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Surprising Nanophotonic Phenomena in Nature
11 Jul 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Peter Bermel
A broad range of optical phenomena in nature have created long-standing mysteries. For example, what gives butterflies and birds their rich colors? And how can sightings of some unusual natural phenomena like mirages or ball lightning be explained? The process of solving these mysteries has...
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OOMMF FTUG: Object Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework First Time User's Guide
24 Mar 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Tanya Faltens
*** This OOMMF FTUG updated on 5/25/2020 to include information about the newly included text editor and accessing files using sftp *** OOMMF is the Object Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework, which is a powerful research-grade simulation tool for modeling the response of materials to applied...
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Exploring Materials Properties with Nanomaterial Mechanics Explorer Structure Files
24 Mar 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Tanya Faltens
This document describes how to generate and download simulation output files from the Nanomaterial Mechanics Explorer on nanoHUB and view them locally using OVITO. This can be particularly useful for more advanced manipulations of the trajectory files, and for sharing files with others, such...
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Nanomechanics Simulation Tool: Dislocations Make or Break Materials
16 Mar 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Michael N Sakano
The goal of computational material science is to improve existing materials and design new ones through mathematical calculations. In particular, molecular dynamic simulations can allow for visualization of dislocations in a material, along with its resulting behavior when under stress. For...
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nanoHUB Used in Research: A One Developer/User View
18 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska
In this presentation I will give overview of selected nanoHUB tools and their potential for performing state- of-the-art research. The tools selected for this purpose include SCHRED, QuaMC2D, and OMEN nanowire/ NEMO5. ...
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Geometric Multigrid for MHD Simulations with Nedelec Finite Elements on Tetrahedral Grids
04 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Chris Hansen
The Magneto-HydroDynamic (MHD) model is used extensively to simulate macroscopic plasma dynamics in Magnetic Confinement Fusion (MCF) devices. In these simulations, the span of time scales from fast wave dynamics to the desired evolution of equilibrium due to transport processes is large,...
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A Massively Parallel Semicoarsening Multigrid for 3D Reservoir Simulation on Multi-core and Multi-GPU Architectures
04 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Abdulrahman Manea
In this work, we have designed and implemented a massively parallel version of the Semicoarsening Black Box Multigrid Solver [1], which is capable of handling highly heterogeneous and anisotropic 3D reservoirs, on a parallel architecture with multiple GPU’s. For comparison purposes, the...
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nanoHUB: Cloud Scientific Computing in Materials Education and Research
22 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Alejandro Strachan
nanoHUB’s cyber-infrastructure empowers simulation tool developers to make their codes universally accessible and useful via cloud computing and empowers users who can run hundreds of tools using a web-browser or tablet, free of charge, and without the need to download or install any...
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OOMMF: Object Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework
21 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Michael Joseph Donahue, Donald Gene Porter
A portable, extensible public domain program and associated tools for micromagnetic simulation
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nanoHUB: Not Just for PhDs
20 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Deb Newberry, Nano-Link Center for Nanotechnology Education
In 2004, Dakota County Technical College started a 2 year, AAS degree Nanoscience Technician program. This program has always involved an aspect of computer simulations, both in a specific Computer Simulation class and as a part of several other classes such as the nanoelectronics and materials...
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A UCSD analytic TFET model
18 Dec 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Jianzhi Wu, Yuan Taur
A continuous, analytic I-V model is developed for double-gate and nanowire tunnel FETs with 3D density of states, including depletion in the source. At the core of the model is a gate-controlled channel potential that satisfies the source and drain boundary conditions. Verified by...
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Photovoltaics QCRF-FDTD Simulator
15 Oct 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Jacob R Duritsch, Haejun Chung, Peter Bermel
Simulates optical and electrical behaviors of photovoltaic cells using a FDTD simulation method and QCRF material modeling.
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Framework for Evaluating Simulations: Analysis of Student Developed Interactive Computer Tool
23 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Heidi A Diefes-Dux, Yi Kong, Krishna Madhavan
This is the presentation for a paper presented at the 2015 annual American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) conference. The paper discusses a developed framework for evaluating and scaffolding student-developed simulations in an open-ended learning environment. The full paper...
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Atomistic Simulations of Materials Chemistry: From Nanoelectronics to Energetics
06 Apr 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Alejandro Strachan
Presentation slides with embedded videos are available for download. Please see the Support Docs tab.
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HUBzero: A Platform for Scientific Research, Education, and Collaboration
11 Mar 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Michael McLennan
HUBzero® is an open source software platform used to build web sites for collaboration in an academic setting. HUBzero supports data management, computation, and the natural synergy between education and research. This talk gives an overview of the platform, showing how it...
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Uso de simulaciones en investigación y educación en ciencia e ingeniería
16 Mar 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Alejandro Strachan
En una colaboración entre la Escuela de Ingeniería de EAFIT, el Centro de Computación Científica Apolo y Proyecto 50, recibimos a Alejandro Strachan, profesor de la Universidad de Purdue, quien nos dio la oportunidad de reflexionar sobre qué es una...
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Mathematical Models and Simulations Workshop Presentation
09 Mar 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Heidi A Diefes-Dux, Krishna Madhavan, Yi Kong
Developing engineers for a changing world presents a greater need for students to understand simulations. Understanding mathematical models and simulations are skills that all engineers need for industry and research, but many engineering students lack a conceptual understanding of how to develop...
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LAMMPS
27 Mar 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Benjamin P Haley
Run LAMMPS by uploading a data file and command script.
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2/3-Diode Fit
15 Jun 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Stephan Suckow
This download provides the program "2/3-Diode Fit", which can be used to interactively simulate or fit I-V characteristics of solar cells using different 2- or 3-diode models. Diff erent file formats and batch processing are supported as well as di fferent modes: dark or illuminated I-V...
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Sentaurus Resources for Frozen Potential Analysis of Solar Cells
26 Sep 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Jim Moore
Two Sentaurus simulation examples demonstrating injection and photocurrent separation using frozen potentials. Includes an example for a simple p-i-n cell and a CIGS/CdS heterojunction cell, as well as Matlab scripts for plotting the results. Documentation is included in the form of the...