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To prevent the large deformations from causing large distortions and degrading the simulation accuracy, an arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) formulation for coupled finite strain thermoplasticity is developed and incorporated into the solver, in which the motion of the reference configuration is represented incrementally in terms of a reference velocity field. Thus, the deformation from the material configuration is required neither explicitly in terms of a deformation field, nor implicitly in terms of the deformation gradient. The solver is implemented using the deal. II library and programmed for distributed memory parallel computing architectures, which reduces simulation run times and enables simulations with larger meshes than would fit on a single computer. The interprocess communications required in such a distributed memory parallel implementation of the ALE formulation and the thermomechanical friction contact are described and implemented. 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To prevent the large deformations from causing large distortions and degrading the simulation accuracy, an arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) formulation for coupled finite strain thermoplasticity is developed and incorporated into the solver, in which the motion of the reference configuration is represented incrementally in terms of a reference velocity field. Thus, the deformation from the material configuration is required neither explicitly in terms of a deformation field, nor implicitly in terms of the deformation gradient. The solver is implemented using the deal. II library and programmed for distributed memory parallel computing architectures, which reduces simulation run times and enables simulations with larger meshes than would fit on a single computer. The interprocess communications required in such a distributed memory parallel implementation of the ALE formulation and the thermomechanical friction contact are described and implemented. 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