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@ARTICLE{Gohardoust:890902,
author = {Gohardoust, Mohammad R. and Šimůnek, Jirka and Hardelauf,
Horst and Tuller, Markus},
title = {{A}daptation and validation of the {P}ar{SWMS} numerical
code for simulation of water flow and solute transport in
soilless greenhouse substrates},
journal = {Journal of hydrology},
volume = {596},
issn = {0022-1694},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-01233},
pages = {126053 -},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Numerical simulation of three-dimensional water flow and
solute transport in containerized variably saturated
soilless substrates with complex hydraulic properties and
boundary conditions necessitates high-resolution dis
cretization of the spatial and temporal domains, which
commonly leads to several million nodes requiring nu
merical evaluation. Even today’s computing prowess of
workstations is not adequate to tackle such problems within
a reasonable timeframe, especially when numerous
realizations are required to optimize the geometry,
substrate properties, and irrigation and fertigation
management of soilless plant growth modules. Hence, the
parallelization of the numerical code and utilization of
high performance computing (HPC) are essential. Here, we
adapted and applied the ParSWMS parallelized code that is
amenable to solving the 3D Richards equation for water flow
and the convection-dispersion equation for solute transport
subject to linear solute adsorption. The code was modified
to allow for nonlinear equilibrium solute adsorption with
new boundary conditions and applied to simulate water flow
and nitrogen and phosphorus transport in containerized
soilless substrates. Multi- solute transport simulations
with the modified Linux ParSWMS code were first performed on
a workstation and referenced to the Windows-based HYDRUS
(2D/3D) numerical code. After confirming the agreement
between the modified ParSWMS code and HYDRUS (2D/3D),
various preconditioners and iterative solvers were evaluated
to find the computationally most efficient combinations. The
performance of the modified ParSWMS code and its stability
were compared to HYDRUS (2D/3D) simulations for three
soilless substrates consisting of horticultural perlite,
volcanic tuff, and a volcanic tuff/coconut coir mixture.
Considering the solute mass balance error as a stability
measure, ParSWMS outperformed HYDRUS (2D/3D). Moreover,
simulations with the modified ParSWMS code were about $22\%$
faster than simulations with HYDRUS (2D/3D) on the
workstation. Tests of the modified ParSWMS on two HPC
clusters with 28 and 94 cores revealed a potential
computational speedup of $94\%$ relative to the HYDRUS
(2D/3D) simulations performed on the workstation.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {690},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {217 - Für eine nachhaltige Bio-Ökonomie – von
Ressourcen zu Produkten (POF4-217) / 2173 -
Agro-biogeosystems: controls, feedbacks and impact
(POF4-217)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-217 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2173},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000642334400032},
doi = {10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126053},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/890902},
}