Development of an Efficient GPU-Accelerated Model for Fully Nonlinear Water Waves

This work is concerned with the development of an efficient high-throughput scalable model for simulation of fully nonlinear water waves (OceanWave3D) applicable to solve and analyze large-scale problems in coastal engineering. The goal can be achieved through algorithm redesign and parallelization of an optimized sequential single-CPU algorithm based on a flexible-order Finite Difference Method. High performance is pursued by utilizing many-core processing in the model focusing on GPUs for acceleration of code execution. This involves combining analytical methods with an algorithm redesign of the current numerical model.