| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L86135/01 |
| Title: |
JREI: PARALLEL ARRAY FOR MODELLING COMPLEX FLUIDS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Care, Professor CM |
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| Department: |
Materials Research Institute |
| Organisation: |
Sheffield Hallam University |
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JREI |
| Starts: |
15 April 1998 |
Ends: |
14 April 2001 |
Value (£): |
14,000
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Complex fluids & soft solids |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
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In this proposal we seek top-up funding for a four node parallel computer array to undertake simulations of complex fluids. The equipment will be used to undertake a number of industrially sponsored projects. In the first project, we shall explore the relationship between interparticle interactions and the tendency to form a bulk smectic C phase. This phase, which has yet to be observed in simulation, is used in fast switching liquid crystal devices. In the second, we propose to explore the development of a novel Lattice Boltzmann scheme with governing macroscopic equations which model the flow of anisotropic liquids. This scheme is well established for modelling the flow of isotropic fluids, and the SHU group has extended the method to describe two component systems with a surface of tension. Potential applications of the developments proposed here include switching in simple geometries. The final project involves the development of a new method for simulating micellar systems by direct calculation of cluster properties using a new Rosenbluth scheme which has recently been developed within the group. The method holds out the promise of a route for simulating self assembly in amphiphilic systems with much more detailed potentials than is currently possible.
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http://www.shu.ac.uk |