Multiscale Computational Laboratory

This lab is used for computational modeling of multiscale multifunctional materials, including fibrous, particulate or energy dissipative media in the applications of energy systems, MEMS and advanced composites. Three graduate students are currently working in this lab. Computational equipments include four high performance Pentium4 computers @3.2GHZ and 2G RAM. The multiphysics simulation software COMSOL is installed on the computers for general-purpose numerical analysis, visualization and image processing. The lab also has the full access to ABAQUS, ANSYS and FLUENT installed on the departmental Sun Server. In addition, the lab is frequently used for undergraduate and graduate education in the following three courses: Computational Methods in Advanced Materials, Elasticity and Introduction to Engineering Computational Tools.