Digital simulations advanced methods

Many advances in digital simulation have taken place since the publication of the first edition. Some of these advances have occurred in hardware through the development of the personal computer. Others have taken place by the development of commercial software that will perform specific simulations or will create a computer environment (e.g., a spreadsheet) that will allow one to do simulations without having to write a computer program. Finally, there have been theoretical advances where newer implicit algorithms are used to solve the necessary partial differential equations more efficiently than is possible using the more intuitive explicit methods described herein. 

The advent of the personal computer has led to the rapid development of digital simulations in the field of electrochemistry. The motivation for these advances has been driven by many factors including the desire to gain quantitative insights from electroanalytical measurements, extract kinetic and mechanistic information regarding the pathways of electrolysis reactions, and assist in the design of new quantitative electrochemical methods. 

Using advances in computer reconstruction methods (see e.g. Kikkinides and Burganos, 2000 Torquato, 2001) and past experience with discrete particle deposit simulations (Konstandopoulos, 2000), we have developed algorithmic as well as process-based reconstruction techniques to generate three-dimensional (3D) digital materials that are faithful representations of DPF microstructures. We refer to this approach as DPF microflow simulation (MicroFlowS). MicroFlowS is thus a short name for a computational approach, which combines... 

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