Future of Computational Science: Center for Predictive Engineering and Computational Sciences

The Center for Predictive Engineering and Computational Science (PECOS) is a research center in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at the University of Texas at Austin. It is dedicated to the development and application of tools and techniques for making reliable computational predictions of complex systems. The challenge of making reliable predictions in such systems is that they typically involve multiple interacting physical phenomena acting at a wide variety of length and time scales. Computational models for such systems typically involve models of the the relevant phenomena with widely varying reliability and provenance, from empirical curve fits to well established fundamental theory. http://pecos.ices.utexas.edu