Section: Software

MP-FRAC

Participants : Thomas Dufaud, Jocelyne Erhel, Aurélien Le Gentil, Géraldine Pichot [correspondant] .

• Version: version 1.0, May 2008

• APP: registered

• Programming language: C++

• See also: http://h2olab.inria.fr .

• Abstract: The software MP-FRAC aims at modelling and simulating numerically flow in a fractured aquifer. The physical domain is a network of fractures, either deterministic or stochastic, with a permeability field either deterministic or stochastic. The software computes the velocity field in the aquifer, by assuming that the medium is saturated and that flow is steady-state. Physical equations are stochastic PDEs, handled by a Monte-Carlo method. 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 objective is to characterize hydraulic properties in Discrete Fracture Networks. The software MP-FRAC 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 (Discrete Fracture Network) and of the application (steady-state flow). Generic numerical methods to discretize PDE are implemented in the software GW-NUM.

• Current work: refactoring and design of libraries.