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Foil 15 Selection of Motivating Applications

From Introduction to Computational Science CPS615 Computational Science Class -- Spring Semester 2000. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Large Scale Simulations in Engineering
  • Model airflow around an aircraft
  • Study environmental issues -- flow of contaminants
  • Forecast weather
  • Oil Industry: Reservoir Simulation and analysis of Seismic data
2 Large Scale Academic Simulations (Physics, Chemistry, Biology)
  • Study of Evolution of Universe
  • Study of fundamental particles: Quarks and Gluons
  • Study of protein folding
  • Study of catalysts
  • Forecast Earthquakes (has real world relevance)
3 "Other Critical Real World Applications"
  • Transaction Processing
  • Web Search Engines and Web Document Repositories
  • Run optimization and classification algorithms in datamining of Enterprise Information Systems
  • Model Financial Instruments
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