[Numerical Methods for Physics] [Alejandro L. Garcia] Illustration by Charlene Fleming

Alejandro Garcia's Home Page

As a university professor and a research scientist, I spend much of my time distributing information. The purpose of this site is to do this more efficiently. You'll also find some personal items, such as paintings, prints, and sketchbook drawings.

What's New ?

Animation Physics:
Physics of Animation (Art/Phys 123) is being offered for the first time as an upper-division General Education course at San Jose State this Fall semester.

Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia:
* 27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Asilomar Conference Grounds Pacific Grove, California, USA; July 11-16, 2010
* AMS Von Neumann Symposium on Multimodel and Multialgorithm Approaches to Multiscale Problems, Summer 2011

Talks:
* Short Course on Direct Simulation Monte Carlo, presented at DSMC09 - Direct Simulation Monte Carlo: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; September 13, 2009 (Slides)
* Talk on Physics of Animation project presented at Winter 2009 meeting of Am. Assoc. Physics Teachers (Slides Only, Slides and Movies)

Recent Papers:
* "A hybrid particle-continuum method for hydrodynamics of complex fluids", A. Donev, J.B. Bell, A. Garcia, and B. Alder, to appear in SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation (2010). (PDF).
* "A Thermodynamically-Consistent Non-Ideal Stochastic Hard-Sphere Fluid", A. Donev, B. Alder, and A. Garcia, Journal of Statistical Physics P11008 (2009). (PDF).
* "On the Accuracy of Explicit Finite-Volume Schemes for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics", A. Donev, E. Vanden-Eijnden, A. Garcia, and J.B. Bell, submitted to Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (2009). (PDF).

50th Birthday Party: Photos

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