Integrated software systems for new process and materials design.
B.V. Potapkin (

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Kinetic Technologies, Kurchatov Sq. 1, 123182, Moscow, Russia.
The current needs of new process and materials design require development of a
new generation of integrated software tools. These tools should include
multi-scale models, staring from atomistic-scale models based on quantum
chemistry and molecular dynamics to mesoscale models based on Monte Carlo
methods and finally reactor scale continuum models. The integration of
different scale models in one software tool is needed to transfer data from
low-level model to upper level and back to achieve self-consistent
description. At each level of simulation the results are stored in databases
with universal data interface to provide data mining capabilities for the
models at the upper levels. Moreover databases of experimental kinetic and
thermodynamic data can be coupled with calculated data to complete information
for reactor models. Usually the reliability of the calculated results should
be checked with special tools for data analysis to investigate the dependence
of the results on the uncertainties in the model parameters and input data.
The current status in achieving these requirements for the simulating software
in the materials science is discussed together with recent progress in
atomistic scale modeling. In this work attention is paid to the integration of
quantum chemical calculations with reactor scale modeling, recovering of
kinetic data, generation and verification of kinetic mechanisms and to the
modeling of atomistic processes at the time scale of the reactor. Several
specific studies will be presented as examples of the applications of the new
software tools.