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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.
Videos:
NSF Science Nation report on Physics of Animation at San Jose State
Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia:
* 28th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Zaragoza, Spain, July 9-13, 2012
* Direct Simulation Monte Carlo 2011: Theory, Methods, and Applications (DSMC11), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, September 25-28, 2011
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AMS Von Neumann Symposium on Multimodel and Multialgorithm Approaches to Multiscale Problems, Snowbird, Utah, USA,
July 4-7, 2011 [Download Poster (pdf)]
Talks:
* "Enhancement of Diffusive Transport by Non-equilibrium Thermal Fluctuations",
Direct Simulation Monte Carlo 2011: Theory, Methods, and Applications (DSMC11),
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, September 28th, 2011
(Slides: PowerPoint,
PDF)
* "Surprising Hydrodynamic Phenomena Discovered by DSMC",
RTO-AVT-VKI Lecture Series,
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics,
Brussels, Belgium, January 24th 2011
(Slides: PowerPoint,
PDF)
* "Direct Simulation Monte Carlo: theory, methods, and open challenges",
RTO-AVT-VKI Lecture Series,
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics,
Brussels, Belgium, January 25th 2011
(Slides: PowerPoint,
PDF)
Recent Papers:
* "Enhancement of Diffusive Transport by Nonequilibrium Thermal Fluctuations", A. Donev, A. de la Fuente, J. B. Bell, and A. L. Garcia, Journal of Statistical Mechanics, 2011 P06014 (2011).
(PDF).
* "Diffusive Transport Enhanced by Thermal Velocity Fluctuations", A. Donev, A. de la Fuente, J. B. Bell, and A. L. Garcia, Physical Review Letters 106 204501 (2011).
(PDF).
* "Physics for Animation Artists",
D. Chai and A. Garcia,
The Physics Teacher 49 478 (2011).
(PDF).
![[sketchbook]](art/Sbook_12_22.jpg)