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Innovation Incentive Initiative - Computation Science |
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Computational modeling forms a new and rapidly emerging paradigm for modern science and engineering, with enormous implications for technology and medicine. Computational approaches have resulted in fundamental discoveries in science and in applications for business, industry and medicine. Fundamental issues are being addressed in new materials, nanoscale devices, quantum computing, gene sequencing, biochemical reactions, molecular structures, and protein folding, in dynamic processes such as blood flow, and in modeling complex ecological systems and global climate change.
In a recent NSF panel review, it was suggested that in research and education in engineering, more emphasis must be placed on simulations, and the funding level for simulation related research at the NSF should be increased by $300M/year over the next ten years [T. Oden, et al., “Simulation-Based Engineering Science: Revolutionizing Engineering Science through Simulation”, Blue Ribbon Panel on Simulation-Based Engineering Science, The National Science Foundation, 2006].
The on-going importance of computational science to economic growth and competitiveness in Ohio is evident with an example. GE Aviation is the largest manufacturer of gas turbine engines in the world, and Ohio is the birthplace and center of aero-propulsion and power. GE Aviation’s engineering workforce designs most of their gas turbines in Ohio. Computational and mathematical modeling is a core aspect of gas turbine analysis and design. The Third Frontier has made significant investments in Computational Science through support of The Computational Medicine Center and the Advanced Data Management Program.
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