Publications
Computational mechanics for geosystems management to support the energy and natural resources mission
U.S. energy needs - minimizing climate change, mining and extraction technologies, safe waste disposal - require the ability to simulate, model, and predict the behavior of subsurface systems. They propose development of a coupled thermal, hydrological, mechanical, chemistry (THMC) modeling capability for massively parallel applications that can address these critical needs. The goal and expected outcome of this research is a state-of-the-art, extensible, simulation capability, based upon SIERRA Mechanics, to address multiphase, multicomponent reactive transport coupled to nonlinear geomechanics in heterogeneous (geologic) porous materials. The THMC code provides a platform for integrating research in numerical mathematics and algorithms for chemically reactive multiphase systems with computer science research in adaptive coupled solution control and framework architecture.