Title: Tools for MultiPhysics Simulation
1Tools for Multi-Physics Simulation
Simula Research Laboratory Oslo,
Norway Department of Informatics, University of
Oslo
2History of the group
Future ideas/visions
multi-physics
PDE components
Python
F77
C
Python
31990s Diffpack applications
I/O
Grid
FDM
Field
FEM
Matrix
Vector
Axb
4A Typical Diffpack PDE Solver
Class P1 Grid grid Field p LinEqAdm
Axb integrands () K()
Evaluate integrands in weak form Evaluate
variable coefficient
5Principal Diffpack collaborators
Key names Are Magnus Bruaset, Xing Cai, Hans
Petter Langtangen, Aslak Tveito,
6Diffpack distribution
- 1995 1997 Open source versions
- 1997-2003 Numerical Objects
- 2003-? inuTech
- Free test version (size limit)
- Simula collaborators have free access
- Customers include Cornell, Stanford, LLNL, Intel,
NASA, Shell, IFP, DaimlerCrysler, Mitsubishi, ... - gt200 customers in gt30 countries
7Long-term basic research is needed to develop
core technology
1990 -
8Some Diffpack features
- Linear solvers and preconditioners
- Grids and scalar/vector fields
- Biased towards FEM, support for FDM
- Mixed FEM, block systems
- Systems of PDEs
- Stochastic PDEs
- Multilevel solution
- Adaptive mesh (h-adaptivity)
- Parallel computing
- Problem solving environment
9We have always been interested in core
technologies, but these also need application
outlets
PDEs
FEM
OOP
Python
C
Axb
10Some Diffpack applications
- Heat and phase transfer
- Viscous laminar and turbulent flow
- Thermo-elastic-plastic deformation
- Electromagnetics
- Chemical reactors
- Design of quantum computers
- Stochastic porous media flow
- Electrical activity in the heart
- Tsunami simulation
- ...
11Simula is a new government lab for advanced ICT
research
High quality research Educate graduate
university students Prepare for research- based
business
Startup Jan 1, 2001
12Research groups were selected by competition
11 Applicants
Software Engineering
Scientific Computing
Networks and Distributed Systems
13Simula emphasizes large projects
Inverse problems
Computational geosciences
Software for PDEs
Cardiac Computing
14Computing the electrical activity in the heart
15This is a computationally intensive problem
16Computational geosciences
- Goal find more oil!
- Compute geological evolution
- Multi-resolution visualization
- PDEs for deposition/erosion
- Flow, heat, deformation
- Software integration
- Advanced tools for tracking geological events
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18The Storegga Slide (8150 yrsBP)
Headwall 300 km Run-out ? 800 km Volume ?
5.600 km3 Area ? 34.000 km2
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20The Mjølnir asteroide impact
21Barents Sea, 142 mill. years ago
22The Mjølnir event was 1000 times stronger than
the Dec 26, 2004 event!
23The Mjølnir tsunami consisted of a series of
individual waves
24The evolution of the front of the tsunami
25The tragic Dec 26, 2004 tsunami
- How was the earthquake-induced bottom lift?
- Tsunami simulations yield important constraints
26Welding
Courtesy of University of Ã…lborg and Odense Steel
Shipyard
27The Silent Wings soaring simulator uses advanced
terrain visualization
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29We have made international impact on scientific
software
The scientific computing group is concerned with
applying modern software engineering practices to
scientific software. This group has achieved
international distinction by calling attention to
the feasibility and desirability of subjecting
scientific software a niche area to this
discipline. DIFFPACK (now commercialized) has
wielded an enormous influence on other scientific
software around the world. The publication
record of this group is impressive, and includes
internationally published books that go a long
way to defining scientific software
engineering, - Evaluation of ICT groups at
Norwegian Universities (2002)
30Higher-level tools encourage flexible software
integration
SWIG
3rd party
Python
Diffpack
F2PY
Simula code
31SWIG
GiNaC
Python
C/F77
SWIG/F2PY
FAMMS