Sentences with phrase «on modeling the physics»

«Aside from this technological solution, we are working on modeling the physics behind the process.

William Ingram works 50 % for climateprediction.net and 50 % for the Met Office Hadley Centre and is climateprediction.net's expert on the model physics.

So, while the environment that produces precipitation is affected by the observational analysis, precipitation relies on the model physics, and has significant uncertainty.

William Ingram works 50 % for climateprediction.net and 50 % for the Met Office Hadley Centre and is climateprediction.net's expert on the model physics.

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Though the physics are complicated and intricate, the carmaker said that compared to the previous cars, they have improved downforce coefficient of this model by 23 %, increasing 75 % on the road.

At Tesla, Elon has overseen product development and design from the beginning, including the all electric Tesla Roadster, Model S and Model X. Transitioning to a sustainable energy economy, in which electric vehicles play a pivotal role, has been one of his central interests for almost two decades, stemming from his time as a physics student working on ultracapacitors in Silicon Valley.

For more than a century now economics has been advanced and practiced as a science, on the model of physics and mathematics.

This economic thought models itself on the physics of the nineteenth century.

The completion of the Particle Physics Standard Model hinges on that.

A process model is a relational model, drawing on the data of physics and biology, maintaining that we do indeed live in an interconnected universe where everything relates to everything else.

Within the field of modern science, Thomas also distinguishes between the sciences based on mathematical models which are constructed from empirical data, e.g. mathematical physics, and the «empirio - schematic» sciences which are not highly mathematical, e.g. anatomy.

The dominant model of knowledge today is that knowledge can be divided into compartments called disciplines such as physics, economics and so on.

Cochranes — This site has a range of hands - on science kits and teaching apparatus for chemistry and DNA structure (molecular modelling kits), physics, astronomy and mathematics.

The complex physics behind these explosions is difficult to model, even with state - of - the - art simulations run on some of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

Simulations of gas flows on large scales, as well as the physics of small - scale processes, support this model for DCBH formation.

Climate models are complex numerical models based on physics that amount to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lines of computer code to model Earth's past, present and future.

«These new insights open up a whole new perspective on the Mott metal - insulator transition and permit more sophisticated theoretical modelling of the phase transition,» explains Dr. Markus Garst, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of Technische Universität Dresden.

Karl Gebhardt at the University of Texas at Austin and Thomas Jens of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, weighed M87 by running existing data through a new model that simulates the galaxy on a supercomputer.

I was in the Galápagos to attend the World Summit on Physics, a four - day conference on theories that go beyond the «standard model» of particles and forces.

Unlike his early work on esoteric physics, he adds with a laugh, «it gave me a feeling for how mathematical modeling relates to the real world.»

But Manuel Hohmann at the University of Tartu in Estonia has been working on an alternative called multimetric gravity, which involves copies of the standard model of particle physics that each have slightly different properties.

The project is modeled on CERN, the Swiss high - energy physics lab formed after World War II to restore Europe's tradition of scientific learning.

The study, published in Nature Scientific Reports, coincides with another publication on the same subject but based on other mathematical models, published in Nature Physics in December.

«Astronomers observe exploding stars and astrophysicists model them on supercomputers,» said Wrede, assistant professor of physics at MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.

If it turns out to be consistent with the Standard Model, it is further evidence of its accuracy and can be used to put stringent constraints on models of new physics.

Instead, when the neutrino results emerged, theorists rushed to propose addenda, including grand visions of new forces and extra dimensions, that could account for the Opera findings and keep relativity intact — much as relativity elaborated on Isaac Newton's model of physics but did not invalidate it.

«Brain on a chip» reveals how the brain folds: Physics and biology meet in a new model of brain development.»

The manual for his new C3 Picasso informs him that the traction control featured in this model «keeps the vehicle on the trajectory required by the driver, within the limits of the laws of physics».

While he was working on his Ph.D. at Georgia Tech, members of the faculty encouraged him to develop another specialty tangentially related to physics, and he worked on scientific modeling.

To realize the potential of nanodiamonds in the delivery of biomolecules using tRNA as a model, the team turned to Titan to shed a much - needed light on the underlying physics.

Yet completing the Standard Model hardly closes the book on particle physics.

(Although climate models have critics, they reflect our best ability to describe how the climate system works, based on physics, chemistry and biology.

After years of watching engineers model traffic flow with advanced physics to alleviate jams, a team of urban planners called Shared Space have adopted a simple solution based on a zoological concept known as the risk compensation effect.

«Physics may bring faster solutions for tough computational problems: A physics - inspired model takes on computational challenges from a new perspective.Physics may bring faster solutions for tough computational problems: A physics - inspired model takes on computational challenges from a new perspective.physics - inspired model takes on computational challenges from a new perspective.»

The Standard Model of particle physics is at a pivotal moment in its history: it is both at the height of its success and on the verge of being surpassed

Active Physics, a course based on the textbook Six Ideas That Shaped Physics by Thomas A. Moore of Pomona College, has its roots in the 1980s when educators, dissatisfied with lecture courses, became interested models of instruction that require students to take more responsibility for their own learning.

In 1996 Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa of Harvard University were working on the mathematics of string theory, a physics model that describes all fundamental particles as vibrating strands of energy, when they realized that a key property of certain black holes can be predicted by string equations.

The model integrates classic physics and human anatomy to link the motion of individual runners to their patterns of force on the ground.

This week in the Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing, a group of investigators reports studies of the impact of secondary electrons on a model of DNA.

And when we understand the physics, we can develop better models to simulate and predict when and how ice will build up on cold days.»

In the final step in bacterial cell division, constriction of the so - called Z - ring, an annular structure that forms on the plasma membrane near the midpoint of the cell, gives rise to the two daughter cells: A research team led by Erwin Frey, who holds the Chair of Statistical and Biological Physics at LMU, has now used mathematical modelling to understand the mechanism that drives formation of the Z - ring, and in so doing have uncovered a novel class of pattern - forming mechanism in biological systems.

A new study published in the European Journal of Physics reports the findings of a research team at the University of Tsukuba that established a new computational modeling approach that provides precise 3D data on air flow, vortex formation, and lift around a skier's body.

Limited by the era's computers and understanding of physics, Wilson's model relied on simplifications — such as the star being a perfect sphere — and incorrect assumptions about the behavior of very dense matter and how neutrinos move from the core's interior to the crucial outer parts where the heating of the shock wave occurs.

The Fermi - Hubbard model was developed by Philip Anderson, Princeton's Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his work on theoretical investigations of electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.

In research published this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters, Dr Zoe Leinhardt and colleagues from Bristol's School of Physics have completed computer simulations of the early stages of planet formation around the binary stars using a sophisticated model that calculates the effect of gravity and physical collisions on and between one million planetary building blocks.

In the study entitled «The effect of giant lateral collapses on magma pathways and the location of volcanism,» authored by F. Maccaferri, N. Richter and T. Walter, all working at GFZ, in section 2.1 (Physics of earthquakes and volcanoes), the propagation path of magmatic intrusions underneath a volcanic edifice has been simulated by means of a mathematical model.

Their paper, published in Physics of Fluids, from AIP Publishing, provides a model for four stages of ice formation on aircraft wings.

To predict hail storms, or weather in general, scientists have developed mathematically based physics models of the atmosphere and the complex processes within, and computer codes that represent these physical processes on a grid consisting of millions of points.

As I find my seat on a balcony, I peer down at the balding heads of past laureates, a Who's Who of physics and a living history of the standard model, our best theory of the universe's particles and forces.

So profound is the connection that quants (quantitative analysts, often with backgrounds in physics or engineering) have flocked to Wall Street, creating elaborate models based on the way markets have moved in the past.