Advances In The Computational Sciences - Proceedings Of The Symposium In Honor Of Dr Berni Alder's 90th Birthday

by Eric Schwegler, Brenda M Rubenstein, Stephen B Libby

Overview

On August 20, 2015, a symposium at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was held in honor of Berni J. Alder's 90th birthday. Many of Berni's scientific colleagues and collaborators, former students, and post-doctoral fellows came to celebrate and honor Berni and the ground-breaking scientific impact of his many discoveries. This proceedings volume includes contributions from Berni's collaborators and covers a range of topics, including the melting transition in the 2D hard disk system, non-equilibrium fluid relaxation, the role of fluctuations in hydrodynamics, glass transitions, molecular dynamics of dense fluids, shock-wave and finite-strain equation of state relationships, and applications of quantum mechanics in pattern recognition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813209411
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/19/2017
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Welcome and Reflections on Berni Alder C. Bruce Tarter 1

2 An Appreciation: Berni Julian Alder William Graham Hoover 4

3 Why Non-Equilibrium is Different J. Robert Dorfman Theodore R. Kirkpatrick Jan V. Sengers 24

4 The Onset of Turbulence in Wall-bounded Flows with Surface Roughness and Fluctuations Pratanu Roy Todd H. Weisgraber Berni J. Alder 52

5 Reversible Diffusion by Thermal Fluctuations Aleksandar Donev Thomas G. Fai Eric Vanden-Eijnden 67

6 Hard Sphere Simulation by Event-Driven Molecular Dynamics: Breakthrough, Numerical Difficulty, and Overcoming the Issues Masaharu Isobe 83

7 Reflections on the Glass Transition Jean-Marc Bomont Jean-Pierre Hansen Giorgio Pastore 108

8 Berni Alder and Phase Transitions in Two Dimensions J. Micheal Kosterlitz 131

9 Molecular dynamics of dense fluids: Simulation-theory symbiosis Sidney Yip 134

10 Shock-Wave and Finite-Strain Equations of State at Large Expansion Raymond Jeanloz 148

11 Machine Learning and Quantum Mechanics George Chapline 162

12 The Early Years of Molecular Dynamics and Computers at UCRL, LRL, LLL, and LLNL Mary Ann Mansigh Karlsen 176

13 Overcoming the Fermion Sign Problem in Homogeneous Systems Jonathan L DuBois Ethan W. Brown Berni J. Alder 184