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Application of Multigrid Techniques to Magnetic and Electromagnetic Systems
04 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Benjamin Cowan
We discuss the use of multigrid techniques for several novel systems related to electromagnetics. One of these is the magnetostatic problem, in which systems can involve highly anisotropic and nonlinear materials. We describe the linear problems arising in several variations of this problem,...
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biomoca
30 May 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Reza Toghraee, Umberto Ravaioli
Ion channel simulator
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BioMOCA Suite
04 Feb 2008 | | Contributor(s):: David Papke, Reza Toghraee, Umberto Ravaioli, Ankit Raj
Simulates ion flow through a channel.
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BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine Lecture 25: Force Traction Microscopy
16 Nov 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Javid Mohammed Ali
BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology provides an introduction to basic concepts of nanotechnology in mechanobiology and in cancer. This is a highly interdisciplinary field of research where knowledge from various disciplines is presented and integrated....
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CAD of MEMS & NEMS: State of the Art & Future Challenges
24 Feb 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Andreas Cangellaris
Computer aided design environments are very mature and used extensively for the design of every integrated electronical component that is commercially available to all of us. This presentation reviews recent developments in taking that framework and making it pertinent to the design of systems...
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Carbon Nanotechnology: Scientific and Technological Issues
24 Feb 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Joe Lyding
Carbon nanotechnologies based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and graphene (a single atomic layer of graphite) are being pursued for a wide range of technological applications ranging from chemical sensing to post-silicon nanoelectronics. A common thread is the need to atomistically...
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CNT Mobility
26 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Yang Zhao, Albert Liao, Eric Pop
Simulate field effect carrier mobility in back-gated CNTFET devices at low field
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Compatible Relaxation Based Geometric-Algebraic Multigrid
02 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Fei Cao
We develop compatible relaxation algorithms for smoothed aggregation-based multigrid coarsening. In the proposed method, we use the geometry of the given discrete problem on the finest level to coarsen the system together with compatible relaxation to from the sparsity structure of the...
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Controlling Membrane Organization: Effects of pH, Ions, and composition
23 Mar 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Jennifer Hovis
Our main research interests are in determining, at the molecular level, how cell membranes are organized and how that organization relates to function. The primary molecular building blocks of cell membranes are lipids, amphipathic molecules that assemble into two opposed leaflets forming a...
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Data-Centric Models for Multilevel Algorithms
05 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Samuel Guiterrez
Today, computational scientists must contend with a diverse set of supercomputer architectures that are capable of exposing unprecedented levels of parallelism and complexity. Effectively placing, moving, and operating on data residing in complex distributed memory hierarchies is quickly becoming...
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Discretization of Elliptic Differential Equations Using Sparse Grids and Prewavelets
02 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Christoph Pflaum
Sparse grids can be used to discretize second order elliptic differential equations on a d-dimensional cube. Using Galerkin discretization, we obtain a linear equation system with unknowns. The corresponding discretization error is in the -norm. A major difficulty in...
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DIY BIOSENSORS Summer 2014 Workshop
26 Jun 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Kaustubh Bhalerao
Learn how to build a simple, low cost sensor to detect spoiled milk using simple materials that illustrate cool concepts such as microfluidics, sample processing and biodetection.In this project you will design microfluidic patterns, construct them out of clear plastic film, add...
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Ferroelectric BaTiO3 Nanowires: Synthesis, Properties, and Device Applications
12 Feb 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Zhaoyu Wang
One dimensional ferroelectric nanowires have attracted much attention due to its interests in fundamental physics and potential applications in Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS), non-volatile ferroelectric memories, and sensors. Domain structure is the most important property of ferroelectric...
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Geometric Multigrid for MHD Simulations with Nedelec Finite Elements on Tetrahedral Grids
02 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Chris Hansen
The Magneto-HydroDynamic (MHD) model is used extensively to simulate macroscopic plasma dynamics in Magnetic Confinement Fusion (MCF) devices. In these simulations, the span of time scales from fast wave dynamics to the desired evolution of equilibrium due to transport processes is large,...
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Harnessing Solid-State Ionic Transport
14 Apr 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Keng Hsu
Metallic nanostructures are the essential components of a large number of high-performance electronic devices, plasmonic devices, as well as physical and chemical sensors. Fabrication of nano-scale metallic features with controlled geometry has so far relied on lithographic processes that are...
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High Dimensional Uncertainty Quantification via Multilevel Monte Carlo
02 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Hillary Fairbanks
Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) has been shown to be a cost effective way to compute moments of desired quantities of interest in stochastic partial differential equations when the uncertainty in the data is high-dimensional. In this talk, we investigate the improved performance of MLMC versus...
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HPGMG: Benchmarking Computers Using Multigrid
02 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Jed Brown
HPGMG (https://hpgmg.org) is a geometric multigrid benchmark designed to measure the performance and versatility of computers. For a benchmark to be representative of applications, good performance on the benchmark should be sufficient to ensure good performance on most important applications and...
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Hub Snub: Removing Vertices with High Degree from Coarse-grid Correction
02 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Geoffry Sanders
Network scientists often employ numerical solutions to linear systems as subroutines of data mining algorithms. Due to the ill-conditioned nature of the systems, obtaining solutions with standard iterative methods is often prohibitively costly; current research aims to automatically construct...
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Illinois 2009 nano-biophotonics Summer School, Lecture 10: Introduction to Nanophotonics
27 Oct 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Logan Liu
Introduction to NanophotonicsTopics: Early examples of Nanophotonics Nanophotonics in Mother Nature Foundation of Nanophotonics Near Field Optics Quantum Confinement Computational Nanophotonics Finite Difference Time Domain Static State Computation Plasmonics Metamaterials Photonic Crystal All...
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Illinois 2009 nano-biophotonics Summer School, Lecture 11: Plasmonics, Metamaterials
27 Oct 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Nick Fang
Plasmonics, Meta-MaterialsTopics: New Frontiers of Photonics What Are Meta-Materials? Electromagnetic Meta-Materials Effective Medium Properties Plasmonic "Atoms" and "Crystals" Plasmonic Response Physics of Surface Plasmon Artificial Magnetism Split Ring Resonators The Swiss Roll Structure...