CERFACS Scientific Activity Report Jan. 2012 – Dec. 2014 Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique European Center for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computing CERFACS Scientific Activity Report Jan. 2012 – Dec. 2014 CERFACS 42, Avenue Gaspard Coriolis, 31057 Toulouse Cedex 1, FRANCE. Tel. : 33 (0) 561 19 31 31 – Fax : 33 (0) 561 19 30 30
[email protected] – http://www.cerfacs.fr Table des matières 1 Foreword ix 2 CERFACS Structure x 3 CERFACS Staff xii 4 CERFACS Wide-Interest Seminars xix 1 Parallel Algorithms Project 1 1 Introduction 3 2 Dense and Sparse Matrix Computations 4 3 Iterative Methods and Preconditioning 7 4 Nonlinear Systems and Optimization 10 5 Propagation 21 6 Qualitative Computing 27 7 Publications 28 2 CERFACS-Inria joint laboratory 35 1 CERFACS-Inria joint laboratory 37 3 Data Assimilation 39 1 Introduction 41 2 Atmospheric Chemistry 42 3 Hydraulics/hydrology 46 4 Oceanography 49 5 Wildfire Modelling 51 6 Publications 53 CERFACS ACTIVITY REPORT iii TABLE DES MATIÈRES 4 Coupling tools and HPC Climate Modeling 59 1 Introduction 61 2 OASIS 62 3 OpenPALM 64 4 High Performance Computing 66 5 Big Data 68 6 Uncertainty Quantification 70 7 Publications 71 5 Climate Variability and Global Change 75 1 Introduction 77 2 Climate variability at seasonal to decadal time scales 78 3 Decadal predictability and prediction 83 4 Anthropogenic perturbations and impacts 87 5 Publications 90 6 Computational Fluid Dynamics 97 1 Introduction 99 2 Combustion 101 3 Aerodynamics 114 4 Publications 127 7 Aviation and Environment 139 1 Climate Impact of aviation 141 2 Impact of launchers 145 3 Model developments 148 4 Publications 151 iv Jan.