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2016

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

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Acceleration Of Ddscat Computation By Parallelization On A Supercomputer, Manoj V. Seeram May 2016

Acceleration Of Ddscat Computation By Parallelization On A Supercomputer, Manoj V. Seeram

Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

The DDSCAT software is enabled for use of MPI or OpenMP to distribute calculation of different particle orientations amongst multiple processors on a high performance system. Run times for these simulations have been tested to take hours or days however and simulating varying orientations is not always necessary. If a simulation with only one particle orientation is submitted, DDSCAT could still potentially parallelize the simulation by wavelength calculations but it is unknown if this is the case. In this paper, we will be (i) quantifying the reduction in computation time that MPI provides relative to an equivalent MPI disabled simulation …


Nanoscale Frictional Properties Of Nickel With One-Dimensional And Two-Dimensional Materials, Timothy K. Schlenger May 2016

Nanoscale Frictional Properties Of Nickel With One-Dimensional And Two-Dimensional Materials, Timothy K. Schlenger

Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

When looking at the nanoscale, material interface interactions have been observed to exhibit particularly interesting properties. Our research looks into various combinations of carbyne and graphene atop a nickel block to look into the interface friction properties between them. Both the carbyne and graphene are tested using steered molecular dynamics (SMD) in sheering and peeling directions along the surface of the nickel block. These tests are then analyzed by comparing the magnitude of the acting force versus the displacement of the carbon allotrope sample across the nickel block. It is found that as the width of a carbon allotrope sample …