Split-node faults: zero-thickness fault contacts in 2-D and 3-D, parallel, with interface constitutive laws - #502

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Add the split-node fault primitive: a labelled facet chain becomes a genuine discontinuity
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Insert essential boundary values in the rotated solve's field copy-back
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Frictionless fault contact: mean/jump pair blocks in the rotated machinery
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Viscous fault law: the linear interface member, plus the deployment design
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Junction strategy in the fault deployment design: offset, abutment, d-sector
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The deployed fault interface: Mesh.add_fault + solver.add_fault_bc + plain solve()
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Refine the split's seam rules: near-seam faults split, crossings are named
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Seam crossings: a fault may now cross partition boundaries
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Kink rule + crossing sweep + the per-equation representation policy
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Nonlinear fault laws: symbolic tau(V) with the sympy-derived Newton tangent
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Reaction-fed effective normal stress for the fault laws
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Rate-and-state friction on the split fault: the ladder's top rung
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3-D split-node faults: split a labelled patch, rim as the unsplit tip rule
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3-D fault contact: pair blocks, P2-triangle traces, collinear tangent
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Method write-up for the split-node fault work, with benchmark tables
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Add the stack-on progression figure to the method write-up
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