High performance computing in hydro- and environmental engineering

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Hydroscience and Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, September 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1860/732High Performance Computing (HPC) can be understood as the interaction of parallel and adaptive methods with fast solvers on powerful parallel computers. Therefore, an introduction to parallel and adaptive methods as well as to fast solvers is given. The interaction of these methods is demonstrated using three examples which deal with groundwater flow and transport processes, gaswater flow as well as multiphase / multicomponent flow and transport processes in the subsurface. HPC has become applicable for a number of problem classes and modeling systems in hydro- and environmental sciences with a reasonable effort of adapting or further developing source codes. HPC opens new horizons for simulating and understanding complex coupled processes in large scale systems