News tagged with numerical computing

Climate scientists compute in concert

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are sharing computational resources and expertise to improve the detail and performance of a scientific application code that is the product of one of the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Stellar astrophysics explains the behavior of fast rotating neutron stars in binary systems

Pulsars are among the most exotic celestial bodies known. They have diameters of about 20 kilometres, but at the same time roughly the mass of our sun. A sugar-cube sized piece of its ultra-compact matter ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Hints of universal behavior seen in exotic three-atom states

A novel type of inter-particle binding predicted in 1970 and observed for the first time in 2006, is forming the basis for an intriguing kind of ultracold quantum chemistry. Chilled to nano-kelvin temperatures, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

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

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mathematically ranking ranking methods

In a world where everything from placement in a Google search result to World Cup eligibility depends on ranking and numerical ratings of some kind, it is becoming increasingly important to analyze the algorithms and techniques ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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

created Nov 25, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists investigate fate of five-dimensional black strings

(PhysOrg.com) -- While black holes in four-dimensional space-time are stable and can persist for a long time, their higher-dimensional analogues are usually unstable. One such theoretical analogue is a five-dimensional ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (36) | comments 14 | with audio podcast feature

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 ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

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

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Math goes to the movies

Whether it's an exploding fireball in "Star Wars: Episode 3", a swirling maelstrom in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", or beguiling rats turning out gourmet food in "Ratatouille", computer-generated ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop virtual streams to help restore real ones

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a unique new computer model called the Virtual StreamLab, designed to help restore real streams to a healthier state. The Virtual StreamLab, which demonstrates the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists assess flooding and damage from 2008 Myanmar cyclone

Tropical cyclone Nargis made landfall in the Asian nation of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, causing the worst natural disaster in the country's recorded history - with a death toll that may have exceeded 138,000. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

From three to four: a quantum leap in few-body physics

Scientists from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, led by Rudolf Grimm offer new insights into the extremely complex few-body problem. For the first time, the quantum physicists provide evidence of universal ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3