Java for controlling and con guring

This paper describes some Java releated aspects of TENT (TEstbed for Numerical Turbine simulation), a system designed for integrating various codes and tools of a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation system. TENT provides a distributed simulation environment for simulation tasks in energy and propulsion technology, and it allows to connect the diierent tools to an application scenario. TENT uses a component architecture inspired mainly by the JavaBeans speciication. It is based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA,,1]) which is used for the communication of the components in the distributed environment. In this paper we will describe the TENT system architecture, the component architecture, and the application component interface. We also describe the use of Java for controlling the simulation system. This includes a graphical user interface, which is realized using JavaBean components, for conng-uring the components and running the simulation.