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Modeling Every Building in America Starts with Chattanooga

Buildings use 40 percent of America’s primary energy and 75 percent of its electricity, which can jump to 80 percent when a majority of the population is at home using heating or cooling systems and the seasons reach their extremes. The US Department of Energy’s (DOE)’s Building Technologies Office (BTO),…
Rachel McDowell
November 13, 2019
Science

Going Nuclear

To increase efficiency and enhance nuclear safety, a team led by Igor Bolotnov of North Carolina State University has turned to Titan to perform state-of-the-art direct numerical simulation (DNS) to characterize such turbulent bubbly flows.
Scott Jones
June 2, 2014
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Boosting Bioenergy

A team led by ORNL’s Jeremy Smith, the director of ORNL’s Center for Molecular Biophysics and a Governor’s Chair at the University of Tennessee, has uncovered information that could help others harvest energy from plant mass.
OLCF Staff Writer
January 2, 2014
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OLCF Partner Wins Major Industry Award

An OLCF industrial partner was recently named a winner of International Data Corporation’s (IDC) HPC Innovation Excellence Award, announced in Salt Lake City, Utah at the annual supercomputing conference SC12.
Scott Jones
November 16, 2012
Science

Simulating Turbulent Combustion Speeds Design of Power and Propulsion Devices

Supercomputers help optimize engines, turbines, and other technologies for clean energy High-fidelity large eddy simulation (LES) of direct-injection processes in internal-combustion engines provides an essential component for development of high-efficiency, low-emissions vehicles. Here LES reveals how fuel from a state-of-the-art injector mixes with air inside an engine cylinder. Image credit:…
Dawn Levy
September 12, 2011