Simulating Multiphase Flow in Porous Media on KSR-1 Parallel Computers

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    Abstract

    This paper discusses implementation of a parallel numerical algorithm for simulating multiphase flow in porous media, with application to reservoir simulations. The flow is described by a system of two coupled nonlinear PDEs which is discretized by the finite difference scheme and linearized by the Newton's method. Different implementations on the latest KSR-1 parallel computers are discussed to demonstrate the performance improvement by using different parallelization strategies; automatic parallelization, semi-automatic parallelization, and manual parallelization. Timing results show that good speedup can be achieved by using compiler directive on this type of architecture.

    Original languageAmerican English
    JournalApplied Mathematics and Computation
    Volume65
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Sep 1 1994

    Disciplines

    • Applied Mathematics

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