CSAR Noon Seminar

Xiangmin (Jim) Jiao and Gengbin Zheng, UIUC/CSAR

DATE: Wednesday, May 18, 2005
TIME: 12:00 Noon
PLACE: 2240 DCL
1304 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL

TITLE: High-Level Software Architecture for Integrated Rocket Simulations

ABSTRACT

Numerical simulations of complex large-scale multiphysics systems, such as the simulation of rockets, pose challenges in many areas, including physical modeling, numerical and geometric computations, and software environment. In this talk, we revisit some key software issues that arose during the development and integration of CSAR's software suite, Rocstar, to accommodate the demands of fast evolution of its various physical, numerical, and middleware components. We focus particularly on the Roccom software integration framework, the framework service utilities, and the Rocman orchestration framework. We review the rationale behind this high-level architecture and summarize some key lessons and remaining challenges in meeting the ultimate goals of rocket simulations.