Implicit Parallel FEM Analysis of Shallow Water Equations

Abstract

The velocity field in the Wu River at Chongqing was simulated using the shallow water equation implemented on clustered workstations. The parallel computing technique was used to increase the computing power. The shallow water equation was discretized to a linear system of equations with a direct parallel generalized minimum residual algorithm (GMRES) used to solve the linear system. Unlike other parallel GMRES methods, the direct GMRES method does not alter the sequential algorithm, but bases the parallelization on basic operations such as the matrix-vector product. The computed results agree well with observed results. The parallel computing technique significantly increases the solution speed for this large-scale problem.