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Rethinking a Century of Fluid Flows

In 1922, English meteorologist Lewis Fry Richardson published Weather Prediction by Numerical Analysis. This influential work included a few pages devoted to a phenomenological model that described the way that multiple fluids (gases and liquids) flow through a porous-medium system and how the model could be used in weather prediction.…
Will Wells
March 5, 2020
An image of a deuteron, the bound state of a proton and a neutronScience

Another First for Quantum

The beginnings of quantum computing bring about many firsts. In 2010 a team led by B. P. Lanyon simulated a hydrogen molecule, H2, on a quantum system for the first time. Last fall research scientists at IBM performed the first quantum calculations of molecules beyond hydrogen and helium. Now a…
Rachel McDowell
May 23, 2018
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OLCF Provides Research Opportunities, HPC Experience for Postdocs

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is charged with a broad task: to develop and apply computational science capabilities that address some of the world’s most pressing concerns. To accomplish this task, the OLCF needs staff members…
Josh Cunningham
September 19, 2017