A framework for multi-scale modelling.

Chopard B; Borgdorff J; Hoekstra AG

doi:10.1098/rsta.2013.0378

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A framework for multi-scale modelling.

Chopard B Department of Computer Science, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland bastien.chopard@unige.ch.
Borgdorff J Department of Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Hoekstra AG Department of Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands National Research University ITMO, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

2014-07-02

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Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences. - 2014

English We review a methodology to design, implement and execute multi-scale and multi-science numerical simulations. We identify important ingredients of multi-scale modelling and give a precise definition of them. Our framework assumes that a multi-scale model can be formulated in terms of a collection of coupled single-scale submodels. With concepts such as the scale separation map, the generic submodel execution loop (SEL) and the coupling templates, one can define a multi-scale modelling language which is a bridge between the application design and the computer implementation. Our approach has been successfully applied to an increasing number of applications from different fields of science and technology.

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