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

9805563莱顿这个美洲项目奖将资助匹兹堡大学的威廉·莱顿博士和委内瑞拉拉克鲁斯港东方大学的南多·L·特罗亚诺·迪巴托洛梅奥博士之间的合作研究项目。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，用于铝电解槽(ARC)的模拟。大规模并行计算机和集群的速度和存储容量的提高将在这一努力中发挥重要作用，(ARC)计算中的改进算法也将发挥作用。该项目的目标是开发并在计算机代码中实现模拟弧光物理的最先进的方法。该计划将为提高铝生产的安全性和能效提供必要的研究工具。更新后的型号和代码将提供给美国和委内瑞拉该领域的大学和行业专家。对于美国和委内瑞拉等主要铝生产国来说，开发日益复杂的电热电池模型和用于模拟它们的有限元代码应该是有兴趣的。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团体。***

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. ***