I was surprised to find out that material science uses up a significant amount of the compute time on the big research machines, at least here in the UK. It's b

I was surprised to find out that material science uses up a significant amount of the compute time on the big research machines, at least here in the UK. It's both potentially lucrative research and computationally intensive. Combustion is the other big one that hasn't been mentioned but that's... Controversial.