Rheology and Mythology: 25 Years of Computer Simulation

摘要

2009 marks the 25' anniversary of the appearance of the first mesoscopic simulations in the field of "computational rheology". Professor Les Woodcock, author of one of those early papers in 1984, offers a personal reflection, and asks "why have the computational science research community, in a field that promises so much, 25 years on, delivered so little?".