Title
A system integration framework for coupled multiphysics simulations
Abstract
Multiphysics simulations are playing an increasingly important role in computational science and engineering for applications ranging from aircraft design to medical treatments. These simulations require integration of techniques and tools from multiple disciplines, and in turn demand new advanced technologies to integrate independently developed physics solvers effectively. In this paper, we describe some numerical, geometrical, and system software components required by such integration, with a concrete case study of detailed, three-dimensional, parallel rocket simulations involving system-level interactions among fluid, solid, and combustion, as well as subsystem-level interactions. We package these components into a software framework that provides common-refinement based methods for transferring data between potentially non-matching meshes, novel and robust face-offsetting methods for tracking Lagrangian surface meshes, as well as integrated support for parallel mesh optimization, remeshing, algebraic manipulations, performance monitoring, and high-level data management and I/O. From these general, reusable framework components we construct domain-specific building blocks to facilitate integration of parallel, multiphysics simulations from high-level specifications that are easy to read and can also be visualized graphically. These reusable building blocks are integrated with independently developed physics codes to perform various multiphysics simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/s00366-006-0034-x
Eng. Comput. (Lond.)
Keywords
Field
DocType
software component,system integration,multiphysics simulation,data management,three dimensional,software framework,computational science and engineering
System software,Polygon mesh,Multiphysics,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Ranging,Computational science,Rocket,Data management,Software framework,System integration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
3
0177-0667
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.77
11
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiangmin Jiao132731.80
Gengbin Zheng282955.03
Phillip A. Alexander370.77
Michael T. Campbell4283.09
Orion S. Lawlor5525.80
John Norris670.77
Andreas Haselbacher770.77
Michael T. Heath836673.58