Multiphysics simulations: Challenges and opportunities

David E. Keyes; Lois C. McInnes; Carol Woodward; William Gropp; Eric Myra; Michael Pernice; John Bell; Jed Brown; Alain Clo; Jeffrey Connors; Emil Constantinescu; Don Estep; Kate Evans; Charbel Farhat; Ammar Hakim; Glenn Hammond; Glen Hansen; Judith Hill; Tobin Isaac; Xiangmin Jiao; Kirk Jordan; Dinesh Kaushik; Efthimios Kaxiras; Alice Koniges; Kihwan Lee; Aaron Lott; Qiming Lu; John Magerlein; Reed Maxwell; Michael McCourt; Miriam Mehl; Roger Pawlowski; Amanda P. Randles; Daniel Reynolds; Beatrice Rivière; Ulrich Rüde; Tim Scheibe; John Shadid; Brendan Sheehan; Mark Shephard; Andrew Siegel; Barry Smith; Xianzhu Tang; Cian Wilson; Barbara Wohlmuth

doi:10.1177/1094342012468181

Multiphysics simulations: Challenges and opportunities

David E. Keyes
, Lois C. McInnes
, Carol Woodward
, William Gropp
, Eric Myra
, Michael Pernice
, John Bell
, Jed Brown
, Alain Clo
, Jeffrey Connors
, Emil Constantinescu
, Don Estep
, Kate Evans
, Charbel Farhat
, Ammar Hakim
, Glenn Hammond
, Glen Hansen
, Judith Hill
, Tobin Isaac
, Xiangmin Jiao

Kirk Jordan, Dinesh Kaushik, Efthimios Kaxiras, Alice Koniges, Kihwan Lee, Aaron Lott, Qiming Lu, John Magerlein, Reed Maxwell, Michael McCourt, Miriam Mehl, Roger Pawlowski, Amanda P. Randles, Daniel Reynolds, Beatrice Rivière, Ulrich Rüde, Tim Scheibe, John Shadid, Brendan Sheehan, Mark Shephard, Andrew Siegel, Barry Smith, Xianzhu Tang, Cian Wilson, Barbara Wohlmuth

Chair of Numerical Analysis

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Columbia University
Argonne National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Idaho National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Colorado State University
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Stanford University
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories
University of Texas at Austin
SUNY
IBM Research
Broad Institute of Harvard University
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Colorado School of Mines
Cornell University
Technical University of Munich
Southern Methodist University
Rice University
Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Abstract

We consider multiphysics applications from algorithmic and architectural perspectives, where "algorithmic" includes both mathematical analysis and computational complexity, and "architectural" includes both software and hardware environments. Many diverse multiphysics applications can be reduced, en route to their computational simulation, to a common algebraic coupling paradigm. Mathematical analysis of multiphysics coupling in this form is not always practical for realistic applications, but model problems representative of applications discussed herein can provide insight. A variety of software frameworks for multiphysics applications have been constructed and refined within disciplinary communities and executed on leading-edge computer systems. We examine several of these, expose some commonalities among them, and attempt to extrapolate best practices to future systems. From our study, we summarize challenges and forecast opportunities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4-83
Number of pages	80
Journal	International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Volume	27
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1094342012468181
State	Published - Feb 2013

Keywords

Multiphysics
implicit and explicit algorithms
loose and tight coupling.
multimodel
multirate
multiscale
strong and weak coupling

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Keyes, D. E., McInnes, L. C., Woodward, C., Gropp, W., Myra, E., Pernice, M., Bell, J., Brown, J., Clo, A., Connors, J., Constantinescu, E., Estep, D., Evans, K., Farhat, C., Hakim, A., Hammond, G., Hansen, G., Hill, J., Isaac, T., ... Wohlmuth, B. (2013). Multiphysics simulations: Challenges and opportunities. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 27(1), 4-83. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094342012468181

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