Mathematical Modeling of Reaction-Transport Systems

该奖项将提供一半的资金， 购买一个计算系统，用于数学建模， 发生的化学反应和元素的迁移 在岩石的变质过程中。 设备将存放在 印第安纳州大学。 计算系统将用于交互式模拟 水-岩相互作用 反应和输运方程 结合应力和界面能的依赖性， 将模拟平衡常数以预测形成 分层和其他形式的自我组织， 变质岩。

This award will provide one-half the funds necessary to purchase a computing system to be used in mathematical modeling of the chemical reactions and transport of elements that occurs during the metamorphism of rocks. The equipment will be housed at Indiana University. The computing system will be used to interactively simulate water-rock interactions. Reaction and transport equations incorporating the stress and interfacial energy dependence of equilibrium constants will be simulated to predict the formation of layering and other forms of self organization found in metamorphic rocks.