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Published online 28 March 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020325-8
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Cool ice simulation
Computers finally catch up with freezing water.
Beneath the familiar business of water freezing to ice lies a process so complex it has taken Japanese researchers six years to make the first realistic computer simulation of it1.
Iwao Ohmine and his colleagues at Nagoya University pinned down water's capricious path from liquid to solid using a supercomputer.
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