Phase 1 of my research has been completed with the end of this week. I have finally finished the application I was building. Our lack of knowledge never ceases to amaze me. Every single day I learn something new and come out as a more knowledge person than the day before. In summary my application (shown below) takes a 3D array describing a fracture, outputs 1D, 2D & 3D aperture measurement data and outputs a lattice file describing that same fracture as well as a slurm file containing directions to the Lonestar 5 supercomputer for execution.
From now, my work is mainly running Lattice-Boltzmann simulations on the fractures generated by SynFrac. I have to first install the Lattice Boltzmann simulation onto the work directory of Lonestar 5. After this, I have to upload the lattice and slurm files for execution. Once the simulation is completed, I have to compare the velocity fields given by the simulation to the analytical solution for fluid velocity. The hardest part of this phase is learning to use linux. I don't have a computer science background so I will have to do a lot of googling. I'm happy I made it this far.
From now, my work is mainly running Lattice-Boltzmann simulations on the fractures generated by SynFrac. I have to first install the Lattice Boltzmann simulation onto the work directory of Lonestar 5. After this, I have to upload the lattice and slurm files for execution. Once the simulation is completed, I have to compare the velocity fields given by the simulation to the analytical solution for fluid velocity. The hardest part of this phase is learning to use linux. I don't have a computer science background so I will have to do a lot of googling. I'm happy I made it this far.