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

Sandia National Laboratories

关键词: Modifications;    Programming Languages;    99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;    Computers;    Simulation;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1031303
RP-ID  :  SAND2011-8524
RP-ID  :  AC04-94AL85000
RP-ID  :  1031303

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 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.