The virtual laboratory
Thursday, July 23, 2015 - 07:10
in Physics & Chemistry
Supercomputers can be used to simulate materials at vastly diverse scales, from the flow of air past an aeroplane's wing down to the movement of electrons around individual atoms. Different length and time scale domains provide different levels of information, but little is currently known about how these levels of information are connected. Professor Peter Coveney of University College London has been spearheading a long-term programme that aims to connect the scales, relating the behaviour of atoms and molecules to tangible properties at the macroscale.