Material modeling platform

We have conducted a polymer modeling project which aims bridging the molecular characteristics of polymers with macroscopic properties. This requires an integration of various physical models (atomistic, continuum and other mesoscopic models) in a single system, and has a difficulty of multi-scale, multi-physics problem. Here I discuss the strategy we took to achieve the aim. We developed a system called “simulation platform” which provides a common user interface for all simulation programs. The simulation platform provides a common service of data viewing, editing, plotting and graphics, and can be useful for both simulation programmers and simulation users. For constructing such system, we designed a data format called UDF (User Definable Format).