Sidebar: Joints modeling: A worldwide movement

September, 2014

Matthew Brake, a principal research scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, estimates that several thousand researchers worldwide are striving… Read More

Joint venture

September, 2014

Sandia National Laboratories investigators turn to advanced modeling to test the reliability of the joints that hold nuclear missiles together. Read More

Life underground

August, 2014

A PNNL team builds models of deep-earth water flows that affect the tiny organisms that can make big contributions to… Read More

Supernova shocks

May, 2014

More than 10 years after simulations first suggested its presence, observations appear to confirm that a key instability drives the… Read More

Big explosions, big pictures

May, 2014

For discovering significant supernova phenomena and simulation flaws, several pairs of eyes beat pages of numbers, Anthony Mezzacappa says. Data… Read More

After the thaw

February, 2014

Simulations of melting permafrost promise changes in climate modeling. Read More

Rewinding the universe

December, 2013

Dark energy propels the universe to expand faster and faster. Researchers are using simulations to test different conceptions about how… Read More

Balancing act

October, 2013

A Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researcher is developing approaches to spread the work evenly over scads of processors in a… Read More

Sizing up the scales

September, 2013

Exploring the breaking and rejoining of magnetic-field lines requires simulations and computation. A simulation’s accuracy, however, depends on various issues… Read More

Predicting solar assaults

September, 2013

When Earth’s magnetosphere snaps and crackles, power and communications technologies can break badly. Three-dimensional simulations of magnetic reconnection aim to… Read More