Title :
Parallelization of Thermal Recovery Simulation Based on PETSc
Author :
Liu, Lin ; Xue, Wei ; Shu, Jiwu ; Ma, Li
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput. & Inf. Technol., Liaoning Normal Univ., Dalian, China
Abstract :
Numerical reservoir simulation is one of the effective tools for complex fluid analysis in the oil industry. This paper analyzed the principle of thermal recovery simulation, and designed and implemented a parallel program of the thermal recovery simulation based on PESTc toolkit. The improved domain decomposition with load-balance control was presented to partition the computation into different processing units efficiently. Compared with the serial program, our implementation can gain 8.16 times speedup using 16 cores over a large-scale reservoir test case.
Keywords :
chemical engineering computing; fluids; hydrocarbon reservoirs; parallel processing; petroleum industry; recovery; Numerical reservoir simulation; PETSc; complex fluid analysis; domain decomposition; large scale reservoir test case; load balance control; oil industry; parallel program; thermal recovery simulation; Computational modeling; Equations; Mathematical model; Numerical models; Petroleum; Reservoirs; Software; PETSc; load-balance; numerical reservoir simulation; parallel;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA), 2010 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8095-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4190-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISPA.2010.18
