Special Session 120: 

Modelling Steel Grains using Optimal Transport Theory

David Bourne
Durham University
England
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Abstract:
The steel industry is entering a new era of virtual engineering, where expensive physical experiments are replaced by crystal plasticity simulations and computational homogenization to design and test new alloys. An important part of these simulations is the generation of realistic representative volume elements (RVEs) to model the grain structure of metals. In this talk I will describe a new approach to this problem using semi-discrete optimal transport theory.