Section: New Software and Platforms

Compass

Computing Architecture to Speed up Simulation

Keywords: Finite volume methods - Porous media - High performance computing

Functional Description: Compass is a parallel code initiated in 2012 and co-developed by LJAD-Inria Coffee and BRGM since 2015. It is devoted to the simulation of multiphase flows in porous media, it accounts for non isothermal and compositional flows and includes complex network of fractures or faults represented as interfaces of co-dimension one coupled to the surrounding matrix. The discretization is based on vertex and cell unknowns and is adapted to polyhedral meshes and heterogeneous media. The ComPASS code is co-developed since december 2016 by the partners of the ANR CHARMS project including BGRM, LJAD-Inria Coffee, Storengy, MdS and LJLL with the objective to develop a new generation simulator for geothermal systems focusing on fluids and accounting for complex fault networks and wells.

• Participants: Simon Lopez, Farid Smai, Michel Kern, Yacine Ould Rouis, Nabil Birgle, Laurence Beaude, Konstantin Brenner and Roland Masson

• Partners: Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS) - BRGM

• Contact: Roland Masson

• URL: http://www.anr-charms.org/page/compass-code