CLAWPACK

Tsunami arising offshore Maule, Chile, Feb. 27, 2010

This is a modified version of $CLAW/geoclaw/examples/tsunami/chile2010. See that directory and README for more information about the problem and data.

Adjoint flagging

The adjoint method is used to flag cells needing refinement, as described in the papers:

Folder Organization

  • adjoint:

    Contains code to solve the adjoint problem.

    The output times specified in this directory should to at least as far out in time as the forward solution is desired, with sufficiently dense outputs to properly capture the evolving adjoint solution.

Running the Code

Go to the folder adjoint and run in a terminal:

make topo  # downloads topo data and creates adjoint initial hump
make new   # compile everything
make .plots

The code will produce two new folders: _output and _plots. The first one contains all the output files, while the latter one contains the plots and interactive visualization apps.

Then return to this directory and

make topo # created dtopo file modeling earthquake make new make .plots

to run the forward solution and make plots that also show the inner product of the forward and adjoint solution on levels 1 and 2 (not on level 3 since there is no need to flag further in this 3-level run).

Alternatively, to run first the adjoint and then the forward problem a single script can be invoked.

Running Variations

In setrun.py, the following flags are currently set (in various places):

adjointdata.use_adjoint = True

# Flag for refinement using routine flag2refine:
amrdata.flag2refine = True
rundata.amrdata.flag2refine_tol = 0.0005

# time period of interest:
adjointdata.t1 = rundata.clawdata.t0
adjointdata.t2 = rundata.clawdata.tfinal

Setting adjointdata.use_adjoint to False will go back to using standard flagging based on the magnitude of undivided differences or an estimate of the one-step error. Flagging based on Richardson estimate of the 1-step error does not generally work well in GeoClaw (with or without the adjoint inner product), so using flag2refine is recommended.

The refinement tolerance is set appropriate for the adjoint flagging. Note that waves are no longer refined after passing the DART gauge. The location of interest is specified in adjoint/maketopo.py, where the functional used as initial data (at the final time) in the adjoint problem is set to be a Gaussian hump centered at the DART gauge location.

The time period of interest can be changed to some subset of the full run time. Try changing this to see how the AMR adapts to only capture waves reaching the gauge over a shorter specified time period, e.g. try t1 = 3*3600. and t2 = 4.5*3600. to capture only the leading wave at the gauge.

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Version

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  • Updated for v5.8.0