COURSE COORDINATORS
Molecular Dynamics Simulations
- What can Molecular Dynamics do for you?
- Brid’s eye view of statistical mechanics
- Simple crystals structures
- Choice of interatomic potentials
- Equilibrium properties of materials
- Extraction of elastic constants and strength of materials from simulations
- Extraction of thermal conductivity
- Non-equilibrium processes
- Diffusion
- Radiation damage
- Introduction to LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. (http://lammps.sandia.gov/)
Dr.Ratnakumar Annabattula
Assistant Professor
IIT Madras
Phone(O): 044-2257 4719
Email: ratna@iitm.ac.in
Discrete Element Modelling
- Basics of granular mechanics
- Contact models
- Introduction to DEM
- Development of simple 2D DEM code
- Homogenization, Average Stress, Coordination number, Anisotropy
- Fabric in granular systems
- Heat transfer in granular systems
- Continuum description of granular systems
- Introduction to LIGGGHTS - open source DEM code based on LAMMPS
Dr.Sundararajan Natarajan
Assistant Professor
IIT Madras
Phone(O): 044-2257 4656
Email: snatarajan@iitm.ac.in
Extended and regular Finite Elements
- Overview of finite element method
- Various discretization techniques
- Critical assessment on the choice of discretization
- Multiscale methods and taxonomy
- Discussion on concurrent and semi-concurrent multiscale methods, example of quasi-continuum and FE2 methods
- Programming FEM in Octave (open source code similar to Matlab)
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