An introduction to LIME 1.0 and its use in coupling codes for multiphysics simulations.

Belcourt, Noel ; Pawlowski, Roger Patrick ; Schmidt, Rodney Cannon ; Hooper, Russell Warren

关键词: COMPUTERS;    COMPUTER CODES;    DESIGN;    MODIFICATIONS;    PHYSICS;    PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;    SIMULATION;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1031303
RP-ID  :  SAND2011-8524
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1031303
Others  :  TRN: US201201%%680

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

LIME is a small software package for creating multiphysics simulation codes. The name was formed as an acronym denoting 'Lightweight Integrating Multiphysics Environment for coupling codes.' LIME is intended to be especially useful when separate computer codes (which may be written in any standard computer language) already exist to solve different parts of a multiphysics problem. LIME provides the key high-level software (written in C++), a well defined approach (with example templates), and interface requirements to enable the assembly of multiple physics codes into a single coupled-multiphysics simulation code. In this report we introduce important software design characteristics of LIME, describe key components of a typical multiphysics application that might be created using LIME, and provide basic examples of its use - including the customized software that must be written by a user. We also describe the types of modifications that may be needed to individual physics codes in order for them to be incorporated into a LIME-based multiphysics application.