PME Special Seminar: Dr. Sauro Succi

Computational Design of Soft Mesoscale Materials<br /><br />

Major progress in experimental microfluidics over the last decades has spawned the opportunity to realize and explore new states of droplet-based soft flowing matter, such as microfluidic crystals, highdensity disordered emulsions, bijels, as well as various types of soft granular flows. Besides their numerous applications in science, engineering and life sciences, these novel states of soft matter raise new
challenges to non-equilibrium statistical physics because they host strongly nonlinear and nonlocal effects which do not permit to trace their mechanical and rheological properties back to those of the three fundamental states of matter (solid, liquid and gas).<br /><br />

In this talk I shall present selected computer simulations and machine-learning algorithms which help shedding light into these new fascinating states of soft flowing matter. As time allows, I shall also discuss some preliminary evidence of active-like droplet behavior in high-density, strongly confined emulsions in the presence of solid obstacles.<br /><br />

Host: Giulia Galli

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