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A new problem in scientific computing is the merging of existing simulation models to create new, higher fidelity combined models. This has been a driving force in climate modeling for nearly a decade now, and fusion energy, space weather modeling are starting to integrate different sub-physics into a single model. Through component-based software engineering, an interface supporting this coupling process provides a way to invoke the sub-model through the common interface which the top model uses, then a coupled model turns into a higher level model. In addition to allowing applications to switch among linear solvers, a linear solver interface is also needed for the model coupling. A linear solver interface helps in creating solvers for the integrated multi-physics simulation that combines separate codes, and can use each code’s native and specialized solver for the sub-problem corresponding to each physics sub-model. This paper presents a new approach on coupling multi-physics codes in terms of coupled solver, and shows the successful proof for coupled simulation through the implicit solve.
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Liu, F., Sosonkina, M., Bramley, R. (2010). A New Approach: Component-Based Multi-physics Coupling through CCA-LISI. In: Taniar, D., Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Pardede, E., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010. ICCSA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6017. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12165-4_40
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