Techniques for including large deformations associated with salt and
non-vertical fault motion in basin modeling
Ulisses T. Mello and Michael E. Henderson
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598.
In this paper we propose a series of numerical and geometrical
techniques that make possible to model geological processes with large
deformation and complex geometry within sedimentary basin and
lithosphere. These techniques facilitate the process of automatic meshing
and remeshing of the geological model necessary for the solution of the
differential equations governing geological processes. In addition, we show
an efficient representation of geological structures that allows its
decomposition and makes it optimized for parallel computing.
Short title: Modeling Salt and Fault Motion
Keywords: Basin modeling, petroleum exploration, salt motion, fault deformation, half-edge