Flash Workshop on kinetics of
mixtures and plasmas
Wednesday
February 13, morning time - POB 4.304
9:00 to 9:15 – coffee
9:15 to 9:45 - Clark Pennie (UT Austin-Math) "Spectral Methods for Fokker-Planck-Landau Type Equations"
9:50 to 10:20 - Anna Szscekutowicz (UT Austin-Math) ÒVelocity dependent Coulomb logarithm in the Landau limit of the Boltzmann equationÓ
10:20 to 10:50 Coffee
break
10:50
to 11:20 - Jeff Haack (LANL) "Consistent BGK models for
plasma mixtures".
11:20
to 11:50pm Erik
Torres - UMinn-Twin
Cities (ASE) Direct molecular simulation of dissociating nitrogen in an
adiabatic reactor"
11:50 to 12:20 George Oblapenko - (UT Austin-ASE)
ÒA velocity-space hybridization approach to modelling
rarefied gas flows".
12:20 to 12:50 Yasvanth
Poondla – (UT Austin-ASE) ÒModeling of Chemical Reactions using
Quasi-Particle Simulation (Quips) Ò
Thursday
February 14, morning time - POB 4.304
9:00 to 9:15 – coffee
9:15 to 9:45am – Milana Pavic-Colic (U Novi Sad-Math - Serbia) - ÒThe Cauchy problem for spatially homogenous Boltzmann flows: an unified approach for monatomic gas mixtures and polyatomic gasÓ
9:50 to 10:20am - Erica de la Canal, (UT Austin-Math) ÒGeneration and propagation of Lp polynomially weighted norms for gas mixturesÓ
10:20
to 10:50 am - Liu Liu, (UT Austin - ICES) ÒAn asymptotic-preserving scheme for
two-species collisional kinetic equations with disparate massesÓ
10:50 to 11:20 Coffee
break
11:20
to 11:50pm - Alessandro Munafo,
(UIUC-ASE)"Modeling
of Laser-Plasma Interactions in Non-equilibrium Plasmas"
11:50 to 12:20pm - Thierry Magin, (VKI, Belgium, ASE) ÒSemi-classical kinetic approach for internal energy.Ó
12:20:
12:50pm – Irene M. Gamba (UT Austin-Math&ICES) Ò a few
comments on the convergence and error estimates for a Conservative Spectral
method for Boltzmann EquationsÓ