Schlumberger used CFD to design a testing program, ensuring it was as close to real well conditions as possible, and focused on the scenarios of most interest.

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

Think of the time such a program might save us for testing complex algorithms!