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Leader: Manuel Maria Gonzalez Alemany
Leader institution: Departamento de Fisica de la Materia Condensada, Facultad de Fisica, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Abstract
Semiconductor nanowires and quantum dots are nanostructures that constitute ideal building blocks for highly integrated...
Leader: Assensi Oliva Llena
Leader institution: UPC, CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Transferència de Calor)
Abstract
DNS is an important area of contemporary fluid dynamics, because of the interest in understanding the physics of turbulence and because it is an essential tool for the...
Leader: Assensi Oliva Llena
Leader institution: UPC, CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Transferència de Calor)
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In this project, DNS simulations of turbulent natural convection flows in open cavities were considered. The main idea was to assess the validity of turbulence models in...
Leader: Assensi Oliva Llena
Leader institution: UPC, CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Transferència de Calor)
Abstract
Direct numerical simulation (DNS) is an important area of contemporary fluid dynamics, because its interest for improving the understanding of the physics of turbulence and...
Leader: Prof. Maciej Lewenstein
Leader institution: ICFO - Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Parc Mediterranea de la Tecnologia; Av. Canal Olimpic s/n; 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona)
Abstract
Small disorder can have great consequences. The Group recently showed that disorder can lead classical...
Leader: Javier Jiménez Sendín
Leader institution: ETSI Aeronáuticos, UP de Madrid
Abstract
In recent years, the dynamics of the buffer layer of wall-bounded turbulent flows has been reasonably well understood, in part because of the contributions of direct numerical...
Leader: Nicolás Lorente
Leader institution: CIN2
Abstract
The conduction properties and bond formation at interfaces of copper and tin phtalocyanines and a silver surface is studied by means of first-principles molecular dynamics simulations under finite bias voltage. The experimental setup...
Leader: Anna Morajko
Leader institution: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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The objective of this research project is to port the existing implementation of the MATE tool to large-scale parallel systems. MATE (Monitoring, Analysis and Tuning Environment) is an on-line automated performance...
Leader: Jorge Íñiguez
Leader institution: Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC)
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This project focused on exploring several avenues for enhancing the magnetoelectric response of the most widely studied multiferroic materials, i.e., those of the BiMO3...
Leader: Frank Fuchs
Leader institution: Institut für Festkörpertheorie und -optik and European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF)
Abstract
Electronic single- and two-particle excitations were studied for systems with spin polarization, even magnetic ordering, and/or spin-orbit...
Leader: Pilar Hernandez Gamazo
Leader institution: Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular-Universidad de Valencia
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The main goal of this project is the computation of non-perturbative matrix elements in Quantum Chromodynamics, that are essential to understand the flavour sector of the Standard...
Leader: Markus Uhlmann
Leader institution: CIEMAT
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The current project considers the problem of the motion of a large number (of the order of 10000) of spherical particles suspended in an incompressible fluid. The dilute mixture is driven through a vertical plane channel by a mean pressure...
Leader: Vassilis Theofilis
Leader institution: UPM
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Vortex phenomena result critical in the context of wake turbulence behind civil aircraft. Understanding instability mechanisms of complex vortex flows is key to controlling the aricraft wake turbulence and hence reducing the spacing...
Leader: Jorge Íñiguez González
Leader institution: Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC)
Abstract
This project focuses on exploring interfacial phenomena in multilayered thin films and superlattices. The work is motivated by the recent observation that...
Leader: Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora
Leader institution: Departament De Fisica Fonamental, Universitat De Barcelona
Abstract
The Group makes use of a "lattice Boltzmann" computational software to study the collective properties of complex fluids subject to external and internal fields. This...
Leader: Vicent Gimenez Gomez
Leader institution: Dept. Fisica Teorica Universitat de Valencia and IFIC
Abstract
The data analysis of the forthcoming LHC collider and B-factories requires an accurate understanding of the strong interaction between quarks in hadrons. QCD is the field theory that...
Leader: Matteo Palassini
Leader institution: Departament de Fisica Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona
Abstract
Correlated electron systems provide a concrete laboratory example of a "complex system" in which simple interactions give rise to a nontrivial, intricate structure. The...
Leader: Fernando Martín
Leader institution: Departamento de Química, C-9. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 28049-Madrid. Spain.
Abstract
Theoretical progress to accurately describe non dissociative and dissociative ionization of molecules exposed to synchrotron radiation and...
Leader: Angel Rubio
Leader institution: Dpto. Fisica de Materiales, Facultad de Quimicas, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Unidad de Fisica de Quimicas, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Unidad de Fisica deMateriales
Abstract
The progressing trend towards smaller and smaller structures in electronics will...
Leader: António Rito Silva
Leader institution: Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC ID/INESC/IST/UTL), Rua Alves Redol, 9 1000-029 Lisboa
Abstract
Software Transactional Memories (STMs) are emerging as a powerful...
Leader: Juan A. Acebron
Leader institution: Departament d Enginyeria Informatica i Matematiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Abstract
The purpose of this project is developing efficient algorithms for the numerical solution of problems in scientific computing (typically, for...
Leader: Jose E. Roman
Leader institution: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Abstract
Eigensolvers lie at the core of many computationally intensive applications, in which very large-scale eigenvalue problems have to be solved. The objective of the project is to enhance the efficiency of...
Leader: Irene Arias
Leader institution: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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The goal of the proposed activity is to use supercomputing to investigate the physics of complex material behavior. Complex phenomena often posses simple underlying physical mechanisms encoded in the form of...
Leader: Javier Jimenez
Leader institution: UPM
Abstract
A turbulent boundary layer under a very strong adverse pressure gradient is simulated at resolutions and Reynolds numbers higher than those presently available. The resulting statistics, and in particular the energy budgets, cannot easily be...
Leader: Markus Uhlmann
Leader institution: CIEMAT
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The current project aims to study via direct numerical simulation (DNS), the basic mechanisms involved in the interaction between a dispersed particle phase and a turbulent flow subjected to a gravitational field. The two-phase flow regime...
Leader: Javier JIMENEZ Sendin
Leader institution: School of Aeronautics, Universidad Politecnica Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain.
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This simulation reproduces a zero-pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer over a flat plate, at Reynolds numbers ranging from Re_theta=600 at the inflow, to 2000...
Leader: Angel Rubio Secades
Leader institution: Universidad del País Vasco
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This project applies state-of-the-art computer simulation tools developed within the ETSF infrastructure (http://ww.etsf.eu) to describe electronic excited states in complex structures, from nano- to bio-...
Leader: Jordi Faraudo
Leader institution: Institut Ciencia de Materials (ICMAB-CSIC)
Abstract
In spite of their importance, the interactions of biocolloids (such as liposomes employed for drug delivery) with cations (electrostatic stability) and external fields (electrokinetics) are still poorly...
Leader: Luis Raul Sanchez Fernandez
Leader institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Abstract
The understanding and control of energy and particle transport in fusion plasmas is essential for the development of a future fusion reactor since the transport level determines the reactor dimensions...
Leader: Assumpta Parreno Garcia
Leader institution: UB
Abstract
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the underlying theory governing the interaction between quarks and gluons, the strong force, and therefore, responsible for all the states of matter in the Universe. Analytical solutions of QCD in the...
Leader: Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll
Leader institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Abstract
Quantum Computers are physical devices that perform computation using systems, such as atoms, photons and circuits, that obey the laws of Quantum Mechanics. While it is known that quantum computers could...
Leader: Thierry Poinsot
Leader institution: CERFACS
Abstract
The CFD Team at CERFACS specializes in ground breaking massively parallel simulations of combustion processes. The code AVBP, used for these studies, has been ported on all available architectures and its linear scalability has been...
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