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Advanced Simulation Library (ASL) is free and open-source

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simulation platform. It enables users to write customized numerical solvers in C++ and deploy them on a variety of massively parallel architectures, ranging from inexpensive FPGAs, DSPs and GPUs up to heterogeneous clusters and supercomputers. Its internal computational engine is written in

OpenCL OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-progra ...

and utilizes matrix-free solution techniques. ASL implements variety of modern numerical methods, i.a.

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, lattice Boltzmann, immersed Boundary. Mesh-free, immersed boundary approach allows users to move from CAD directly to simulation, reducing pre-processing efforts and number of potential errors. ASL can be used to model various coupled physical and chemical phenomena, especially in the field of

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. It is distributed under the free

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with an optional commercial license (which is based on the permissive

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History

Advanced Simulation Library is being developed by Avtech Scientific, an Israeli company. Its source code was released to the community on 14 May 2015, whose members packaged it for scientific sections of all major

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distributions shortly thereafter. Subsequently,

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acknowledged the significance of ASL and listed it on its website among OpenCL-based resources.

Application areas

Computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate th ...

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* Industrial process data validation and reconciliation *

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Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

* C++ API (no OpenCL knowledge required) * Mesh-free, immersed boundary approach allows users to move from CAD directly to computations reducing pre-processing effort * Dynamic compilation enables an additional layer of optimization at run-time (i.e. for a specific parameters set the application was provided with) * Automatic hardware acceleration and parallelization of applications * Deployment of same program on a variety of parallel architectures - GPU, APU, FPGA, DSP, multicore CPUs * Ability to deal with complex boundaries * Ability to incorporate microscopic interactions * Availability of the source code

Disadvantages

* Absence of detailed documentation (besides the Developer Guide generated from the source code comments) * Not all OpenCL drivers are mature enough for the library

Features

ASL provides a range of features to solve number of problems - from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid mechanics and elasticity. * Interfacing:

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(export). ** import file formats: .stl .vtp .vtk .vti .mnc .dcm ** export file formats: .vti .mat * Geometry: ** flexible and complex geometry using simple rectangular grid ** mesh-free, immersed boundary approach ** generation and manipulation of geometric primitives * Implemented phenomena: ** Transport processes *** multicomponent transport processes *** compressible and incompressible fluid flow ** Chemical reactions *** electrode reactions ** Elasticity *** homogeneous isotropic elasticity *** homogeneous isotropic poroelasticity ** Interface tracking *** evolution of an interface *** evolution of an interface with crystallographic kinetics

Uses

* ACTIVE - Active Constraints Technologies for Ill-defined or Volatile Environments (European FP7 Project)

References

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