Pedro Garrido - Universidad de Granada
Date/Time/Location
Thursday, September 26th, 12:10pm; Hill Center 705
COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF HARD PARTICLES: A TOOL TO UNDERSTAND MACROSCOPIC LAWS
Hard particle systems are among the most successful, inspiring, and prolific models in physics. They contain the essential ingredients needed to understand a large class of complex phenomena. Nowadays, they can be used to provide insights into the macroscopic behavior of systems out of equilibrium. In this talk, we review some of our work in this direction, ranging from local equilibrium and Fourier’s law to the transition to convective flow in the presence of gravity, the efficiency of boundary dissipation, and Boltzmann's entropy behavior.