Simulating Fluid and Solid Particles and Continua with SPH and Spam

Abstract

In my own research career I have been primarily interested in the statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems of particles, stressing new techniques for undertaking and understanding computer simulations [1, 2]. The blind alleys toward which molecular dynamics naturally leads provide a compensating appreciation of continuum mechanics, with its length scale more appropriate to everyday experiences. For me, it was a pleasure to learn that the two approaches, microsopic and macroscopic, can be usefully combined, using ideas due to Lucy and Monaghan.