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Departmental Colloquium


Date: Thursday, Nov 30, 2023

Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Location: Online

Online only


Cory Hauck

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Title

Kinetic models of particle systems

Abstract

Kinetic models are used to simulate the collective behavior of particle systems. They provide a mesoscopic description that forms a link between continuum fluid models, which are not valid in non-equilibrium settings, and molecular dynamics models, which are often too expensive for practical purposes. In this talk, I will introduce the basic formalism of kinetic theory and present some relevant applications. I will then discuss some of the challenges of solving kinetic equations numerically, and present some of the tools being developed to address these challenges.

Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics

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