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May 24 | News
Through advanced computer modeling of house fires, mechanical engineers at the University of New South Wales are giving fire fighters a new suite of tools to investigate and battle dangerous blazes in time for the traditionally high-risk winter months. Beginning with an ignition point, the models can map how fires behave as they grow, accurately predicting their overall temperature and pinpointing dangerous hotspots that responding personnel should avoid.
May 23 | News
A Sandia National Laboratories modeling study contradicts a long-held belief of geologists that pore sizes and chemical compositions are uniform throughout a given strata, which are horizontal slices of sedimentary rock. By understanding the variety of pore sizes and spatial patterns in strata, geologists can help achieve more production from underground oil reservoirs and water aquifers.
May 23 | News
New research from North
Carolina State University shows that a wind-driven "tumbleweed" Mars
rover would be capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain—findings
that could also help the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA)
design the best possible vehicle.
May 23 | News
A new study by civil engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that using stiffer pavements on the nation's roads could reduce vehicle fuel consumption by as much as 3%—a savings that could add up to 273 million barrels of crude oil per year, or $15.6 billion at today's oil prices. This would result in an accompanying annual decrease in carbon dioxide emissions of 46.5 million metric tons.
May 21 | News
Multiphysics,
COMSOL’s software environment for modeling and simulating any
physics-based system, recently received a major update. New capabilities
in version 4.3 include three new discipline-specific add-on modules,
fast and powerful meshing, a new "Double Dogleg" solver for mechanical
contact and highly nonlinear simulations, and numerous user-inspired
enhancements.
May 21 | News
According
to a recent computational study, pollution is warming the atmosphere by
intensifying summer thunderstorm clouds. The effect, say researchers,
outweigh any cooling factors provided by clouds, and global climate
models don't see this effect because thunderstorm clouds simulated in
those models do not include enough detail.
May 18 | News
A collaboration
between Lehigh University
physicists and University
of Miami biologists
addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: How
do
living cells figure out when and where to grow?
May 16 | News
A multiyear collaboration among Stanford University engineering departments uses some of the world's fastest supercomputers to model the complexities of hypersonic flight. Someday, their work may lead to planes that fly at many times the speed of sound.
May 15 | White Papers
Modeling and simulation tools can help researchers understand and optimize the design of lithium-ion batteries.
May 10 | News
For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault—both during an earthquake and at times of "rest"—in order to know more about how a particular region may behave in the future. Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed the first computer model of an earthquake-producing fault segment that reproduces, in a single physical framework, the available observations of both the fault's seismic (fast) and aseismic (slow) behavior.
