Sharifian, M.K. orcid.org/0000-0002-3150-5162, Kesserwani, G. orcid.org/0000-0003-1125-8384, Chowdhury, A.A. orcid.org/0000-0002-6552-7298 et al. (2 more authors) (2023) LISFLOOD-FP 8.1: new GPU-accelerated solvers for faster fluvial/pluvial flood simulations. Geoscientific Model Development, 16 (9). pp. 2391-2413. ISSN 1991-959X
Abstract
The local inertial two-dimensional (2D) flow model on LISFLOOD-FP, the so-called ACCeleration (ACC) uniform grid solver, has been widely used to support fast, computationally efficient fluvial/pluvial flood simulations. This paper describes new releases, on LISFLOOD-FP 8.1, for parallelised flood simulations on the graphical processing units (GPUs) to boost efficiency of the existing parallelised ACC solver on the central processing units (CPUs) and enhance it further by enabling a new non-uniform grid version. The non-uniform solver generates its grid using the multiresolution analysis (MRA) of the multiwavelets (MWs) to a Galerkin polynomial projection of the digital elevation model (DEM). This sensibly coarsens the resolutions where the local topographic details are below an error threshold ε and allows classes of land use to be properly adapted. Both the grid generator and the adapted ACC solver on the non-uniform grid are implemented in a GPU new codebase, using the indexing of Z-order curves alongside a parallel tree traversal approach. The efficiency performance of the GPU parallelised uniform and non-uniform grid solvers is assessed for five case studies, where the accuracy of the latter is explored for and 10−3 in terms of how close it can reproduce the prediction of the former. On the GPU, the uniform ACC solver is found to be 2–28 times faster than the CPU predecessor with increased number of elements on the grid, and the non-uniform solver can further increase the speed up to 320 times with increased reduction in the grid's elements and decreased variability in the resolution. LISFLOOD-FP 8.1, therefore, allows faster flood inundation modelling to be performed at both urban and catchment scales. It is openly available under the GPL v3 license, with additional documentation at https://www.seamlesswave.com/LISFLOOD8.0 (last access: 12 March 2023).
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Bioengineering |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Civil and Structural Engineering (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL EP/R007349/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2023 14:30 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2023 14:30 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Copernicus GmbH |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.5194/gmd-16-2391-2023 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:199841 |