Factorisation resolves computational bottlenecks in predicting wave interactions

Members of the EffectFact consortium

The EffectFact project, led by Professor Gennady Mishuris, ran from 2021 to 2026, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie stream of the EU's Horizon 2020 scheme. A new Results in Brief article published on the CORDIS website summarises the results of the project.

"Whether tracking an earthquake’s shockwave through the Earth or tracing the forces pulling apart a DNA strand, energy encounters complex real-world boundaries." To accurately predict the dynamics of such processes, there is a necessary but difficult step: the factorisation of a matrix into a product or sum of simpler matrices. The resulting software package, ExactMPF, which Prof Mishuris developed with PhD student Nataliia Adukova, provides a stable platform to perform the factorisation.

The EffectFact partners used ExactMPF to investigate crack propagation and material failure, and wave propagation in metamaterials.

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