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Large Scale Lattice Boltzmann Simulation for the Coupling of Free and Porous Media Flow Read chapter Read first chapter

2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Chrono: An Open Source Multi-physics Dynamics Engine

Authors : Alessandro Tasora, Radu Serban, Hammad Mazhar, Arman Pazouki, Daniel Melanz, Jonathan Fleischmann, Michael Taylor, Hiroyuki Sugiyama, Dan Negrut

Published in: High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering

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We provide an overview of a multi-physics dynamics engine called Chrono. Its forte is the handling of complex and large dynamic systems containing millions of rigid bodies that interact through frictional contact. Chrono has been recently augmented to support the modeling of fluid-solid interaction (FSI) problems and linear and nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA). We discuss Chrono’s software layout/design and outline some of the modeling and numerical solution techniques at the cornerstone of this dynamics engine. We briefly report on some validation studies that gauge the predictive attribute of the software solution. Chrono is released as open source under a permissive BSD3 license and available for download on GitHub.

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Metadata
Title
Chrono: An Open Source Multi-physics Dynamics Engine
Authors
Alessandro Tasora
Radu Serban
Hammad Mazhar
Arman Pazouki
Daniel Melanz
Jonathan Fleischmann
Michael Taylor
Hiroyuki Sugiyama
Dan Negrut
Copyright Year
2016
Book
High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-40360-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-40361-8

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40361-8_2

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