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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.
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
![[sketchbook]](art/Sbook_12_22.jpg)