Introduction
Geoqus is an open user group of scientist who employ the commercial finite-element
software Abaqus (Abaqus Inc.)
for any geoscientific application. The user group addresses mainly academic users
of universities and other scientific research institutes around the globe. Users of
other finite-element software are also welcome to join Geoqus.
The Geoqus user group provides a platform for single users, large research groups,
beginners and experts to get in contact with other users of Abaqus in the geosciences
for the benefit of the whole community. A mailing list is set up for this reason to
which everybody can sign up and post their questions, comments, ideas, etc.
Interesting questions are for example which rheological model to use, how to write
subroutines, and which initial conditions to use. An other purpose of this user group
is to organise small meetings or workshops to discus technical aspects of using Abaqus
in geosciences. Users are also welcome to exchange scientific ideas and results
based on their numerical models.
Geoqus is based on an idea of
Oliver Heidbach
from the German Research Center of Geosciences GFZ Potsdam and
Kasper Fischer
of the University of Bochum. Home of Geoqus is the geophysics group of the Institute
of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics at the Ruhr-University Bochum.
Geoqus Mailinglist
The Geoqus mailing list is the primary platform of communication between Geoqus members. Messages to discuss differnet Abaqus and Geoscientific subjects and annoncments (i.e. on upcomming workshops, conferences, job positions) can be posted. Please check also the Abaqus Support Homepage if you have a more general Abaqus related question or technical problems. Please feel free to subscribe to the Geoqus mailing list. Just visit the mailing list webpage to subscribe or unsubscribe to the Geoqus mailing list. Registered users can send e-mails to all members by using the e-mail address geoqus@lists.ruhr-uni-bochum.de. The contents of previous e-mails of the Geoqus mailing list can be found in the Geoqus archive.