Poincaré's "indifferent hypotheses" are those, which the analyst assumes at the beginning of calculations, which are neither true nor false, but rather play roles as positions in a structure.
Figure 3 shows a calculation result of temporal slip evolution after many earthquakes from the beginning of the calculation, sufficiently long to remove the effects of initial conditions, when we assume the parameters described in Table 1.
Subduction is considered to start at the beginning of the calculation (24 Ma), after which the oceanic plate subducts gradually at a constant rate till the end of the calculation (the present) at time increments of about 0.071 m.y. for the lowest subducting velocity (2 cm/year) in the southern region and about 0.024 m.y. for the fastest subducting velocity (6 cm/year) in the northern region.
In most penalty schemes, some coefficients or constants have to be specified at the beginning of the calculation.
The oceanic plate initiates subduction at the beginning of the calculation and then continues to subduct deeper as time proceeds.
In Table 1 we present the set of parameter values used at the beginning of each calculation.
A Decimation-In-Frequency implementation was used as it enabled the inputs to be ordered at the beginning of the calculation.
At the beginning of the calculation, we substitute φ = 0 only at the seeding point without any change in temperature (see Fig. 2(a), for example).
At the beginning of the calculation, it can be observed at t = 2.0 × 10−3 ms (see Figure 5) that a flat circular section appears between the three droplets.
