Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
As part of a small international team, my main role is to enhance and maintain the primary simulator in a suite of applications for basin modelling. The simulator models the evolution of pressure and temperature, generation of hydrocarbons and their transport through the basin all over geological time. The simulator is written in C++ and is designed to run on a large cluster. Other roles have included optimisation of existing simulators.
As a contractor to Shell my main role was to enhance and maintain the primary simulator in the Shell basin modelling suite of applications. The simulator models the evolution of pressure and temperature in slowly depositing sedimentary layers over geological time.
The main objective of the research was to develop an effective hp-refinement strategy for the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method and then to design and implement a library in C++ that uses this research. The software was designed to be run on multi-processor PCs and a large multi-processor supercomputer using pthreads and PVM.
The main objective was to design and implement a library for the solution of the interpolation equations using radial basis functions. The library was written in C++.