An open source massively parallel solver for Richards equation: Mechanistic modelling of water fluxes at the watershed scale

Published: 1 January 2014| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/ghc3s2b7p3.1
Contributors:
L. Orgogozo, N. Renon, C. Soulaine, F. Hénon, S.K. Tomer, D. Labat, O.S. Pokrovsky, M. Sekhar, R. Ababou, M. Quintard

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Abstract In this paper we present a massively parallel open source solver for Richards equation, named the RichardsFOAM solver. This solver has been developed in the framework of the open source generalist computational fluid dynamics tool box OpenFOAM^®and is capable to deal with large scale problems in both space and time. The source code for RichardsFOAM may be downloaded from the CPC program library website. It exhibits good parallel performances (up to ∼90% parallel efficiency with 1024 process... Title of program: RichardsFOAM Catalogue Id: AEUF_v1_0 Nature of problem This software solves the non-linear three-dimensional transient Richards equation, which is a very popular model for water transfer in variably saturated porous media (e.g.: soils). It is designed to take advantage of the massively parallel computing performance of OpenFOAM®. The goal is to be able to model natural hydrosystems on large temporal and spatial scales. Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data AEUF_v1_0; RichardsFOAM; 10.1016/j.cpc.2014.08.004 AEUF_v2_0; RichardsFoam2; 10.1016/j.cpc.2015.07.009 This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2018)

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Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Computational Physics

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