News tagged with numerical models
Cosmology in a Petri dish
Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth transitioning ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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FLEX-ible insight into flame behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether free-burning or smoldering, uncontrolled fire can threaten life and destroy property. On Earth, a little water, maybe some chemicals, and the fire is smothered.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Scientists probe Indian Ocean for clues to worldwide weather patterns
An international team of researchers will begin gathering in the Indian Ocean next month to study how tropical weather brews there and then moves eastward along the equator with reverberating effects around ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Storing quantum information permanently
Quantum memory is one of the basic building blocks needed for realizing a quantum computer one day. Atac Imamoglu, a professor of quantum electronics, and Renato Renner, a professor of theoretical physics, ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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Tracking the origins of speedy space particles (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interaction during Substorms (THEMIS) spacecraft combined with computer models have helped track the origin of the energetic particles in Earth's ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Mathematical model explains how complex societies emerge, collapse
The instability of large, complex societies is a predictable phenomenon, according to a new mathematical model that explores the emergence of early human societies via warfare. Capturing hundreds of years of human history, ...
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Calculating tidal energy turbines' effects on sediments and fish
The emerging tidal-energy industry is spawning another in its shadow: tidal-energy monitoring. Little is known about tidal turbines' environmental effects and environmentalists, regulators and turbine manufacturers ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Apros software is renewed to simulate clean power plants of the future
The increased requirements on efficient production of clean energy have introduced the necessity to develop new power plant concepts. The basic functionality of the new ideas is tested in small scale pilot plants. Advanced ...
Dec 07, 2010 |
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Planetary magnetic fields: The hunt for better models
Some three thousand kilometers below the surface of the Earth and with temperatures reaching those at the surface of the sun, the core of our home planet is no more within our physical reach today than it ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2010 |
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Meteorologist's weather technology aids soldiers, civilians
(PhysOrg.com) -- From battlefields to civilian settings, David Stauffer’s combination of weather and technology saves lives. Stauffer, a senior research associate and associate professor of meteorology at ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Formation of Saturn's ring moons explained
(PhysOrg.com) -- New computer simulations based on data collected by the Cassini spacecraft mission suggest five of Saturn's moons may have been formed only 10 million years ago, and researchers in France ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Scientists Use Unique Model to Predict Active 2010 Hurricane Season
(PhysOrg.com) -- Florida State University scientists who have developed a unique computer model with a knack for predicting hurricanes with unprecedented accuracy are forecasting an unusually active season this year.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Advanced Analysis Tools Aim to Reduce Uncertainty in Climate Data
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers have developed a new, advanced data-reduction method -- Stochastic Proper Orthogonal Decomposition -- that will greatly improve the capability to deal with ...
Mar 26, 2010 |
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How to see through opaque materials
New experiments show that it's possible to focus light through opaque materials and detect objects hidden behind them, provided you know enough about the material.
Mar 08, 2010 |
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Purdue researchers studied Haitian fault; warned of potential for a large earthquake (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The potential for large earthquakes in Haiti and the Dominican Republic was forecast by a model of the northeastern Caribbean created by a team of experts.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2010 |
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