Flint Fund Series on Modeling Granular Media

Time: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Type: Seminar Series
Presenter: Prof. Mark D. Shattuck; Department of Physics and Benjamin Levich Institute, The City College of of New York
Room/Office: Room 107
Location:
Mason Lab
9 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
United States

Flint Fund Lecture Series on Modeling Granular Media

Prof. Mark D. Shattuck
Department of Physics and Benjamin Levich Institute
The City College of of New York

Tuesday, April 28 and Thursday, April 30
1 to 2:30 p.m.
Mason Laboratory, Room 107

Topics: Discrete element modeling; Contact force laws; models for kinetic and static friction; boundary conditions; numerical solutions to Newton's equations of motion; mechanical stability; force ensemble techniques.

Audience: Undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and others interested in hands-on computational modeling of granular materials. Please bring your laptop with matlab pre-installed.