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A DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION APPROACH FOR LARGE-SCALE SIMULATIONS OF FLOW PROCESSES IN HYDRATE-BEARING GEOLOGIC MEDIA Zhang, Keni; Moridis, George J.; Wu, Yu-Shu; Pruess, Karsten
Abstract
Simulation of the system behavior of hydrate-bearing geologic media involves solving fully coupled mass- and heat-balance equations. In this study, we develop a domain decomposition approach for large-scale gas hydrate simulations with coarse-granularity parallel computation. This approach partitions a simulation domain into small subdomains. The full model domain, consisting of discrete subdomains, is still simulated simultaneously by using multiple processes/processors. Each processor is dedicated to following tasks of the partitioned subdomain: updating thermophysical properties, assembling mass- and energy-balance equations, solving linear equation systems, and performing various other local computations. The linearized equation systems are solved in parallel with a parallel linear solver, using an efficient interprocess communication scheme. This new domain decomposition approach has been implemented into the TOUGH+HYDRATE code and has demonstrated excellent speedup and good scalability. In this paper, we will demonstrate applications for the new approach in simulating field-scale models for gas production from gas-hydrate deposits.
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A DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION APPROACH FOR LARGE-SCALE SIMULATIONS OF FLOW PROCESSES IN HYDRATE-BEARING GEOLOGIC MEDIA
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2008-07
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Simulation of the system behavior of hydrate-bearing geologic media involves solving fully
coupled mass- and heat-balance equations. In this study, we develop a domain decomposition
approach for large-scale gas hydrate simulations with coarse-granularity parallel computation. This
approach partitions a simulation domain into small subdomains. The full model domain, consisting
of discrete subdomains, is still simulated simultaneously by using multiple processes/processors.
Each processor is dedicated to following tasks of the partitioned subdomain: updating
thermophysical properties, assembling mass- and energy-balance equations, solving linear
equation systems, and performing various other local computations. The linearized equation
systems are solved in parallel with a parallel linear solver, using an efficient interprocess
communication scheme. This new domain decomposition approach has been implemented into the
TOUGH+HYDRATE code and has demonstrated excellent speedup and good scalability. In this
paper, we will demonstrate applications for the new approach in simulating field-scale models for
gas production from gas-hydrate deposits.
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eng
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2008-07-28
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0041030
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Zhang, Keni; Moridis, George J.; Wu, Yu-Shu; Pruess, Karsten. 2008. A DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION APPROACH FOR LARGE-SCALE SIMULATIONS OF FLOW PROCESSES IN HYDRATE-BEARING GEOLOGIC MEDIA. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2008), Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA, July 6-10, 2008.
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Unreviewed
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Zhang, Keni
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