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# GEOMECHANICS_CONDITION¶

Condition coupler between regions and geomechanics boundary conditions. Since the geomechanics is solved in a quasi-steady manner, initial conditions are not needed. Displacement or force conditions can be specified. Note that the values specified for displacement or force conditions will be applied to all the nodes of the region that the condition is coupled to. If one wants to specify a force F on on a face, then the F needs to be distributed based on the area around each node on that face. For example, if the top face has nodes configuration as follows:

1–2–3

l l l

4–5–6

l l l

7–8–9

with x and y in the horizontal and vertical direction, and if a force F on the entire face is applied in the negative z direction, assuming equal spacing in x and y directions, the load distribution will be:

Nodes 1,7,9,3 will get F/16. Nodes 4,2,6,8 will get F/8. Node 5 will get F/4.

One will then have to specify three separate regions (one with internal nodes, one with corners and one with boundary nodes that are not corners), and then specify three FORCE_Z boundary conditions.

Sets flow parameters used in setting up flow boundary and initial conditions and source/sinks.

## Required Cards:¶

GEOMECHANICS_CONDITION <string>
Opens the GEOMECHANICS_CONDITION block, where <string> is the assigned name of the geomechanics condition so that it can be referred to in cards GEOMECHANICS_BOUNDARY_CONDITION
TYPE

Opens the TYPE sub-block. Within this sub-block, the type of the geomechanics condition is specified. Options for TYPE are

TYPE [DISPLACEMENT_X {DIRICHLET},
DISPLACEMENT_Y {DIRICHLET}, DISPLACEMENT_Z {DIRICHLET}, FORCE_X {DIRICHLET}, FORCE_Y {DIRICHLET}, FORCE_Z {DIRICHLET}]

For each TYPE option specified in the TYPE sub-block described above, a corresponding type-value card must be included that specifies the value of the TYPE. The possible type-value cards include:

DISPLACEMENT_X <float>
The displacement [m] in the x-direction applied at a geomechanics vertex on the boundary.
DISPLACEMENT_Y <float>
The displacement [m] in the y-direction applied at a geomechanics vertex on the boundary.
DISPLACEMENT_Z <float>
The displacement [m] in the z-direction applied at a geomechanics vertex on the boundary.
FORCE_X <float>
The force [N] in the x-direction applied at a geomechanics vertex on the boundary.
FORCE_Y <float>
The force [N] in the y-direction applied at a geomechanics vertex on the boundary.
FORCE_Z <float>
The force [N] in the z-direction applied at a geomechanics vertex on the boundary.

## Examples¶

GEOMECHANICS_CONDITION west_geomech
TYPE
DISPLACEMENT_X dirichlet
END
DISPLACEMENT_X 0.0
END

GEOMECHANICS_CONDITION east_geomech
TYPE
DISPLACEMENT_X dirichlet
END
DISPLACEMENT_X 0.0
END

GEOMECHANICS_CONDITION north_geomech
TYPE
DISPLACEMENT_Y dirichlet
END
DISPLACEMENT_Y 0.0
END

GEOMECHANICS_CONDITION bottom_geomech
TYPE
DISPLACEMENT_Z dirichlet
END
DISPLACEMENT_Z 0.0
END

GEOMECHANICS_CONDITION south_geomech
TYPE
DISPLACEMENT_Y dirichlet
END
DISPLACEMENT_Y 0.0
END

GEOMECHANICS_CONDITION top_corner_force
TYPE
FORCE_Z dirichlet
END
FORCE_Z -68832.8125
END

GEOMECHANICS_CONDITION top_boundary_force
TYPE
FORCE_Z dirichlet
END
FORCE_Z -137665.625
END

GEOMECHANICS_CONDITION top_internal_force
TYPE
FORCE_Z dirichlet
END
FORCE_Z -275331.25
END