Advancements in Modelling and Characterisation

This Focus Area stands for everything that has to do with the capabilities of materials models and the modelling workflows. It covers the development and validation of models and workflows as well as their application to challenging problems of industrial relevance in a range of domains. Computer simulation, data generation and materials characterisation all belong here.

This Focus Area thus embraces materials modellers and others interested in …

• Materials modelling applications for industry-relevant complex problems
• The quality of available models and workflows.
• The development or enhancement of models and workflows.

Physics-based and data-driven (AI/ML) techniques both have a firm place in this focus area. Models and methods involved are …

• Models from the electronic and atomistic scales up to the continuum world, and the coupling & linking of them, i.e. multiscale modelling.
• Modelling to assist experimental characterisation.
• Modelling to describe-understand-predict materials properties and processes.
• And more…