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Model-based prognosis for intergranular corrosion
Among the advantages of Aluminium-based alloys for structural use is their corrosion resistance. However, while Aluminium alloys are highly resistant to uniform (general) corrosion, they are much more susceptible to types of localised corrosion, especially intergranular corrosion, which is a localised attack along the grain boundaries which leaves the grains themselves largely unaffected. In order to estimate the progress of such corrosion in a given sample, it is considered possible to generate a numerical model of some sort. While there has been much effort spent in the development of electrochemistry-based models, the use of grey and black-box models remains largely unexplored. One exception to this is the use of Cellular Automata (CA) models which have recently been exploited to model the progression of uniform corrosion. The object of the current paper is to apply the CA methodology to the case of intergranular corrosion. The first phase of the work has been concerned with generating appropriate CA rules which can qualitatively reproduce observed physics, and this work is reported here. A model is proposed which shows qualitative agreement with experimental data on the advance of the corrosion front
Multi-level agent-based modeling - A literature survey
During last decade, multi-level agent-based modeling has received significant
and dramatically increasing interest. In this article we present a
comprehensive and structured review of literature on the subject. We present
the main theoretical contributions and application domains of this concept,
with an emphasis on social, flow, biological and biomedical models.Comment: v2. Ref 102 added. v3-4 Many refs and text added v5-6 bibliographic
statistics updated. v7 Change of the name of the paper to reflect what it
became, many refs and text added, bibliographic statistics update
Multi-level agent-based modeling with the Influence Reaction principle
This paper deals with the specification and the implementation of multi-level
agent-based models, using a formal model, IRM4MLS (an Influence Reaction Model
for Multi-Level Simulation), based on the Influence Reaction principle.
Proposed examples illustrate forms of top-down control in (multi-level)
multi-agent based-simulations
Steering in computational science: mesoscale modelling and simulation
This paper outlines the benefits of computational steering for high
performance computing applications. Lattice-Boltzmann mesoscale fluid
simulations of binary and ternary amphiphilic fluids in two and three
dimensions are used to illustrate the substantial improvements which
computational steering offers in terms of resource efficiency and time to
discover new physics. We discuss details of our current steering
implementations and describe their future outlook with the advent of
computational grids.Comment: 40 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Contemporary
Physic
Lattice Gas Automata for Reactive Systems
Reactive lattice gas automata provide a microscopic approachto the dynamics
of spatially-distributed reacting systems. After introducing the subject within
the wider framework of lattice gas automata (LGA) as a microscopic approach to
the phenomenology of macroscopic systems, we describe the reactive LGA in terms
of a simple physical picture to show how an automaton can be constructed to
capture the essentials of a reactive molecular dynamics scheme. The statistical
mechanical theory of the automaton is then developed for diffusive transport
and for reactive processes, and a general algorithm is presented for reactive
LGA. The method is illustrated by considering applications to bistable and
excitable media, oscillatory behavior in reactive systems, chemical chaos and
pattern formation triggered by Turing bifurcations. The reactive lattice gas
scheme is contrasted with related cellular automaton methods and the paper
concludes with a discussion of future perspectives.Comment: to appear in PHYSICS REPORTS, 81 revtex pages; uuencoded gziped
postscript file; figures available from [email protected] or
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