Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Interactive visualization of subterranean formations models is essential for reservoir engineering. ParaView is a good option - it is feature rich, performance oriented, cross-platform, free and open-source. It can run in client-server mode, where heavy processing and rendering is executed on powerful servers in parallel with multiple processors. Custom format support can be implemented in ParaView as an extension in the form of a plug-in of a script for embedded Python-shell. Parallelization of the grid is defined explicitly in the logic of custom readers created as extensions for ParaView. It was identified that the way of splitting the grid between processes can significantly impact the efficiency of resources utilization. The main object of current study was a class of reservoir models that have resolution in vertical direction much smaller than that in horizontal direction. For such grids splitting by vertical blocks proved to be much more efficient than splitting by horizontal layers. In this case not only less memory is required - rendering is also faster. These important findings can help to get visualizations faster for more efficient design processes or even enable visualization of near-the-limits scales.
Source: Discover Geoscience
Authors: Oleg Kovalevskiy, Michel Cancelliere
Institution: Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia)
Language: English
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407842881