STEEL STRIP PRODUCTION - A PILOT APPLICATION FOR COUPLED SIMULATION WITH SEVERAL CALCULATION SYSTEMS

For the simulation of technological and natural processes in specific application domains, efficient calculation software solving differenti al equation systems on grid-based computational models is available, e specially in the area of computer-aided engineering (CAE). To handle a so-called 'multiphysics' problem, for example the fluid flow and meta l forming process in a twin-roll casting arrangement for steel strip p roduction, several calculation systems usually have to be employed in a high-performance computing environment, e.g. on parallel computers. The GRISSLi Coupling Interface is a software tool facilitating the cou pled computation based on the message passing standard MPI. (C) 1998 E lsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.