T2SOLV - AN ENHANCED PACKAGE OF SOLVERS FOR THE TOUGH2 FAMILY OF RESERVOIR SIMULATION CODES

T2SOLV is an enhanced package of matrix solvers for the TOUGH2 family of codes. T2SOLV includes all the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (P CG) solvers used in T2CG1, the current solver package, as well as LUBA ND, a new direct solver and DLUSTB, a PCG solver based which implement s the BiCGSTAB(m) method. LUBAND, the new direct solver, is faster, mo re reliable and capable of solving problems orders of magnitude larger than the MA28 routine which it replaces. A significant capability of T2VOC is two types of matrix preprocessing, which make possible the so lution of a class of challenging numerical problems (previously tracta ble only with direct solvers) using the PCG routines. For regular grid s, the size of problems tractable with direct solvers is doubled by im plementing a D4 alternative diagonal gridblock ordering option. (C) 19 98 CNR. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.