UK Consortium on Mesoscale Engineering Sciences (UKCOMES)

UKCOMES解决介于原子尺度和宏观尺度之间的中尺度的科学和工程问题。例如，在各种物理、化学、生物、生物医学、材料、制药和工程现象和过程中，这种问题无处不在。中尺度工程科学是真正的跨学科和交叉学科，将工程界和科学研究界联系在一起。UKCOMES汇集了所有必要的专业知识，以做出关键的理论发现，并将这些新概念转化为能够利用当前和未来高端计算(HEC)发展的软件。建模和仿真方法基于非连续或离散方法，包括格子Boltzmann方法(LBM)、耗散粒子动力学(DPD)、光滑粒子流体动力学(SPH)和粗粒分子动力学(CG-MD)。UKCOMES由EPSRC资助(批准号：EP/L00030X/1，01/06/2013-31/05/2018)。它还获得了EPSRC计算科学和工程软件旗舰项目调用(EP/P022243/1，06/2017-05/2020，HiLeMMS，GB 513,863)的奖项。扩大后的UKCOMES将利用其成功引领世界研究领域，并提供学术和最终用户影响。

UKCOMES addresses scientific and engineering problems at mesoscales which lie between atomistic and macroscales. Such problems are ubiquitous in, for example, a wide variety of physical, chemical, biological, biomedical, material, pharmaceutical and engineering phenomena and processes. Mesoscale engineering sciences are truly interdisciplinary and cross-cutting, uniting the engineering and science research communities. UKCOMES brings together all the required expertise to make critical theoretical discoveries and translate these new concepts into software that is able to exploit today's and future high-end computing (HEC) developments. The modelling and simulation methodologies are based on non-continuum or discrete approaches, including lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CG-MD). UKCOMES has been funded by the EPSRC (Grant No. EP/L00030X/1, 01/06/2013 - 31/05/2018) for HEC resources. It has also won an award under the EPSRC Computational Science and Engineering Software Flagship Project Call (EP/P022243/1, 06/2017 - 05/2020, HiLeMMS, £513,863). The expanded UKCOMES will capitalize on its successes to lead the research field in the world and to deliver both academic and end-user impact.