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Parallel Multiphysics Simulations Using OpenPALM with Application to Hydro-Biogeochemistry Coupling

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Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes HPSC 2015

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Multiphysics systems consist of more than one component governed by its own principle for evolution or equilibrium. As an example, we consider an agricultural land use scenario comprising a hydrology model and a biogeochemistry model. We employ the OpenPALM tool to realize a coupling scheme where the models run concurrently using an individual parallelization. Although the two models demand for very different computational effort to compute one time step, we achieve a balance by allocating appropriate computational resources for each of them. We assess the parallel performance of the coupled application in a 3D scenario. Our concurrent operator splitting scheme shows superior efficiency compared to common coupling approaches.

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This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under grants HE-4760/4-1 and BU-1173/12-1.

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  1. Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

    Martin Wlotzka & Vincent Heuveline

  2. Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (KIT IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany

    Steffen Klatt, David Kraus, Edwin Haas, Ralf Kiese & Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  3. Institute of Landscape Ecology and Resources Management, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

    Philipp Kraft & Lutz Breuer

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Wlotzka, M. et al. (2017). Parallel Multiphysics Simulations Using OpenPALM with Application to Hydro-Biogeochemistry Coupling. In: Bock, H., Phu, H., Rannacher, R., Schlöder, J. (eds) Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes HPSC 2015 . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67168-0_22

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