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Guide to Using Sierra

Shaw, Ryan Phillip·Agelastos, Anthony Michael
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Sierra is an engineering mechanics simulation code suite supporting the Nation's Nuclear Weapons mission as well as other customers. It has explicit ties to Sandia National Labs' workflow, including geometry and meshing, design and optimization, and visualization. Distinguishing strengths include "application aware" development, scalability, SQA and V&V, multiple scales, and multi-physics coupling. This document is intended to help new and existing users of Sierra as a user manual and troubleshooting guide.

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Shaw, Ryan Phillip, Agelastos, Anthony Michael. 2019-03-14. Guide to Using Sierra. https://doi.org/10.2172/1761917

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