Some New Directions in Science on Computers

by Bhanot, Gyan; Chen, Shiyi; Seiden, Philip

• ISBN13: 9789810231965
• ISBN10: 9810231962
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Describes a new and emerging field of research called Computational Science in which computers play a critical role in addressing both theoretical and practical issues in a variety of disciplines such as physics, biology, astrophysics, and weather modeling.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Fluids	3	(88)
CFD Analysis and Design Optimization Using Parallel Computers	3	(38)
L. Martinelli
J. J. Alonso
A. Jameson
J. Reuther
Numerical Simulations of Growth Kinetics and Spinodal Decomposition in Fluids	41	(23)
Turab Lookman
Modern Shock Capturing Methods for Conservation Laws	64	(27)
Shi Jin
Materials	91	(56)
Simulating Materials Failure Using Parallel Molecular Dynamics	91	(23)
Farid Abraham
Semiconductor Device Physics and the Modeling of Small Semiconductor Devices	114	(33)
Steven E. Laux
Massimo V. Fischetti
Statistical Mechanics	147	(26)
Cellular Automata and Self Organized Criticality	147	(26)
Michael J. Creutz
Chemistry	173	(30)
Polymer Simulation Using Cellular Automata: 2-D Melts, Gel-Electrophoresis and Polymer Collapse	173	(30)
Yaneer Bar- Yam
Biology	203	(74)
Prediction of DNA Structural Variability, A New Computational Method for Finding DNA Regulatory Regions	203	(25)
Craig Benham
Analysis of Population Phenomena in Neuronal Networks with Electrophysiology and Computer Simulations	228	(25)
Roger Traub
John G. Jeffreys
A Simulation of the Immune System	253	(24)
Philip E. Seiden
Franco Celada
Astrophysics	277	(20)
Applications of N-body Methods to Studies of Large Scale Structure Formation in the Universe	277	(20)
Randall Splinter
S. Bhavsar
Geophysics	297
Global Ocean Simulations with an Isopycnic Coordinate Model	297
Rainer Bleck
Shan Sun
Sumner Dean