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Roadmap on multiscale materials modeling

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Peer-reviewed

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Authors

van der Giessen, Erik  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8369-2254
Bulatov, Vasily V 
Cai, Wei 

Abstract

Abstract: Modeling and simulation is transforming modern materials science, becoming an important tool for the discovery of new materials and material phenomena, for gaining insight into the processes that govern materials behavior, and, increasingly, for quantitative predictions that can be used as part of a design tool in full partnership with experimental synthesis and characterization. Modeling and simulation is the essential bridge from good science to good engineering, spanning from fundamental understanding of materials behavior to deliberate design of new materials technologies leveraging new properties and processes. This Roadmap presents a broad overview of the extensive impact computational modeling has had in materials science in the past few decades, and offers focused perspectives on where the path forward lies as this rapidly expanding field evolves to meet the challenges of the next few decades. The Roadmap offers perspectives on advances within disciplines as diverse as phase field methods to model mesoscale behavior and molecular dynamics methods to deduce the fundamental atomic-scale dynamical processes governing materials response, to the challenges involved in the interdisciplinary research that tackles complex materials problems where the governing phenomena span different scales of materials behavior requiring multiscale approaches. The shift from understanding fundamental materials behavior to development of quantitative approaches to explain and predict experimental observations requires advances in the methods and practice in simulations for reproducibility and reliability, and interacting with a computational ecosystem that integrates new theory development, innovative applications, and an increasingly integrated software and computational infrastructure that takes advantage of the increasingly powerful computational methods and computing hardware.

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Funder: FP7 Ideas: European Research Council; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/100011199; Grant(s): 339392

Keywords

Roadmap, modeling and simulation, materials science, multiscale materials modeling

Journal Title

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

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Journal ISSN

0965-0393
1361-651X

Volume Title

28

Publisher

IOP Publishing
Sponsorship
H2020 European Research Council (770754)
National Science Foundation (DMR-1408211, DMR-1408717, DMR-1834251, DMR-1834332)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K01739X/1, EP/P013503/1)
Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2016-135)
Seventh Framework Programme (513371, 632438)