title: IMPETUS - Interactive MultiPhysics Environment for Unified Simulations.
abstract: We introduce IMPETUS - Interactive MultiPhysics Environment for Unified Simulations, an object oriented, easy-to-use, high performance, C++ program for three-dimensional simulations of complex physical systems that can benefit a large variety of research areas, especially in cell mechanics. The program implements cross-communication between locally interacting particles and continuum models residing in the same physical space while a network facilitates long-range particle interactions. Message Passing Interface is used for inter-processor communication for all simulations.
authors.affiliation: Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
authors.forename: Vi Q
authors.initials: VQ
authors.lastname: Ha
authors.affiliation: Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA; Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lykotrafitis
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D055595:Mechanical Phenomena; D008954:Models, Biological; D011381:Programming Languages
keywords: Coarse-grain molecular dynamics; Emergence in complex systems; High-performance cluster computing; Modular object oriented programming