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This talk discusses recent developments in the quest to model complex physical phenomena where multiple length and time scales need to be treated. In particular, materials modelling from the atomic-scale interactions to macroscopic continua is highlighted from the point of view of computational science. As a specific example, the case of three-dimensional etching of silicon-based microelectromechanical (MEM) components is presented. Moreover, the parallelisation of real-space-based methods for modelling nanostructures is discussed.
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Nieminen, R.M. (2002). Multi-physics and Multi-scale Modelling of Materials Processing. In: Fagerholm, J., Haataja, J., Järvinen, J., Lyly, M., Råback, P., Savolainen, V. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing. PARA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2367. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48051-X_6
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