Applied Math Seminar
Winter Quarter 2002

Sloan Mathematics Corner
Building 380, Room 383-N


Wednesday, February 6, 2002
4:00 p.m.

Peter Kramer
RPI

A Simulation Method for Microphysiological Fluid
Systems with Thermal Fluctuations

Abstract:

I present a new computational method for simulating microscopic processes in physiology which accounts for stochastic thermal fluctuations and a dynamically evolving fluid environment. This latter feature is a principal advantage of our method relative to Brownian or Stokesian particle dynamics methods. Our approach builds on the "Immersed Boundary Method" of Peskin, which simplifies the coupling between the fluid and the immersed particles and membranes so as to avoid complex boundary problems.

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