Appears in collections : CEMRACS: Numerical challenges in parallel scientific computing / CEMRACS : Défis numériques en calcul scientifique parallèle, Exposés de recherche

In this presentation, we will first present the main goals and principles of reservoir simulation. Then we will focus on linear systems that arise in such simulation. The main HPC challenge is to solve those systems efficiently on massively parallel computers. The specificity of those systems is that their convergence is mostly governed by the elliptic part of the equations and the linear solver needs to take advantage of it to be efficient. The reference method in reservoir simulation is CPR-AMG which usually relies on AMG to solve the quasi elliptic part of the system. We will present some works on improving AMG scalability for the reservoir linear systems (work done in collaboration with CERFACS). We will then introduce an on-going work with INRIA to take advantage of their enlarged Krylov method (EGMRES) in the CPR method.