Scientific article
English

A Framework for Building a Network of Irrigation Canals on a Distributed Computing Environment: a case study

Published inJournal of cellular automata, vol. 9, no. 2-3, no. Special Issue: Cellular Automata Applications for Research and Industry, p. 225-240
Publication date2014
Abstract

An optimal management of an irrigation network is important to ensure an efficient water supply and to predict critical situations related to natural hazards. Within the context of the MAPPER European project we present a multiscale coupling methodology to simulate numerically an entire irrigation canal over a distributed High Performance Computing (HPC) resource. We decompose the network into several segments that are coupled through junctions. Our coupling strategy, based on the concept of Complex Cellular Automata (CxA), the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) method and the Multiscale Modeling Language (MML) aims at coupling simple 1D model of canal sections with 3D complex ones. Our goal is to build a numerical model that can be run over a distributed grid infrastructure, thus offering a large amount of computing resources. We illustrate our approach by coupling two canal sections in 1D through a gate and a spillway junctions.

Keywords
  • Irrigation canal
  • Lattice Boltzmann models
  • Cellular automata
  • Coupling method
  • Distributed multiscale computing
  • MAPPER project
Funding
  • European Commission - Multiscale Applications on European e-Infrastructures [RI-261507]
Citation (ISO format)
BEN BELGACEM, Mohamed et al. A Framework for Building a Network of Irrigation Canals on a Distributed Computing Environment: a case study. In: Journal of cellular automata, 2014, vol. 9, n° 2-3, p. 225–240.
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  • PID : unige:41016
Journal ISSN1557-5969
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