Articles | Volume 7, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-847-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-847-2014
Development and technical paper
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13 May 2014
Development and technical paper |  | 13 May 2014

Verification of an ADER-DG method for complex dynamic rupture problems

C. Pelties, A.-A. Gabriel, and J.-P. Ampuero

Abstract. We present results of thorough benchmarking of an arbitrary high-order derivative discontinuous Galerkin (ADER-DG) method on unstructured meshes for advanced earthquake dynamic rupture problems. We verify the method by comparison to well-established numerical methods in a series of verification exercises, including dipping and branching fault geometries, heterogeneous initial conditions, bimaterial interfaces and several rate-and-state friction laws. We show that the combination of meshing flexibility and high-order accuracy of the ADER-DG method makes it a competitive tool to study earthquake dynamics in geometrically complicated setups.

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