(556a) History of the IFPSC and Description of the 7th Challenge

The Industrial Fluid Properties Simulation Challenge is an open competition organized by the Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (CoMSEF) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the American Chemical Society (ACS), Army Research Lab, Case Scientific, National Institute of Standards and Technology, DuPont, ExxonMobil, The Dow Chemical Company, 3M, and Wittenberg University. The goals of the competition are to drive improvements in the practice of molecular modeling, formalize methods for the evaluation and validation of simulation results with experimental data, and ensure relevance of simulation activities to industrial requirements.  

This talk will provide an overview of the history of the IFPSC and a description of the current challenge problem.