Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Computational Multiphysics Lecture Series
March 13, 14, 17, 18, 2008; 9:00am - 11:00am
Lyman Lab, Room 425, Harvard Campus
Space is limited. Please RSVP to helene_tingle(a)harvard.edu.
Sauro Succi, Visiting Scholar, Initiative in Innovative Computing at
Harvard & Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo, National Research Council,
Roma, Italy
Seminar Title:
An Introduction to Computational Multiphysics
Abstract:
Modern science is increasingly faced with problems of ever greater
complexity, straddling across the traditional disciplinary boundaries
between physics, chemistry, material science and biology.
Computational science is responding to this challenge with a stead-
fast development of innovative modeling techniques, designed in such
a way as to offer an optimal handling of the information transfer
procedures connecting the different scales/levels involved in the
quantitative description of the aforementioned complex phenomena.
This entails the seamless coupling between different mathematical
representations of various physical phenomena at widely disparate
scales, from continuum fields to probability distribution functions
and atomistic trajectories, all the way down to many-body quantum
wave functions. In this series of lectures, we shall provide an
introduction to the basic ideas behind these triple-M (multiscale/
multiphysics/multilevel) techniques, together with the illustration
of a few practical examples, drawn from concrete applications in
leading areas of multiphysics research, such as micro/nanofluidics,
turbulence and material science.
Lectures:
Part I: Theoretical Background
March 13, 2008; 9:00am—11:00am
Lecture 1: Motivations for Triple-M (Multi-scale/physics/level) Modeling
Lecture 2: Basic Notions of Computational Multi-physics
March 14, 2008; 9:00am—11:00am
Lecture 3: Multiscale methods: mathematical formulation
Lecture 4: Multiscale methods: computational procedure
Part II: Selected Applications
March 17, 2008; 9:00am—11:00am
Lecture 5: Microfluidics, the moving contact line problem
Lecture 6: Nanofluidics, biopolymer translocation through nanopores
March 18, 2008; 9:00am—11:00am
Lecture 7: Boltzmann approach to turbulence modeling
Lecture 8: Macro-Atomistic-Ab initio-Dynamics approach to fracture
dynamics
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