Affiliations: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Note: [] Corresponding author: Eric T. Phipps, Department of Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800 MS-1318, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA. Tel.: +1 505 284 9268; Fax: +1 505 8457442; E-mail: etphipp@sandia.gov.
Abstract: An approach for incorporating embedded simulation and analysis capabilities in complex simulation codes through template-based generic programming is presented. This approach relies on templating and operator overloading within the C++ language to transform a given calculation into one that can compute a variety of additional quantities that are necessary for many state-of-the-art simulation and analysis algorithms. An approach for incorporating these ideas into complex simulation codes through general graph-based assembly is also presented. These ideas have been implemented within a set of packages in the Trilinos framework and are demonstrated on a simple problem from chemical engineering.
