Physics

The physical world is governed by laws describing how matter and energy interact at scales ranging from the smallest particles to the entire universe. Physicists are using the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s enormous computing power to reveal the nature of matter at its most elusive—from the behavior of the quarks, electrons, and other fundamental particles that make up atoms and everything we know, to the workings of the molecules made up of those atoms.

High-Fidelity Simulation of Tokamak Edge Plasma Transport

Principal Investigator: C.S. Chang, Princeton Physics Plasma Laboratory
Titan: 100,000,000 hours

Lattice QCD

Principal Investigator: Paul Mackenzie, Fermilab
Jaguar: 140,000,000 hours

Magnetic Reconnection in High-Energy-Density Laser-Produced Plasmas

Principal Investigator: Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of New Hampshire
Jaguar: 14,000,000 hours

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions

Principal Investigator: James Vary, Iowa State University
Jaguar: 74,000,000 hours

Petascale Simulations of Type 1a Supernovae

Principal Investigator: Stan Woosley,, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jaguar: 55,000,000 hours

Simulating Reionization of the Local Universe: Witnessing Our Own Cosmic Dawn

Principal Investigator: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas
Titan: 40,000,000 hours

Three Dimensional Simulations for Core Collapse Supernovae

Principal Investigator: Anthony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jaguar: 35,000,000 hours

Transformative Advances In Plasma-Based Acceleration

Principal Investigator: Warren Mori, University of California, Los Angeles
Jaguar: 30,000,000 hours

Unraveling the Physics of Magnetic Reconnection with 3D Kinetic Simulations

Principal Investigator: William Daughton, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jaguar: 37,000,000 hours

Physics Projects