The authors present a large-scale finite element simulation of fully elastic seismic waves propagating in a complex 3-D geological environment. The results are noteworthy on three accounts: (1) the complexity of the synthetic model which involves a folded structure and variable velocity of propagation; (2) the size and detail of the computational mesh, with over 13 million elements and 1700 time steps; and (3) a high computational efficiency and speed of execution. A finite-element explicit-in-time procedure was used to solve the 3-D elastic wave equations. The wave train was generated by a 3-Hz surface pressure source over a simulated time interval of 10 s. The simulation itself took 4.5 h to complete on a Fujitsu VP2400 supercomputer, at a sustained rate of about 0.5 GFLOPS.>

Article Free Access Share on High performance vector processing in reservoir simulation Authors: L. C. Young Reservoir Simulation Research Corp., 2525 E. 21st Street, Tulsa, OK Reservoir Simulation Research Corp., 2525 E. 21st Street, Tulsa, OKView Profile , S. E. Zarantonello Computational Research Division, Fujitsu America, Inc., San Jose, CA Computational Research Division, Fujitsu America, Inc., San Jose, CAView Profile Authors Info & Claims Supercomputing '91: Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/IEEE conference on SupercomputingAugust 1991 Pages 304–315https://doi.org/10.1145/125826.126000Published:01 August 1991Publication History 1citation300DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations1Total Downloads300Last 12 Months38Last 6 weeks8 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF