U.S.-Venezuela Cooperative Research: Mathematical Modelling, Algorithm Development and Simulation of Aluminum Reduction Cells

9805563莱顿 这个美洲计划奖将资助匹兹堡大学的威廉莱顿博士和南多L。Troyano DiBartolomeo，Universidad de Oriente，Puerto拉克鲁斯，委内瑞拉. 该项目的重点是开发日益复杂的电热电池模型和有限元代码，用于模拟铝电解槽（ARC）。 大规模并行计算机和集群的速度和存储容量的增加将在这一努力中发挥重要作用，改进的（ARC）计算算法也将发挥重要作用。 该项目的目标是开发和实施计算机代码的最先进的方法，用于模拟ARC的物理。 该计划将为提高铝生产的安全性和能源效率提供必要的研究工具。 更新后的模型和代码将提供给美国和委内瑞拉的大学和工业专家。 开发日益复杂的电热电池模型及其模拟的有限元代码应该引起美国和委内瑞拉等主要铝生产国的兴趣。 研究代码的最佳运行结果以及代码本身将提供给美国和委内瑞拉的工业研究小组。 ***

9805563 Layton This Americas Program award will fund a cooperative research project between Dr. William Layton, University of Pittsburgh, and Dr. Nando L. Troyano DiBartolomeo, Universidad de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. The focus of the project is to develop increasingly sophisticated electro-thermal cell models and finite element codes for the simulation of aluminum reduction cells (ARC). The increasing speed and storage capacity of massively parallel computers and clusters will play an important role in this effort, as will also improved algorithms in (ARC) computations. The goal of the project is to develop and to implement in computer codes state-of-the-art methods for simulating the physics of ARC. The program would provide a needed research tool for efforts to increase the safety and energy efficiency of aluminum production. The updated models and codes will be made available to university and industrial experts in the field in the US and Venezuela. The development of increasingly sophisticated electro- thermal cell models and finite element codes for their simulation should be of interest to major aluminum producing countries such as the US and Venezuela. Results of the best runs of the research code as well as the code itself will be made available to US and Venezuelan industrial research groups. ***