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Overture: an object-oriented software system for solving partial differential equations in serial and parallel environments

Conference ·
OSTI ID:460785

The OVERTURE Framework is an object-oriented environment for solving PDEs on serial and parallel architectures. It is a collection of C++ libraries that enables the use of finite difference and finite volume methods at a level that hides the details of the associated data structures, as well as the details of the parallel implementation. It is based on the A++/P++ array class library and is designed for solving problems on a structured grid or a collection of structured grids. In particular, it can use curvilinear grids, adaptive mesh refinement and the composite overlapping grid method to represent problems with complex moving geometry.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
460785
Report Number(s):
LA-UR--97-335; CONF-970342--10; ON: DE97004777
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English