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by flukus 3574 days ago
How much of that trial and error can be skipped with modern computer simulations?
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In the field of materials and fabrication? Not that much. Fundamentally, the problem is that for many of the problems that we consider interesting in materials or fabrication, meaningful analogs to say.. the Navier Stokes equations don't even exist.

In the field of fluid and thermodynamics? Probably quite a bit. This is why I tried to emphasize the materials and fabrication bit.

Things like metallurgy & fluid dynamics are notoriously difficult to simulate; this combines them in exciting ways.