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Anthropogenic influences and natural processes can have long lasting effects on the health of the subsurface environment. Subsurface water is heavily affected by changes in the environment and its quality is regarded as a powerful metric for evaluating the health of the subsurface environment. Therefore, constant monitoring of groundwater quality to identify influences over the seasonal hydrologic ...

Problem Statement: High Performance Computing technology has advanced significantly, and advanced parallel computers are being built, with DOE leadership. Yet, the American engineering and manufacturing industry has not started leveraging parallel computing at a significant level, partly because of the challenging nature of modern simulation software. US competitiveness in manufacturing may suffer ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to reduced the incidence of insider cyber-enabled crime and insider cyber-related espionage on HPC systems. With the rapid increase in cyber-crime, it is imperative for the DOE and government agencies invest more in security to protect vital data and assets. While it is still necessary for ...

Problem Being Addressed: The lack of availability, usability, and the cost of development, own- ership, and operation of high performance computation-ready simulation capabilities. These are significant barriers to utilization of modeling & simulation for the American industry; most open- source, free technologies are difficult to use and/or have not been validated to the extent needed for industr ...

United States competitiveness will benefit from increasing the speed of delivery of new material and molecular systems for clean energy by enabling predictive modeling & simulation-based design of such systems prior to synthesis. These computational predictive capabilities are also important in the areas of atomic and molecular physics, chemistry and chemical biology, coherent control of chemical ...

At supercritical conditions, CO2 behaves in very complex ways. As a result, there is a lack of confidence in existing computational fluid dynamics approaches to simulating flows of supercritical CO2. Current models were developed for other physical simulations and either do not include the correct physics or are not validated for CO2 flows in the supercritical regime. As supercritical CO2 is incre ...

Science and research funded and performed by the Department of Energy relies significantly on the modeling and simulations that High Performance Computing systems provide. Research performed on these systems can include energy, climate modeling, nuclear weapons and other government funded research by other agencies. Research missions go beyond local agency use and HPC platforms within Department o ...

Software protection and its associated tools can be regarded as a first line of defense for run-time integrity in an HPC system, but cannot be easily extended to provide security solution beyond the software level. Hence, it is also essential to build a system- wide security analysis tool to assess the entire HPC system’s security. By revealing the risks the system has to an adversary, and impro ...

Electric vehicles are creating unprecedented demand for lithium. Most lithium is produced from brine resources. Conventional methods for extracting lithium from brines suffer from low lithium recovery and cannot access the expanded resources needed for mass adoption of electric vehicles. The Department of Energy has supported a great variety of projects relate ...

As legislation continues to tighten regulations on emissions for coal-fired power plants, new technologies and control strategies are required. Mercury and other coal contaminants are of interest due to the cost associated with capture and disposal of toxic mercury species. More recently, the Fossil Energy program at DOE has identified spouted bed systems for thermal desorption of mercury as a via ...