on a pump casing
model using the
finite element method Computational engineering finds diverse applications, including in: •
Aerospace engineering and
Mechanical Engineering:
combustion simulations,
structural dynamics,
computational fluid dynamics,
computational thermodynamics, computational solid mechanics, vehicle crash simulation, biomechanics, trajectory calculation of satellites • Astrophysical systems •
Battlefield simulations and military gaming,
homeland security, emergency response •
Biology and
Medicine: protein folding simulations (and other macromolecules), bioinformatics, genomics, computational neurological modeling, modeling of biological systems (e.g., ecological systems), 3D CT ultrasound, MRI imaging, molecular bionetworks, cancer and seizure control •
Chemistry: calculating the structures and properties of chemical compounds/molecules and solids,
computational chemistry/cheminformatics, molecular mechanics simulations, computational chemical methods in
solid-state physics, chemical pollution transport •
Civil Engineering:
finite element analysis, structures with random loads, construction engineering, water supply systems, transportation/vehicle modeling •
Computer Engineering,
Electrical Engineering, and
Telecommunications: VLSI, computational electromagnetics, semiconductor modeling, simulation of microelectronics, energy infrastructure, RF simulation, networks •
Epidemiology: influenza spread •
Environmental Engineering and
Numerical weather prediction:
climate research,
Computational geophysics (seismic processing), modeling of natural disasters •
Finance: derivative pricing, risk management •
Industrial Engineering: discrete event and Monte-Carlo simulations (for logistics and manufacturing systems for example), queueing networks,
mathematical optimization •
Material Science: glass manufacturing, polymers, and crystals •
Nuclear Engineering: nuclear reactor modeling, radiation shielding simulations, fusion simulations •
Petroleum engineering: petroleum reservoir modeling, oil and gas exploration •
Physics: Computational particle physics, automatic calculation of particle interaction or decay, plasma modeling, cosmological simulations •
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