DSMC07 Program Agenda

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Sunday, September 30, 2007
Short Course - Chair: Graeme Bird
1:00-5:00 pm Sophisticated DSMC
5:00 pm Opening Reception
Monday, October 1, 2007
Opening - Chair: Michael Gallis
8:30-9:00 am
Welcome
Arthur Ratzel
Session 1 - Keynote Address. Chair: Graeme Bird
9:00-10:00 am
Hydrodynamics by DSMC
Berni Alder
10:00-10:30 am
Break
Session 2 - Near Continuum Flows. Chair: Alejandro Garcia
10:30-11:10 am Invited: Taylor-Couette Flows of a Vapor-Gas Mixture: Bifurcation in the Near Continuum Regime
Hiroaki Yoshida, Kazuo Aoki
11:10-11:35 am Effects of Up-Flow Induced Exit Vortices and “Reverse” Thermal Creep Flows on Micro/Meso-Scale Knudsen Compressor Performance
Yen-Lin Han
11:35-12:00 am Convergence Behavior of a New DSMC Algorithm
Graeme Bird, Michael Gallis, John Torczynski, Daniel Rader
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch

Session 3 - Transient Flows. Chair: Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou

1:00-1:40 pm Invited: Shear Driven Oscillatory Gas Flows in the Entire Knudsen Regime
Ali Beskok
1:40-2:05 pm The Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities via Large-scale DSMC
John Barber, Kai Kadau, Timothy Germann, Berni Alder
2:05-2:30 pm Kinetic Level Modeling of Oscillating Nano-flows
Francis Alexander
2:30-2:55 pm DSMC Simulation of Multi-dimensional Non-stationary Problems with the SMILE Software System
Mikhail Ivanov, Yevgeniy Bondar
2:55-3:20 pm Adaptive Mesh and Algorithm Refinement for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
John Bell, Alejandro Garcia, Sarah Williams
3:20-3:50 pm Break
Session 4 - Chemically Reacting Flows. Chair: John Torczynski
3:50-4:15 pm Sensitivity of a DSMC Solution to the Thermochemistry Model for Non-equilibrium Reentry Flows
Matthew McNenly, Aaron Wemhoff, Henry Hsieh
4:15-4:40 pm Forbidden Interval of Propagation Speed for Exothermic Chemical Fronts
Annie Lemarchand, Marcin Leda, Bogdan Nowakowski
4:40-5:05 pm A DSMC Comparison Between Two Different Models Evaluating the Occurrence of Chemical Reactions
Gennaro Zuppardi, Francesco Romano
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Session 5 - Novel Methods. Chair: Forrest Lumpkin
8:00-8:40 am Invited: Efficient Methods for Solving the Boltzmann Equation
Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou
8:40-9:05 am Quiet Direct Simulation Monte Carlo with Random Timesteps
William Peter
9:05-9:30 am Direct Simulation Quasi Monte Carlo
Jose Camberos, Robert Greendyke, Larry Lambe
9:30-9:55 am Toward a Multiscale Particle Approach for Continuum/Rarefied Flow Simulation
Jonathan Burt, Iain Boyd
9:55-10:20 am Break
Session 6 - Mass, Momentum, & Energy Transfer. Chair: Mikhail Ivanov
10:20-10:45 am Modeling Magnetron Sputter Deposition with DSMC
Chris Walton, George Gilmer, Luis Zepeda-Ruiz, Troy Barbee
10:45-11:10 am Radiometric Forces on Heated Plates: Contributing Mechanisms and Applications
Sergey Gimelshein, Andrew Ketsdever, Cedrick Ngalande, Nathaniel Selden, Natalia Gimelshein
11:10-11:35 am Experimental Determination of Thermal Accommodation Coefficients in a
Parallel-Plate Geometry

Wayne Trott, Daniel Rader, John Torczynski, Michael Gallis, Jaime Castañeda
11:35-12:00 am Energy Deposition from Pulsed Optical Lattices to Molecular Gases
Sergey Gimelshein, Mikhail Shneider
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
Session 7 - Hypersonics. Chair: Ingrid Wysong
1:00-1:40 pm Invited: Plume Impingement to the Lunar Surface: A Challenging Problem for DSMC
Forrest Lumpkin, Jeremiah Marichalar, Anthony Piplica
1:40-2:05 pm DSMC Modeling of a Strongly Ionized Reentry Flow
Takashi Ozawa, Jiaqiang Zhong, Deborah Levin
2:05-2:30 pm Progress on a Modular Particle-Continuum Numerical Method for Multi-Scale Hypersonic Flows
Thomas Schwartzentruber, Leonardo Scalabrin, Iain Boyd
2:30-2:55 pm Several Theoretical Descriptions for Shock Waves
Francisco Uribe
2:55-3:20 pm DSMC Convergence Behavior for Transient Shear Flow
John Torczynski, Michael Gallis, Daniel Rader
3:20-3:50 pm Break
Session 8 - MD-DSMC Hybrids. Chair: Kazuo Aoki
3:50-4:15 pm An Event-Driven Hybrid MD/DSMC Algorithm: Hydrodynamics of Polymer Chains in Shear Flow
Aleksandar Donev, Alejandro Garcia, Berni Alder
4:15-4:40 pm Advanced MD Condensation Models for Modeling Water Expansions into Vacuum Conditions
Zheng Li, Jiaqiang Zhong, Deborah Levin
4:40-5:05 pm PIC/DSMC Model of RF Glow Discharge Thruster
William Stein, Alina Alexeenko, Ivana Hrbud
6:30 pm Banquet
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Session 9 - Algorithms. Chair: Ali Beskok
8:00-8:25 am DSMC and Collision Limiter Forms for Modeling Supersonic Nozzle and Channel Flows
Evgeny Titov, Deborah Levin
8:25-8:50 am Particle Simulation of Coulomb Collisions: Comparing the Methods of Takizuka & Abe and Nanbu
Chiaming Wang, Tungyou Lin, Russel Caflisch, Bruce Cohen, Andris Dimits
8:50-9:15 am Accelerating DSMC Data Extraction
Edward Piekos, Michael Gallis
9:15-9:40 am Parallel DSMC Simulations with the SMILE++ Software System
Pavel Vashchenkov, Aleksandr Kashkovsky, Mikhail Ivanov
9:40-10:05 am Developing a General-Purpose Parallelized Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Code (PDSC) Using Unstructured Grid: A Progress Report
Jong-Shinn Wu, K.-C. Tseng, Y.-Y. Lian, Y.-S. Chen, H. M. Hadley, J.-P. Yu
10:05-10:45 am Break
Session 10 - NS-DSMC Hybrids. Chair: Alina Alexeenko
10:45-11:10 am Unsteady Hybrid DSMC Simulations
Douglas VanGilder, Richard Wilmoth, John Papp
11:10-11:35 am Modifying the Continuum Constitutive Relations for Non-Equilibrium Using Entropy Generation
Ryan Carr, Jose Camberos, Richard Branam
11:35-12:00 am Multiple Temperature Model for Near Continuum Flow Computation
Kun Xu, Hongwei Liu
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
Session 12 - Round Table Discussion. Chair: Alejandro Garcia
1:00-2:15 pm Future Trends in DSMC Research
2:15 pm Farewell Reception

 



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