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In recent years, developments in computational sciences have enabled scientists to create sophisticated software tools and techniques that have contributed to the development of high accuracy numerical models that are used to study physical phenomena. The next level of sophistication addresses the integration or coupling of one or more computational models to simulate a more complex physical system. These coupled systems, are generally multidisciplinary in nature and are now emerge in a broad spectrum of fields in science and engineering such are Earth Sciences, Fusion Energy, Structural Engineering and Astrophysics. This paper presents an introduction to the Distributed Coupling Toolkit (DCT). This library tool provides a user friendly and scalable approach to formulate model coupling in distributed computer environments.
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Berbegall, V., Drummond, L.A., Verdú, G., Vidal, V. (2006). A Purely Distributed Approach for Coupling Scientific and Engineering Applications. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3984. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751649_21
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