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PARADIS
Participants : Jocelyne Erhel, Aurélien Le Gentil, Géraldine Pichot [correspondant] , Baptiste Poirriez, Nadir Soualem.
The software PARADIS aims at modelling and simulating numerically flow in a porous aquifer and transport by convection-diffusion of an inert solute. The porous medium is heterogeneous, with a stochastic or deterministic permeability field. A first step computes the velocity filed in the aquifer, by assuming that the medium is saturated and that flow is steady-state. A second step computes the distribution of solute concentration, by assuming a transport by convection and by molecular diffusion. Physical equations are stochastic PDEs, handled by a Monte-Carlo method and discretized by numerical methods. This non intrusive approach generates a set of random samples, which are used for simulations. Then, the software analyzes statistically the flow in the stochastic case. The objectives are to determine asymptotic laws of transport, to characterize pre-asymptotic behavior and to define global laws.
The software PARADIS handles a simulation corresponding to one sample, whereas Monte-Carlo method is implemented in a generic way by the software GW-NUM. The software is specific of the physical model (heterogeneous porous medium) and of the application (steady-state flow then transport with macro-dispersion). Generic numerical methods to discretize PDE are implemented in the software GW-NUM.
See also the web page http://h2olab.inria.fr/ .