Qi Wang, University of South Carolina and NanoCenter at USC


Modeling complex fluid/soft matter systems using kinetic theories

Abstract: Kinetic theory is a useful formalism to derive models for material systems that can be coarse-grained to dilute particles or large molecule congregations. It has been extremely successful for dilute gases and polymeric liquids. In this talk, I will present a few variations of the kinetic theories for polymer blends and biofilms. Numerical results for simple flow geometries will be presented.


Address: Department of Mathematics and NanoCenter at USC, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205. Go to Professor Wang's website.