Advanced Scientific Computing Research

In addition to the Grand Challenges, ASCR/MICS sponsors other computationally intensive research projects.

One research team achieved the first direct numerical solution of a quantum mechanical three-body Coulomb problem--specifically, electron-hydrogen ionization.

Another group developed an efficient code for stochastic simulation on a parallel computer, which is being used to study magnetic switching.

Other scientists are simulating the complex instabilities of fluid mixing layers, which can be found everywhere from supernova explosions to petroleum pipelines.

And NERSC's Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE) develops and applies advanced computational methodologies to solve large-scale scientific and engineering problems arising in DOE mission areas involving energy, environmental, and industrial technology. (See further discussion of CCSE's combustion modeling research.)