New facility devoted to multiscale modeling opens on Music Row
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering has established a unique research facility focusing on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. MuMS is home to four faculty members and their research groups.
An Open House and inaugural MuMS Seminar Oct. 9 will celebrate the recent creation of the space located on Nashville’s historic Music Row.
Multiscale modeling involves the synergistic use of computational methods applicable from the very small to the very large. It relies on state-fo-the-art software technology, much of which is developed in-house, according to Peter Cummings, director of MuMS.
“Research at MuMS spans many length and timescales, from detailed atomistic level simulations to large scale computational fluid dynamics modeling,” said Cummings, John R. Hall Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and founder of the Nanomaterials Theory Institute in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.