Computational materials science: The emergence of predictive capabilities of material behaviour

Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 815-831

  Kumar, Vijay ^a,b  

^a Dr Vijay Kumar Foundation ^*  (India)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Density function; Materials design; Nanomaterials

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE; MATERIALS DESIGN; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

MATERIALS SCIENCE;

EID: 0242403097     PISSN: 02562499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02706461     Document Type: Article

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