The Open Source PFLOTRAN Simulator
Abstract
PFLOTRAN is an open source subsurface simulator designed to run on a variety of computing platforms. The code simulates anisothermal multiphase flow, multicomponent transport and biogeochemical reaction. PFLOTRAN has exploratory extensions for surface water flow and geomechanics along with interfaces to land surface models (CLM) and geophysics (electrical resistivity tomography through E4D). Predominant areas of real-world application include contaminant fate and transport, earth system modeling, geological disposal of nuclear waste, oil and gas production, and supercritical CO2 sequestration.
PFLOTRAN has been under version-controlled, GNU LGPL-licensed development for over ten years. According to OpenHub, PFLOTRAN is composed of over three hundred thousand lines of Fortran source generated through an estimated 83 years of effort (COCOMO model) by an international group of 36 contributors. The developers leverage a public Bitbucket repository for storage, Git for software configuration management, Travis CI for continuous integration, and www.pflotran.org for documentation. Founded upon the PETSc framework, PFLOTRAN has portability across numerous computing platforms ranging from Windows laptops to petascale supercomputers. This presentation will briefly introduce PFLOTRAN and describe its applications around the world. SAND2018-8316 A- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMNS53A0545H
- Keywords:
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- 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation;
- COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICSDE: 0545 Modeling;
- COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICSDE: 0599 General or miscellaneous;
- COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICSDE: 1999 General or miscellaneous;
- INFORMATICS