User Interface

MpCCI has been designed as a neutral interface between a lot of commercial and inhouse simulation codes. As the user interfaces of the coupled codes differ, MpCCI itself provides a unique and code-independent way to specify all coupling relevant parameters and to configure and start the coupled application on a computing network. The GUI guides the application engineers through a number of basic configuration steps towards a coupled simulation run:

	The user has to select the codes and to specify the corresponding input files containing the model data;
	The next step is to select those element groups in each of the coupled codes which define a coupling region where the coupling interaction takes place; any number of independent coupling regions can be specified during MpCCI setup.
	For each of these coupled components the quantities to be transferred have to be specified; quantities may be physical values like pressure or temperature.
	Additional coupling parameters like neighborhood search configuration, mesh quality checks, or output parameters can be set.
	Finally the job can be started on a network of computing resources. The MpCCI server has to be launched first. Then the coupled codes will be activated, either in batch or in interactive mode.