Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) newsletter
An Introduction to Computational Multiphysics II
March 10, 2009; 9:30am
60 Oxford Street, Room 311 [Location details]
Sauro Succi, Visiting Scholar, Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard, Harvard University (National Research Council, Roma, Italy)
Abstract
In a previous series of lectures, Visiting Scholar Sauro Succi discussed the main motivations behind the development of multiscale/physics modeling as a response to the interdisciplinary challenges raised by complex systems in modern science and engineering. This second series will describe the basic mathematical framework of modern multiscale/physics methods and illustrate their application to a selection of edge-cutting problems at the fast-growing interface between fluid dynamics, biology and material science, such as multiphase flows in micro/nano-channels, hydrodynamic turbulence, cardiovascular hemodynamics and crack propagation in solids.
| Lecture Plan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part I: Theoretical Background: | ||||
| March 10, 9:30-11:30 a.m. | Lecture 1-2: | Mathematical formulation of multiscale/physics problems | ||
| March 11, 9:30-11:30 a.m. | Lecture 3-4: | Metadynamics techniques | ||
| Part II: Examples/Applications | ||||
| March 12, 9:30-11:30 a.m. | Lecture 5-6: | Microfluidics and turbulence | ||
| March 13, 9:30 a.m. | Lecture 7: | Multiscale Hemodynamics | ||
| March 13, 10:30 a.m. | Lecture 8: | Fracture dynamics | ||
Note: Lectures on March 10, 12 and 13 will be held at 60 Oxford Street, Room 311. The lecture on March 11 will be held at 60 Oxford, Room 330.
Bio
Sauro Succi serves as a Research Director at the Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo of the National Research Council, Rome (1995-), and he is a Research Affiliate to the Physics Department at Harvard University (2000-). Succi earned a degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Bologna and a PhD in plasma physics from the Swiss Polytechnic Institute in Lausanne (1987). He held a Euratom fellowship at Max-Planck Institut for Plasma Physics (1981) and a senior scientist position at the IBM European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing, in Rome (1986-95).
Dr Succi's research covers a broad range of topics associated with the computational modeling of complex system dynamics, with special focus on classical and quantum flows at all scales. He has published extensively in plasma physics, classical and quantum fluid dynamics, kinetic theory and computational physics. He is also the author of the monograph The Lattice Boltzmann Equation for fluid dynamics and beyond, Oxford University Press, 2001. He has been holding visiting appointments at the University of Paris VI (1993), Chicago (1995), Yale (1999), Scuola Normale di Pisa (1998-2006), Queen Mary College of London (2005), Tufts University (2006-) and the Initiative on Innovative Computing at Harvard (2008-). Succi is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1998), and he is the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Award in physics (2002), the Killam Award of the University of Calgary (2005) and the Distinguished Annual Lecture at the University of Leicester (2006).