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Massively Parallel Computing and Massive Impacts for ChE [Blog Series]

November 29, 2012

This is Part 9 in the ChEnected series "We Are ChE: Entering a Golden Age". It is authored by Incoming 2013 AIChE president Phil Westmoreland. 

Chemical engineers saw the value of computers for their work early, as described in the previous post. For ChEs today, computing power has taken two directions, toward powerful simulations on one hand and powerful use of data on the other. In this post, I’m writing about simulation and how supercomputing is making valuable predictions possible.

Simulation and predictions

“Simulation” for ChEs usually means either predicting properties, such as enthalpies or crystal shapes, or predicting system behavior, such as with a process design model.

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Dr. Phillip R. Westmoreland

Phil Westmoreland is a professor at North CarolinaState University in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His research focuses on reaction kinetics and engineering, obtained from experiments, computational chemistry and reactor modeling. His Chemical Engineering degrees are fromN.C. State (BS73), LSU (MS74) and MIT (PhD86). From 1986-2009, Phil was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and in 2006-2009 he served as a Program Director at NSF.

He was 2013 AIChE President; is a Trustee and past president of the educational nonprofit CACHE Corporation; and was...Read more