In this month's Science Highlights:
Software predicts complex turbulent reactive flows in engines

A new software toolkit, FEARCE (Fast, Easy, Accurate and Robust Continuum Engineering), predicts complex multi-species, multi-phase, turbulent, reactive flows in combustion engines. The software could be used as a tool in engine design to enhance fuel efficiency and reduce emissions. Read more.

Caption: A four-valve engine simulation shows fuel species mixing with air during the intake stroke. 

Current Science Highlights Issue: July 27, 2018

The latest issue of the Science Highlights is now online. This issue features awards, in addition to articles reporting on the following current science highlights:

• Carbon use efficiency diagnostics developed in algae
• New neptunium (III) compound isolated
• Studies examine climate processes affecting critical watersheds
• Melt-cast explosive material developed as a potential TNT replacement
• Multipoint satellite observations provide insight into the origins of substorms
• Novel exciton interactions observed in compositionally-defined bundles of carbon nanotubes
• Chemical vapor deposition methods improve molybdenum-based nuclear fuel cladding
• Synergistic methods improve materials fatigue life predictions
• Muon radiography verifies spent nuclear fuel in sealed casks
• Uric acid crystal study reveals the effect of water on mechanical properties
• Software predicts complex multi-species multi-phase turbulent reactive flows in engines

Read these articles and more in the July 27, 2018 issue.

About Science Highlights

Science Highlights features some of the current, cutting-edge scientific research at Los Alamos. The highlights also include recent awards and recognitions of Los Alamos scientists. Science Highlights is published once a month and produced by the Laboratory's Science, Technology, and Engineering directorate.