Application of Parallel Aggregation-Based Multigrid to High Resolution Subsurface Flow Simulations

Application of Parallel Aggregation-Based Multigrid to High Resolution Subsurface Flow Simulations

Year:    2019

Author:    Meng-Huo Chen, Shuyu Sun

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Vol. 16 (2019), Iss. 6 : pp. 873–890

Abstract

In this paper we assess the parallel efficiency issues for simulating single phase subsurface flow in porous media, where the permeability tensor contains anisotropy rotated with certain angles or severe discontinuity. Space variables are discretized using multi-points flux approximations and the pressure equations are solved by aggregation-based algebraic multigrid method. The involved issues include the domain decomposition of space discretization and coarsening, smoothing, the coarsest grid solving of multigrid solving steps. Numerical experiments exhibit that the convergence of the multigrid algorithm suffers from the parallel implementation. The linear system at the coarsest grid is solved and by various iterative methods and the experimental results show that the parallel efficiency is less attenuated when sparse approximate inverse preconditioning conjugate gradient is used.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/2019-IJNAM-13258

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Vol. 16 (2019), Iss. 6 : pp. 873–890

Published online:    2019-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    18

Keywords:    Parallel computation porous media flow multi-points flux approximations algebraic multigrid.

Author Details

Meng-Huo Chen

Shuyu Sun