Contact Constraint Enforcement Using the Tribol Interface Physics Library - MFEM Workshop 2023

Explore contact constraint enforcement in large-scale scientific simulations through this conference talk from the MFEM Workshop 2023. Dive into recent additions to the Tribol interface physics library, designed to simplify MPI parallel contact constraint enforcement in large deformation, implicit and explicit continuum solid mechanics simulations using MFEM. Discover Tribol's open-source tools for contact detection, Lagrangian contact methods, and various enforcement techniques. Learn about the newly added domain redecomposer for coalescing proximal contact pairs on a single rank. Understand how Tribol's features seamlessly integrate with MFEM and other MFEM-based codes, offering native support for MFEM data structures. Witness the simplicity of incorporating Tribol features into MFEM-based code through an example integration with Serac, an open-source implicit nonlinear thermal-structural simulation code.