These new capabilities have application in such areas as automobile manufacture, aerospace vehicle design, and medicine. Grid techniques and discretization methods appear especially promising. Within these topics, problem sizes vary widely.
Computations involving controls are insignificant.
Problems involving structures may involve degrees of freedom and require up to 1 gigabyte of memory for direct solution. For most of these problems, researchers use grid techniques or discretization. These approaches have resulted in notable success, on a wide variety of high-performance computer systems. The national Tokamak project includes General Atomics and Microelectronics Computer Corporation. The computational fluid dynamics and combustion project is working with burner companies on the design of software for burner simulation.