[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.

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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)

Recent Papers:
* "Physics for Animation Artists", D. Chai and A. Garcia, submitted to The Physics Teacher (2010). (PDF).
* "Hydrodynamic fluctuations in a particle-continuum hybrid for complex fluids", A. Garcia, A. Donev, J.B. Bell, and B. Alder, submitted to the proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics (2010). (PDF).
* "On the Accuracy of Explicit Finite-Volume Schemes for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics", A. Donev, E. Vanden-Eijnden, A. Garcia, and J.B. Bell, Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science 5 149–197 (2010). (PDF).
* "A hybrid particle-continuum method for hydrodynamics of complex fluids", A. Donev, J.B. Bell, A. Garcia, and B. Alder, SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 8 871-911 (2010). (PDF).

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