CDI-EAGER: Manufacturing Modeling Simulation and Data Analysis (MSAD) Small Business Case Study

制造业竞争力是美国的关键国家利益，可以从高性能计算(HPC)和相关网络基础设施(CI)支持的先进虚拟样机中受益匪浅。制造建模、仿真和数据分析发现(MSAD)计划的愿景是通过与行业的互动来推动计算科学和CI研究。MSAD计划通过两个不同但相关的活动来解决这个问题。第一个活动是研究转移，即研究在将计算科学研究应用于工业问题时出现的问题。第二项活动是挑战创造，确定其解决方案将支持工业竞争力的研究领域(如并行求解器和CI技术)。我们通过与俄亥俄州扬斯敦的一家中型制造商合作，从小公司的角度研究这些问题。我们研究了在创建金属-陶瓷复合材料建模应用程序时出现的问题。这一应用将模拟固体/流体界面上的置换化学反应，其中牺牲的氧化物被熔融的金属还原，随后形成陶瓷/金属复合材料。应用程序将托管在利用后端HPC资源的CI环境中，并将针对HPC执行进行优化。该项目的好处将是(1)改进用于防弹衣和制动系统等产品的高性能轻质材料的建模工具，(2)改进用于部署行业建模和仿真工具的网络基础设施工具，(3)确定金属陶瓷材料建模方面的技术转让活动和研究挑战。这类活动对中小型公司的竞争力至关重要，并在国家经济复苏中发挥关键作用。

Manufacturing competitiveness is a critical U.S. national interest that can benefit greatly from advanced virtual prototyping supported by high-performance computing (HPC) and related cyberinfrastructure (CI). The vision of the Manufacturing Modeling, Simulation and Data Analysis Discovery (MSAD) Program is to spur computational science and CI research through interaction with industry. The MSAD program approaches this issue through two distinct, but related, activities. The first activity is research transfer, the study of the issues that arise when applying computational science research to industrial problems. The second activity is challenge creation, the identification of research areas (such as parallel solvers and CI technologies) whose solutions will support industrial competitiveness. We study these issues from a small company perspective by collaborating with a medium-sized manufacturer in Youngstown, Ohio. We examine issues that arise in the creation of a modeling application for metal-ceramic composite materials. This application will model the displacement chemical reactions at the solid/fluid interface, in which sacrificial oxides are reduced by a molten metal and subsequently form a ceramic/metal composite. The application will be hosted in a CI environment leveraging back-end HPC resources and will be optimized for HPC execution. The benefits of the project will be (1) improved modeling tools for high performance light weight materials for products such as body armor and braking systems, (2) improved cyberinfrastructure tools for deploying industry modeling and simulation tools, (3) the identification of the technical transfer activities and research challenges in modeling metal-ceramic materials. Activities such as these are critical for the competitiveness of small to medium sized companies and play a key role in the national economic recovery.