Computational Multiscale Modeling of Fluids and Solids: Theory and Applications [Paperback]

Devastatingly simple, yet hugely effective, the concept of this timely text is to provide a comprehensive overview of computational physics methods and techniques used for materials modeling on different length and time scales. Each chapter first provides an overview of the physical basic principles which are the basis for the numerical and mathematical modeling on the respective length scale. The book includes the micro scale, the meso-scale and the macro scale.

Fundamentals.- Multiscale Computational Materials Science.- Mathematical and Physical Prerequisites.- Fundamentals of Numerical Simulation.- Computational Methods on Multiscales.- Computational Methods on Electronic/Atomistic Scale.- Computational Methods on Atomistic/Microscopic Scale.- Computational Methods on Mesoscopic/Macroscopic Scale.- Perspectives in Multiscale Materials Modeling.

From the reviews:

This is an advanced mathematical treatise devoted to an overview of numerical computational methods and techniques for materials modeling on different length and time scales. Steinhauser & covers microscale, mesoscale, and macroscale of materials modeling in two parts and seven chapters. & The book includes several appendixes, with one that provides further reading and another that lists almost 500 references. & Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty in mathematics and physics. (R. Darby, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (10), June, 2008)

1. Career to Date:

2003-present Senior scientist in the Department of Numerical Simulation

at the fraunhofer Ernst-Mach Institute (EMI)

Managing project leader of the project MMM-Tools , (Multiscale Materials Modeling) in cooperation of 9 different Fraunhofer-Institutes in Germany (www.mmm-tools.de)

Advisor of Diploma and PhD students in Physics and Mathematics

2002-200lÓ*