AxiSEM 1.4

Axially symmetric Spectral Element Method

Webpage and distribution: http://www.axisem.info Contact and information: info@axisem.info

April, 13, 2018

Citation

If you are publishing results obtained with this code, please cite this paper:

T. Nissen-Meyer, M. van Driel, S. C. Staehler, K. Hosseini, S. Hempel, L. Auer, A. Colombi and A. Fournier: "AxiSEM: broadband 3-D seismic wavefields in axisymmetric media", Solid Earth, 5, 425-445, 2014 doi:10.5194/se-5-425-2014 http://www.solid-earth.net/5/425/2014/

Content of the repository

manual_axisem_1.4.pdf - PDF manual

MESHER - The program to generate 2D meshes for the SEM forward solver

SOLVER - the SEM forward solver itself

submit.py - a Python script to create an Instaseis database

make_axisem.macros - macro file to set compiler options

copytemplates.sh - reset all input files to default templates

COPYING - The GNU General Public License

HISTORY - changelog

README - this file

Basic instructions for running:

More details are found in the manual. For a quick start:

The mesher has to be run first to generate a SEM mesh for the solver.
Any changes in the resolution, spherically symmetric background model, or number of processors requires a new mesh.
Changes in the source-receiver settings or 2.5D heterogeneities only need a new solver run.
Changes on the moment tensor, receiver components, or filtering only need a new postprocessing run.
Using Instaseis, seismograms for any depth or moment tensor can be calculated from the wavefield of one force source at the surface.

General settings and explanations for parameters needed in MESHER and SOLVER are found in the inparam_* files in the respective directories.

To create Instaseis databases quickly, run the script submit.py in the main directory.

Run copytemplates.sh to set up a generic run with pre-set parameters
Go into the MESHER directory, run ./submit.csh. This compiles the code using gfortran and mpif90 as default compilers, and then submits a job on a single node. For high resolution (seismic period below 3s), this requires significant amounts of RAM, see manual.
Check OUTPUT; if finished, then run ./movemesh.csh <MESH_NAME>
go into SOLVER, check the vtk files in /MESHES/<MESH_NAME> with Paraview, if you want
Edit inparam_basic to the desired <MESH_NAME>
Run ./submit.csh <RUN_NAME> , this compiles and then submits a parallel run.
Check <RUN_NAME>/OUTPUT*, which will record the progress of the run and any problems.
All data-related output is in <RUN_NAME>/Data/
Convolution with a STF and summation for a moment source is done by running postprocessing.csh in <RUN_NAME>
A more modern and efficient way of seismogram retrieval is using Instaseis, a Python toolbox to retrieve seismograms for arbitrary depths and moment tensors from the stored wavefield of one AxiSEM run (http://www.instaseis.net)

Detailed instructions can be found in the file manual_axisem_1.4.pdf

Installation

Generally, AxiSEM needs

a C and a Fortran90 compiler (typically gcc and gfortran)
MPI (typically OpenMPI)
NetCDF (not absolutely necessary, but needed to create an Instaseis database)

MacOS X

The easiest way to install the necessary requirements is homebrew (https://brew.sh/). If you have not installed homebrew itself yet, do so as described on the homepage. The preferred way (as of May 2022) is

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

and follow the steps therein.

Afterwards, install gfortran, openmpi and NetCDF with

brew install gfortran gcc openmpi netcdf hdf5-mpi

Linux

The necessary packages can easily be installed using APT

sudo apt install gfortran gcc libopenmpi-dev openmpi-bin libnetcdff-dev

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