An open source massively parallel solver for Richards equation: Mechanistic modelling of water fluxes at the watershed scale

It exhibits good parallel performances (up to ∼90% parallel efficiency with 1024 process... Title of program: RichardsFOAM Catalogue Id: AEUF_v1_0 Nature of problem This software solves the non-linear three-dimensional transient Richards equation, which is a very popular model for water transfer in variably saturated porous media (e.g.: soils). It is designed to take advantage of the massively parallel computing performance of OpenFOAM®.

The goal is to be able to model natural hydrosystems on large temporal and spatial scales. Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data AEUF_v1_0; RichardsFOAM; 10.1016/j.cpc.2014.08.004 AEUF_v2_0; RichardsFoam2; 10.1016/j.cpc.2015.07.009 This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2018)