SHEMAT-Suite: An open-source code for simulating flow, heat and species transport in porous media

Abstract


SHEMAT-Suite is a finite-difference open-source code for simulating coupled flow, heat and species transport in porous media. The code,written in Fortran-95, originates from geoscientific research in the fields of geothermics and hydrogeology.

It comprises:

(1) a versatile handling of input and output,
(2) a modular framework for subsurface parameter modeling,
(3) a multi-level OpenMP parallelization,
(4) parameter estimation and data assimilation by stochastic approaches (Monte Carlo, Ensemble Kalman filter) and by deterministic Bayesian approaches based on automatic differentiation for calculating exact (truncation error-free) derivatives of the forward code.


Journal:
SoftwareX 12 (2020) 100533

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2020.100533

Authors:
Johannes Keller, Volker Rath, Johanna Bruckmann, Darius Mottaghy, Christoph Clauser, Andreas Wolf, Ralf Seidler, H. Martin Bücker, Norbert Klitzsch.

EoCoE is a European Horizon 2020 funded project of Centre of Excellence in computing applications. It is designed to enhance numerical simulation efficiency in the international context of the High Performance Computing (HPC) challenges. It focusses its application scope towards low carbon energy domains.

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