Image Library - Computer Science

Argonne computer scientists run detailed local weather models on a large-scale testbed computer cluster. These images show two views of a 20-km-resolution simulation of the "Perfect Storm" that hit the North Atlantic in October 1991 and inspired a book and movie of the same name. The top figure depicts atmospheric moisture. The bottom figure shows rainfall and cloud water.

Nuclear engineers use advanced computing tools to predict fuel and coolant temperatures throughout the reactor's core during normal and abnormal conditions. This image shows the core of a pressurized water reactor. The colors illustrate temperature around the fuel pins shown as white circles.

Argonne Physicists Steven Pieper and Bob Wiringa use Argonne 's parallel supercomputers to calculate the forces that bind together nucleons – protons and neutrons – to form atomic nuclei. These images represent different angular momentum states of the deuteron, a two-body hydrogen nucleus comprising one proton and one neutron.