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Author:

Zhang, Peihong

Title:

THEORY OF ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS: NOVEL GROUP-IV MATERIALS AND REAL SPACE METHODS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

multigrid
finite element methods
Electronic structure
real-space methods
carbon nanotubes
ab initio
band structure
semiconductor
planewave
pseudopotential

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Young-Ju

Title:

Modelling and Simulations of non-Newtonian fluid flows

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

conformation tensor
non-Newtonian models
constitutive equation
positivity preserving scheme
Riccati differential equation
Lie derivative
multigrid
singular problems
falling sphere simulations
the Johnson-Segalman model

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jinchao Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chun Liu, Committee Member
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Member
James Spiro Vrentas, Committee Member
Nigel David Higson, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Lu

Title:

the auxiliary space solvers and their applications

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

multigrid
auxiliary space
solver

File:

Download Lu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jinchao Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Joseph Brannick, Committee Member
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Chao Yang Wang, Special Member

Author:

Kodanganallur Narayanan, Ramachandran

Title:

Parallel Particle-in-cell Performance Optimization: A Case Study of Electrospray Simulation

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

electrospray
multigrid
parallel
particle-in-cell
colloid thruster

File:

Download ES-PICbench_Ramachandran_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kamesh Madduri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor