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Title: Hybrid Optimization Software Suite

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OSTI ID:1369045

The hybrid optimization software suite (HOSS) is a general purpose fully 2D/3D parallel combined finite discrete element (FDEM) code that can be used to simulate problems involving fracture and fragmentation processes, large deformation and large rotations, discrete particle systems, solid-fluid interaction in hydro fracture problems, etc. HOSS uses a hybrid approach that combines finite-element and discrete-element methods with a novel computational fluid dynamics solver. The finite-element method is often used to analyze a material or object and how it responds to stress. The discrete-element method analyzes stresses and displacements in a volume containing a large number of particles, such as grains of sand. Fluid dynamics analyzes the fluid flow inside, around, or through solid domains. With these processes combined, HOSS represents a paradigm shift when it comes to generating accurate simulations of material deformations and failure. HOSS can perform the following: Resolves problems that consist of millions of deforming fracturing, and interacting solid particles; Requires no coupling—it naturally integrates with all regimes of fluid flow; Resolves all regimes of fluid flow, such as Stokes, low/high Reynolds, subsonic/transonic/supersonic/hypersonic, compressible/incompressible, viscid/inviscid, Newtonian/Non-Newtonian and turbulent/laminar flow; Combines all flow regimes in the same solver; Numerically stable for all flow regimes; Naturally combines different flow regimes in the same problem; Possesses material library for fluid behavior; Naturally matches fluid solver to solid solver; Includes non-inertial Eulerian formulation for fluids; Uses highly efficient parallel computing based on the Virtual Parallel Machine, thus enabling easy porting between different parallel architectures, including possible future architectures; Designed specifically for multi-physics problems in research and industry in virtual experimentation format, thereby complementing both theoretical-computational and experimental tools; Can be extended to address millions of deforming solid particles immersed in fluid flowing at all regimes; Can be extended to address biological applications, such as modeling bone fracture or red blood cells in blood plasma

Short Name / Acronym:
HOSS MANUAL; 005348MLTPL00
Site Accession Number:
C13170
Version:
00
Programming Language(s):
Medium: X; OS: Linux or Windows 7 or higher
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Contributing Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1369045
Country of Origin:
United States

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