The Computational Design of Soft Flowing Materials

Center for Computational Science (CCS) Lunch Seminar

Sauro Succi, Visiting Professor in Computational Science, Institute for Computing Applications, Harvard University

When:
Thursday, November 21, 2019
11:45 am – 12:00 pm (lunch)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (talk)

Where:
Physics Research Building, Room PRB595, 3 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA

Abstract:
In this talk we willl present recent work on the mesoscale modeling of soft-flowing crystals, with special attention to the microfluidic design of novel families of mesoscale porous materials. In particular, we will focus on the effects of near-contact interactions on the overall structure and morphology of the porous materials for the case of specific microfluidic devices, such as flow-focusers, step-emulsifiers, and multi-emulsion systems.

Bio:
Sauro Succi serves as Director of Research at the Institute for Computing Applications (IAC) of the National Research Council of Italy  (CNR) since 1995. His main research interests cover computational statistical mechanics, kinetic theory, classical and quantum fluid dynamics, and high-performance computing. Dr. Succi is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has received the Humboldt Award in Physics (2002), the Killam Award bestowed by the University of Calgary (2005) and the Raman Chair of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2011). He also served as External Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (2009-2013) and Senior Fellow of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna (2013). He is the author of the well-known monograph “The Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Fluid Dynamics and Beyond” (Oxford U.P. 2001). He is included in the list of Top Italian Scientists and he has been Research Affiliate at the Physics Department of Harvard University since 2000.