MSE 524 Mini-Symposium Program
Friday, May 13, 2005, Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 347
- 9:00 Zhibin Lin, Analysis of the kinetics and mechanisms of laser melting: molecular dynamic simulations and comparison to femtosecond electron diffraction experiments.
- 9:40 Vatanak Chann, Simulation of the ejection of a liquid nanojet from a nanoscale nozzle and its disintegration into droplets.
- 10:20 Stephan Guy, Development of a java applet for on-line molecular dynamics simulation with a choice of initial atomic configurations, temperature and pressure control.
- 11:00 Elizabeth Horahan, Continuum modeling of time dependent air cooling of phase transformations in NiTi and CuZnAl shape memory alloy actuators and development of a two-dimensional model for molecular dynamics simulation of the shape memory effect.
- 11:40 - 12:20 Pizza Break
- 12:20 William Lonergan, Low-energy structures and phase transformations in small atomic clusters: molecular dynamics and Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations.
- 13:00 Christopher Nelson, Simulation of electrical breakdown and explosive disintegration of a nano-wire subjected to a high electrical current.
- 13:40 Richard Salaway: Simulation of fast transient processes in thin metal films irradiated by short laser pulses.
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