Grid-based optimization in groundwater management

A common technique for groundwater management modeling is the Finite-Element method. Optimizing these complex models often implies many hundreds of model simulations and due to the time consuming simulation runs this leads to an impracticable runtime of the optimization process even on modern computation resources. In this paper an approach is presented to use a grid infrastructure to calculate the single simulation task in parallel. Initial results are presented, which demonstrate the feasibility of the grid-based optimization approach.