Leveraging the Internet for Numerically-Intensive Scientific Applications
Imran Ul Haq, Ali A. Merchant · 2001
We have developed a distributed and extensible environment for modeling multidisciplinary engineering problems using the Internet. The system allows both new and existing numerical tools to be represented as components that connect to form complex simulations. Numerically intensive calculations are relegated to dedicated servers, while a variety of clients--- including web pages and applets--- can be used to control the simulation remotely. A novel event-driven paradigm allows the user to perform "what-if"- type calculations interactively; a minimum amount of data is automatically recalculated by the system. The various features of the environment are demonstrated by computing the compressible flow through a 3D geometry.