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Wepresent the field of computational chemistry from the standpoint of numerical analysis. We introduce the most commonly used models and comment on their applicability. We briefly outline the results of mathematical analysis and then mostly concentrate on the main issues raised by numerical simulations. A special emphasis is laid on recent results in numerical analysis, recent developments of new methods and challenging open issues.

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The influence of high-enthalpy effects on hypersonic turbulent boundary layers is investigated by means of direct numerical simulations (DNS). A quasiadiabatic flat-plate air flow at free-stream Mach number equal to 10 is simulated up to fully developed turbulent conditions using a five-species, chemically reacting model. A companion DNS based on a frozen-chemistry assumption is also carried out, in order to isolate the effect of finite-rate chemical reactions and assess their influence on turbulent quantities. In order to reduce uncertainties associated with turbulence generation at the inlet of the computational domain, both simulations are initiated in the laminar flow region and the flow is let to evolve up to the fully turbulent regime. Modal forcing by means of localized suction and blowing is used to trigger laminar-to-turbulent transition. The high temperatures reached in the near-wall region including the viscous and buffer sublayers activate significant dissociation of both oxygen and nitrogen. This modifies in turn the thermodynamic and transport properties of the reacting mixture, affecting the first-order statistics of thermodynamic quantities. Due to the endothermic nature of the chemical reactions in the forward direction, temperature and density fluctuations in the reacting layer are smaller than in the frozen-chemistry flow. However, the first- and second-order statistics of the velocity field are found to be little affected by the chemical reactions under a scaling that accounts for the modified fluid properties. We also observed that the Strong Reynolds Analogy remains well respected despite the severe hypersonic conditions and that the computed skin friction coefficient distributions match well the results of the Renard-Deck decomposition extended to compressible flows.

Isosurfaces of Q-criterion, colored with the local values of O2 mass fraction for the CN case. The entire computational domain is displayed, along with a zoom on the laminar-to-turbulent transition region.

Building on previous work exploring finite-size error, in a paper published March 28 in Physical Review X (PRX), Xing and Lin introduce a new approach for understanding the finite-size error in condensed matter systems that uses coupled-cluster (CC) theory, one of the most accurate methods for treating electron correlation in quantum many-body systems. To do this, they developed novel tools in numerical analysis that can mathematically explain the various sources of the finite-size error and provide a rigorous error estimate.

To resolve this, rigorous mathematical understanding of CCD and its finite-size error are essential. To achieve this, Xing and Lin had to overcome some new mathematical challenges. For example, the CC theory is a very complicated method even for a standalone finite-size system. This makes it technically even more challenging to analyze its finite-size error, which corresponds to analyzing its convergence when applying the CC calculation to many systems of increasing sizes (all the way up to the whole system, which conceptually is characterized as an infinite-sized one). In fact, it already takes some effort to translate the finite-size error problem into a purely numerical analysis problem (the quadrature error).

It has other implications for practitioners, method developers, and theorists as well. For practitioners, reducing finite-size errors in quantum chemistry methods using techniques such as power-law extrapolation requires an in-depth understanding of the error scaling. This is particularly important when calculations are constrained to small-sized systems due to the steep increase of the computational cost with respect to the system size and limited resources. For method developers, Xing and Lin have shown how to connect the finite-size error to the mature applied mathematical domain of numerical quadrature calculations, which points to new methods for further finite-size error reduction. Meanwhile, for theorists, some critical questions persist: How can the finite-size error analysis be integrated with the study of other equally important error sources in quantum chemistry calculations? How should the finite-size error behavior in many more complicated systems be analyzed?

This work is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Office of Basic Energy Sciences through the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program; the Applied Mathematics Program of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research; and the Simons Investigator Award.

Gypsum plasterboards (Drywalls) are commonly used in building construction due to their fire-resistant properties. When exposed to fire, gypsum undergoes calcination, which leaves fire patterns on the gypsum board that can be used by fire investigators to determine the origin and cause of fires. Numerical prediction of gypsum calcination under fire exposure requires reliable gypsum thermo-chemistry models and material and thermophysical property data. A recently completed study by Eastern Kentucky University, funded by the National Institute of Justice, resulted in a variable heating rate thermo-chemistry model for a regular gypsum board. The study resulted in simplified correlations between the depth of calcination and incident heat flux for a regular gypsum board using experimental measurements and numerical predictions. However, these correlations are limited to regular gypsum boards. Different types of wall lining materials like moisture-resistant drywall, mold and mildew-resistant drywall, fire-resistant drywall, and sound-absorbing drywall are commonly used. These gypsum boards have different elements- like glass fibers, cellulose fiber, mineral wool, copper-based compounds, ammonium phosphate, and borates- added to them to get the desired characteristics. This could significantly change their behavior when exposed to fire. Failure to recognize the differences in the types of gypsum boards and their effect on fire patterns could mislead fire investigations. The proposed project aims to analyze different types of gypsum boards both macroscopically and microscopically. Variable heating rate thermo-chemistry models for different wall lining materials will be developed. Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), and Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) will be used to characterize the calcination of gypsum boards. The developed models will be validated by comparing the temperature predictions with experimental measurements of internal temperature during the dehydration of gypsum boards. Controlled experiments will be conducted to investigate the effect of paint layers on gypsum calcination. A three-dimensional computational model will be developed and validated to analyze the effect of non-uniform heat flux. The sensitivity of each modeling parameter in the entire practical range will be assessed. Detailed microscopic and elemental analyses will be performed to understand the behavior of different types of gypsum boards exposed to fire. A user-friendly executable will be created to help fire investigators estimate the depth of calcination, based on either the known history of fire spread or the output of computational tools such as the Fire Dynamics Simulator. A database of material, thermo-physical, and thermo-chemical properties of different wall lining materials will be developed.

In recent years there has been an increased interest in real-space numericalmethods for electronic structure calculations, such as wavelets, multiwavelets,finite field and finite difference methods. Their development is now spreadingto a growing variety of applications.

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