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Turbulence

Summit study fathoms troubled waters of ocean turbulence
6 months ago

Summit study fathoms troubled waters of ocean turbulence

By  •  6 months ago  •  Featured, Science, Technology

Simulations performed on the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed new insights into the role of turbulence in mixing fluids and could open new …
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Learning with the flow
7 months ago

Learning with the flow

By  •  7 months ago  •  Featured, Industry, Science

The bigger the swirl, the bigger the problem — and the bigger the computing power needed to solve it.

Computational fluid dynamics researchers have spent decades studying how liquids and …
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A New Parallel Strategy for Tackling Turbulence on Summit
4 years ago

A New Parallel Strategy for Tackling Turbulence on Summit

By  •  4 years ago  •  Featured, Science

Turbulence, the state of disorderly fluid motion, is a scientific puzzle of great complexity. Turbulence permeates many applications in science and engineering, including combustion, pollutant transport, weather forecasting, astrophysics, and …
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Another High-Definition Plasma

By  •  13 years ago  •  Science

A team led by University of Iowa astrophysicist Gregory Howes is using ORNL’s Jaguar supercomputer to explore astrophysical plasma.
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