MOOSE

Description

The Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE) is a finite-element, multiphysics framework primarily developed by Idaho National Laboratory. It provides a high-level interface to some of the most sophisticated nonlinear solver technology. MOOSE presents a straightforward API that aligns well with the real-world problems scientists and engineers need to tackle. 

Some of the capabilities of MOOSE are as follows:

  • Fully-coupled, fully-implicit multiphysics solver
  • Dimension independent physics
  • Automatically parallel (up to 100,000 cores!)
  • Modular development simplifies code reuse
  • Built-in mesh adaptivity
  • Continuous and Discontinuous Galerkin (DG)
  • Intuitive parallel multiscale solves
  • Dimension agnostic, parallel geometric search
  • Flexible, plugable graphical user interface
  • ~30 plugable interfaces allow specialization of every part of the solve
  • Physics modules providing general capability for solid mechanics, phase field modeling, Navier-Stokes, heat conduction and more.

How to build MOOSE

These instructions were adapted from the official MOOSE build instructions using gcc and MPICH. However please do not follow those instructions since they instruct you to build your own gcc, PETSc and MPICH which will (at best) give you a very slow build of MOOSE and (more likely) not work at all.

Downloading MOOSE using Git

To download the release use:  

mkdir ~/MOOSE_BUILD
cd ~/MOOSE_BUILD
git clone https://github.com/idaholab/moose.git
cd moose
git checkout master

Creating a file for module environments (e.g. ~/source_me_for_MOOSE)

cat >~/source_me_for_MOOSE <<EOF
module swap PrgEnv-cray PrgEnv-gnu
module load cray-hdf5-parallel
module load bwpy
module load fftw
module load cray-petsc
module load cray-tpsl
export CC=cc
export CXX=CC
export FC=ftn
export EPYTHON=python2.7
export CPATH="$CPATH:${BWPY_INCLUDE_PATH}:${BWPY_DIR}/usr/include"
export LIBRARY_PATH="$LIBRARY_PATH:${BWPY_LIBRARY_PATH}:${BWPY_DIR}/usr/lib"
export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -Wl,--rpath=${BWPY_LIBRARY_PATH}"
export PETSCDIR=$PETSC_DIR
export CRAYPE_LINK_TYPE=dynamic
export CRAY_ADD_RPATH=yes
EOF

Installing MOOSE

source ~/source_me_for_MOOSE
bwpy-environ -- scripts/update_and_rebuild_libmesh.sh  2>&1 | tee Build_Log
*** This takes about 3 hours.

cd moose/tutorials/darcy_thermo_mech/step01_diffusion
bwpy-environ -- make -j 8
*** This takes about 1 hour.

How to use MOOSE on an interactive mode

qsub -I -l nodes=1:ppn=32 -q debug
*** after interactive mode starts

cd ~/MOOSE_BUILD
source ~/source_me_for_MOOSE
cd moose/tutorials/darcy_thermo_mech/step01_diffusion/problems
aprun -n 1 ../darcy_thermo_mech-opt -i step1.i

Sample test results

Framework Information:
MOOSE Version:           git commit f8a007d7a2 on 2019-06-24
LibMesh Version:         82a1cfa7e84f28c361a0ee7b59dcc99c67e11425
PETSc Version:           3.7.2
Current Time:            Wed Jun 26 15:41:38 2019
Executable Timestamp:    Wed Jun 26 15:41:29 2019

Parallelism:
  Num Processors:          1
  Num Threads:             1

Mesh:
  Parallel Type:           replicated
  Mesh Dimension:          2
  Spatial Dimension:       2
  Nodes:
    Total:                 1111
    Local:                 1111
  Elems:
    Total:                 1000
    Local:                 1000
  Num Subdomains:          1
  Num Partitions:          1

Nonlinear System:
  Num DOFs:                1111
  Num Local DOFs:          1111
  Variables:               "pressure"
  Finite Element Types:    "LAGRANGE"
  Approximation Orders:    "FIRST"

Execution Information:
  Executioner:             Steady
  Solver Mode:             NEWTON
  MOOSE Preconditioner:    SMP (auto)

 0 Nonlinear |R| = 1.326650e+04
      0 Linear |R| = 1.326650e+04
      1 Linear |R| = 2.780515e+01
      2 Linear |R| = 9.809271e-01
      3 Linear |R| = 3.423845e-02
 1 Nonlinear |R| = 3.423845e-02
      0 Linear |R| = 3.423845e-02
      1 Linear |R| = 5.746765e-03
      2 Linear |R| = 2.293476e-04
      3 Linear |R| = 1.162018e-05
      4 Linear |R| = 7.954630e-07
      5 Linear |R| = 4.426672e-08
 2 Nonlinear |R| = 4.426667e-08
 Solve Converged!

Additional Information / References

Last tested: 2019-06-26 by rhaas