The Role of Couplers in Chemical, Model-Based Engineering

Abstract

Interdisciplinary computational engineering work implies the use of different programs taken from different disciplines and performing a series of concerted computations. The user is thereby faced with the task to bring together different code that has not been designed to interact with each other. Rather they are stand- alone pieces of software that require information and that produce some well-define results. Couplers provide the infrastructure to bring such pieces to talk together and form a computation environment assembled for a specific purpose.