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Computational Investigations of Streamers: From Input Cross Sections to Evolution of Plasma Species

Technology grant awarded to optimize plasma-assisted combustion

Incomplete combustion in engines and central heating systems can generate toxic exhaust gases. An electric discharge or plasma can preprocess the mixture of ...

Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather book published

Recently, the book 'Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather', edited by CWI researcher Enrico Camporeale and others, was published by Elsevier. The book ...

Afivo, short for Adaptive Finite Volume Octree, is a framework for adaptive mesh refinement on quadtree (2D) and octree (3D) meshes with shared memory ...

Nature: AI for understanding extreme physics

Researchers of the University of Oxford, CWI and other organizations published a paper in Nature reviewing the use of artificial intelligence and machine ...

Hoera! Een nieuwe nationale supercomputer: Snellius

Op donderdag 16 september verrichtte Koningin Máxima de officiële opening van de nieuwe nationale supercomputer Snellius. CWI-onderzoekers rekenen al sinds ...

CWI group leader Ute Ebert on Focus TV

Ute Ebert, group leader of CWI’s Multiscale Dynamics group, appeared on national TV in the NTR science television programme Focus, where she explained which ...

Radio telescope LOFAR shows how lightning grows

Dutch radio telescope LOFAR can observe the creation of lightning flashes at an unprecedented one-metre resolution, which may lead to better lightning ...

LOFAR brengt groei bliksemflitsen in beeld

De Nederlandse radiotelescoop LOFAR kan voor het eerst het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van bliksemflitsen tot op details van ongeveer een meter volgen, wat ...

Efficient models for high voltage switching

In the search for better environmentally friendly high-voltage switches, it is important to understand electrical breakdowns in various media. PhD student ...