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• Key Concepts
  • What's a coupler?
    
  • Dynamic Coupling
    
  • Parallel Coupling
    
  • End-point Communications
    
  • Graphical User Interface PrePALM
    
  • Algebra Toolbox
    
  • Run Time Monitoring
    
  • Performances Analysis
    
• Application Domains
  • Model Coupling
    
  • Data Assimilation
    
  • Code Assembling
    
• History
  
  • The Genesis of the Project
    
  • PALM_SP
    
  • PALM_MP
    
  • OpenPALM
    
  • The PALM Team
    
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Model Coupling

OpenPALM proves to be a very effective coupler for all the applications built upon existing independent models.

The most useful OpenPALM features for such applications are:

• The graphical user interface, making the set-up of a coupled application very simple, even with many coupled models.
  
• The independent interfaces, allowing the use of existing models with very few changes, no matter what the other coupled entities are.
• The management of parallel communications, making the coupling of parallel models almost automatic.
• The dynamic coupling capabilities, allowing more flexible coupling strategies.
• The explicit time reference for the exchanged fields, allowing the coupling of iterative models with different time steps.
• The predefined algebra toolbox, allowing field manipulations, conversions and interpolations on the fly.
• The debugging, performances analysis and run time monitoring tools, simplifying the set-up, the tuning and the control of coupled applications.
• The efficient parallel grid to grid mapping and interpolation for multiphysics applications based on the CWIPI library.

Some examples of coupled applications built upon OpenPALM are found in the "applications" section.