublanchet,
  • Ahmed Elbanna,
  • Yuri Fialko,
  • Alice-Agnes Gabriel,
  • Nadia Lapusta,
  • Meng Li,
  • Jasper Marcum,
  • David May,
  • Md Shumon Mia,
  • So Ozawa,
  • Casper Pranger,
  • Pierre Romanet,
  • Marco Maria Scuderi,
  • Ylona van Dinther,
  • Yuyun Yang,
  • Jeena Yun
Valere Lambert
University of California, Santa Cruz

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Brittany Erickson
University of Oregon
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Junle Jiang
University of Oklahoma
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Eric M Dunham
Stanford University
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Taeho James Kim
California Institute of Technology
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Jean-Paul Ampuero
Institut de recherche pour le developpement
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Ryosuke Ando
University of Tokyo
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Frédéric Cappa
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, IRD, Géoazur
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Pierre Dublanchet
MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University
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Ahmed Elbanna
University of Illinois Urbana
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Yuri Fialko
UCSD
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Alice-Agnes Gabriel
Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich
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Nadia Lapusta
California Institute of Technology
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Meng Li
Utrecht University
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Jasper Marcum
University of California, Santa Barbara
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David May
UC San Diego
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Md Shumon Mia
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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So Ozawa
University of Tokyo
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Casper Pranger
LMU Munich
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Pierre Romanet
Géoazur, Sophia-Antipolis, France
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Marco Maria Scuderi
La Sapienza Università di Roma
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Ylona van Dinther
Utrecht University
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Yuyun Yang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Jeena Yun
University of California, San Diego
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Abstract

Numerical simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS) have rapidly progressed to address fundamental problems in fault mechanics and provide self-consistent, physics-based frameworks to interpret and predict geophysical observations across spatial and temporal scales. To advance SEAS simulations with rigor and reproducibility, we pursue community efforts to verify numerical codes in an expanding suite of benchmarks. Here we present code comparison results from a new set of benchmark problems BP6-QD-A/S/C that consider a single aseismic slip transient induced by changes in pore fluid pressure consistent with fluid injection and diffusion in fault models with different treatments of fault friction. Ten modeling groups participated in problems BP6-QD-A and BP6-QD-S considering rate-and-state fault models using the aging and slip law formulations for frictional state evolution, respectively, allowing us to explore these ingredients across multiple codes and better understand how various computational factors affect the simulated evolution of pore pressure and aseismic slip. Comparisons of problems using the aging versus slip law illustrate how models of aseismic slip can differ in the timing and amount of slip achieved with different treatments of fault friction given the same perturbations in pore fluid pressure. We achieve excellent quantitative agreement across participating codes, with further agreement being found by ensuring sufficiently fine time-stepping and consistent treatment of remote boundary conditions. Our benchmark efforts offer a community-based example to reveal sensitivities of numerical modeling results, which is essential for advancing multi-physics SEAS models to better understand and construct reliable predictive models of fault dynamics.
29 Oct 2024Submitted to ESS Open Archive
30 Oct 2024Published in ESS Open Archive