Thursday, February 15, 9:30 am in room MTH 3206, University of Maryland,
College Park
Models, Algorithms, and Computations for Superconductivity
Prof. Qiang Du
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
and the University of Science and Technology of Hongkong
madu@uxmail.ust.hk
Superconductivity has become of subject of renewed interest since
the recent discovery of materials that retain superconductive
properties at temperatures above the boiling point of nitrogen.
In the last few years, we have been working on the development of
numerical algorithms and computer codes for simulating various
physical phenomena in superconductors. Our work ranges from the
study of microscopic BCS models in the form of integral equations
to the study of macroscopic homogenized models given by variational
inequalities and nonlinear conservation laws. The center of attention
in our research, however, has been focused on the study the mezoscale Ginzburg-Landau type models and their variations that account for
properties of high-Tc materials. In this talk, numerical algorithms
for the approximate solution of the model equations will be discussed
along with some interesting simulations.
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