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JOURNAL OF HYDROINFORMATICS
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages 1198-1216Publisher
IWA PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2020.032
Keywords
coupled model; flood; hybrid GPU; shallow water; simulation
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- Ministry of Science and Innovation/FEDER [PGC2018-094341-B-I00]
- U.S. Air Force Numerical Weather Modeling Program
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Coupled 1D2D models emerged as an efficient solution for a two-dimensional (2D) representation of the floodplain combined with a fast one-dimensional (1D) schematization of the main channel. At the same time, high-performance computing (HPC) has appeared as an efficient tool for model acceleration. In this work, a previously validated 1D2D Central Processing Unit (CPU) model is combined with an HPC technique for fast and accurate flood simulation. Due to the speed of 1D schemes, a hybrid CPU/GPU model that runs the 1D main channel on CPU and accelerates the 2D floodplain with a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is presented. Since the data transfer between sub-domains and devices (CPU/GPU) may be the main potential drawback of this architecture, the test cases are selected to carry out a careful time analysis. The results reveal the speed-up dependency on the 2D mesh, the event to be solved and the 1D discretization of the main channel. Additionally, special attention must be paid to the time step size computation shared between sub-models. In spite of the use of a hybrid CPU/GPU implementation, high speed-ups are accomplished in some cases.
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