OpenGeoSys swMATH ID: 9098 Software Authors: O. Kolditz Description: OpenGeoSys: an open-source initiative for numerical simulation of thermo-hydro-mechanical/chemical (THM/C) processes in porous media. In this paper we describe the OpenGeoSys (OGS) project, which is a scientific open-source initiative for numerical simulation of thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in porous media. The basic concept is to provide a flexible numerical framework (using primarily the Finite Element Method (FEM)) for solving multifield problems in porous and fractured media for applications in geoscience and hydrology. To this purpose OGS is based on an object-oriented FEM concept including a broad spectrum of interfaces for pre- and postprocessing. The OGS idea has been in development since the mid-eighties. We provide a short historical note about the continuous process of concept and software development having evolved through Fortran, C, and C++ implementations. The idea behind OGS is to provide an open platform to the community, outfitted with professional software-engineering tools such as platform-independent compiling and automated benchmarking. A comprehensive benchmarking book has been prepared for publication. Benchmarking has been proven to be a valuable tool for cooperation between different developer teams, for example, for code comparison and validation purposes (DEVOVALEX and CO2 BENCH projects). On one hand, object-orientation (OO) provides a suitable framework for distributed code development; however, the parallelization of OO codes still lacks efficiency. High-performance-computing efficiency of OO codes is subject to future research. Homepage: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-012-1546-x Related Software: PFLOTRAN; DuMuX; PHREEQC; GEMSelektor; PhreeqcRM; GEMS3K; CrunchFlow; TOUGH-FLAC; TOUGHREACT; ParaView; Gmsh; FEniCS; MRST; TOUGH; HYDROGEOCHEM; STOMP; SUPCRT92; eSTOMP; ORCHESTRA; GeoSysBRNS Cited in: 21 Publications all top 5 Cited by 101 Authors 5 Kolditz, Olaf 5 Kosakowski, Georg 2 Águila, Jesús F. 2 Delfs, Jens-Olaf 2 Hingerl, Ferdinand F. 2 Kalbacher, Thomas 2 Kulik, Dmitrii A. 2 Mayer, K. Ulrich 2 Montenegro, Luis 2 Nagel, Thomas 2 Samper, Javier 2 Shao, Haibing 2 Sun, WaiChing 2 Wagner, Thomas A. 2 Wang, Wenqing 1 Ackermann, Sina 1 Alt Epping, P. 1 Appelo, C. A. J. 1 Arora, Bhavna 1 Beck, Martin 1 Becker, Beatrix 1 Benisch, Katharina 1 Berner, Urs R. 1 Burbulla, Samuel 1 Caulk, Robert A. 1 Chareyre, Bruno 1 Chudnenko, Konstantin V. 1 Churakov, Sergey V. 1 Class, Holger 1 Coltman, Edward 1 Cui, Xin 1 Damiani, Leonardo Hax 1 Debenest, Gérald 1 Dmytrieva, Svitlana V. 1 Driesner, Thomas 1 Emmert, Simon 1 Fetzer, Thomas 1 Flemisch, Bernd 1 Franc, Jacques 1 Garipov, T. T. 1 Gläser, Dennis 1 Glaus, Martin A. 1 Grundmann, J. 1 Grüninger, Christoph 1 Grünwald, Norbert 1 Guibert, Romain 1 He, Wenkui 1 Heck, Katharina 1 Hommel, Johannes 1 Horgue, Pierre 1 Icardi, Matteo 1 Koch, Timo 1 Krejci, Philipp 1 Krzaczek, Marek 1 Kurz, Theresa 1 Kyas, Svetlana 1 Lagneau, Vincent 1 Leal, Allan M. M. 1 Lichtner, P. C. 1 Liedl, Roman 1 Lipp, Melanie 1 Lu, Renchao 1 MacQuarrie, Kerry T. B. 1 Mäder, U. 1 Maßmann, Jobst 1 Meeussen, J. C. L. 1 Mohammadi, Farid 1 Molins, Sergi 1 Montoya, Vanessa 1 Naumov, Dmitri 1 Parisio, Francesco 1 Pescimoro, Eugenio 1 Pfingsten, Wilfried 1 Poonoosamy, J. 1 Porta, Giovanni Michele 1 Rin, R. 1 Saar, Martin O. 1 Scherrer, Samuel 1 Schneider, Martin 1 Scholtès, Luc 1 Seitz, Gabriele 1 Šimůnek, J. 1 Soulaine, Cyprien 1 Spycher, N. 1 Stadler, Leopold 1 Steefel, Carl I. 1 Su, Danyang 1 Suh, Hyoung Suk 1 Tchelepi, Hamdi A. 1 Tomin, Pavel 1 Utz, Martin 1 van Loon, L. R. 1 Volpatto, Diego 1 Voskov, Denis V. 1 Wanner, C. 1 Weinhardt, Felix 1 Weishaupt, Kilian 1 Wong, Louis Ngai Yuen 1 Yabusaki, S. B. 1 Yeh, Gour-Tsyh ...and 1 more Authors all top 5 Cited in 10 Serials 9 Computational Geosciences 3 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2 GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics 1 Computers & Mathematics with Applications 1 Computer Physics Communications 1 Journal of Computational Physics 1 International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 1 Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 1 Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 1 Mathematical Geosciences Cited in 5 Fields 16 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) 13 Geophysics (86-XX) 7 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) 3 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 1 Computer science (68-XX) Citations by Year