TCBG Seminar
Multiscale Simulations Using Particles Tweet
Professor
Petros Koumoutsakos
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
Thursday, March 2, 2006
2:00 pm (CT)
5269 Beckman Institute
Abstract
The simulation of the motion of interacting particles is a deceivingly simple, yet powerful and natural, method for exploring physical systems as diverse as planetary dark matter and proteins, unsteady separated flows, and plasmas. Particle simulations of continuum and molecular phenomena can be formulated by following the motion of interacting particles that carry the physical properties of the flow. In this talk we discuss particle methods with an emphasis on their use for multiscale simulations. We present multiresolution particle methods for continuum systems, with an emphasis on fluid mechanics applications, as well as hybrid molecular-continuum simulations for flows past carbon nanotubes.