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Collins, M. W. and Lockerby, Duncan A. (2011) Editorial introduction : modelling the mesoscale. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, Vol.76 (No.5). pp. 643-649. doi:10.1093/imamat/hxr040 ISSN 0272-4960.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxr040
Abstract
Within the working lives of many of our readers, little short of a scientific revolution has taken place. The
first activity after graduation for one of us (MWC) was in using an English Electric Digital Electronic
Universal Computing computer (DEUCE) to undertake design optimization studies for Magnox nuclear
reactor systems. In terms of computing history, DEUCE was a venerable design; English Electric Co Ltd
introduced it as a commercial version of the Pilot Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), which was a
smaller version of Turing’s ACE (DEUCE, 2011). But what was a revelation to a new graduate is, looking
back, archaic in the extreme. Perhaps, our reactions are dulled by familiarization, but the advances of
computational facilities are in fact breathtaking and continually opening up new worlds of mathematical
and numerical modelling. Further, if this is what constitutes a revolution that revolution should be seen
as including the parallel developments in experimental capabilities. Nowhere is this more evident than in
the field of non-invasive optical methods and their use of lasers. This may readily be appreciated by, say,
viewing typical copies of Laser Focus World and Bio-Optics World, research-oriented trade magazines
published by the Pennwell Corporation. We need to adjust our thinking sharply downscale, for example,
in biomedicine, even to intracellular processes. So, whether in the push provided by computational
power, or the pull generated by new ultrascale experimental data, modellers have to investigate smaller
and smaller scales.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > Engineering | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Mesoscopic phenomena (Physics) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics | ||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0272-4960 | ||||
Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.76 | ||||
Number: | No.5 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 643-649 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1093/imamat/hxr040 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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