Supercomputing Strategies for Designing Complex Chemical Processes

在化工过程设计中，流程图是一个重复进行的时间密集型阶段。它主要处理质量和能量平衡问题。这项工作将利用新的计算机体系结构，研究更有效和更可靠的方法来求解建模过程流程图的方程。这项研究应该有助于理解在求解模拟复杂化学过程的方程时利用矢量化和并行处理的方法。研究结果应更广泛地适用于其他工程学科。

In chemical process design, flowsheeting is a time-intensive phase which is done repeatedly. It deals primarily with mass and energy balances. This effort will research into more efficient and reliable methods of solving the equations that model a process flowsheet, taking advantage of new computer architectures. This research should provide an understanding of methods for exploiting vectorization and parallel processing in the solution of equations that model complex chemical processes. The results should be more broadly applicable to other engineering disciplines.