Presentations

• Macroscopic Modelling of Rarefied and Vacuum Gas Flows
  Center for Environmental Research and Sustainable Technology, University Bremen, Germany, Nov. 29, 2011

• Macroscopic Modelling of Rarefied and Vacuum Gas Flows
  Dept. Physics, Technical University Chemnitz, Germany, November 25, 2011
  

• Unique moment set from the order of magnitude method
  Workshop on Boltzmann Models in Kinetic Theory, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Brown University, Rhode Island, November 7-11, 2011
  

• Non-equilibrium evaporation model for kinetic theory
  Workshop Dynamics of Complex Fluid-Fluid Interfaces, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands, September 26-30, 2011

• Macroscopic Modelling of Rarefied and Vacuum Gas Flows
  SINTEF-NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, September 7, 2011
  

• The Regularized 13 Moment Equations for Rarefied and Vacuum Gas Flows
  64th IUVSTA Workshop: Practical Applications and Methods of Gas Dynamics for Vacuum Science & Technology. Leinsweiler, Germany, May 16-19, 2011
  

• Beyond Hydrodynamics: The Regularized 13 Moment Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows
  University of Kyoto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Science,
  Graduate School of Engineering, October 28, 2010
  

• Beyond Hydrodynamics: The Regularized 13 Moment Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows
  Workshop on Conservation Laws, Plasma and Related Fields, Seoul National University, October 21-23, 2010
  

• Mikro- und Vakuumströmungen in Gasen:
  Modellbildung und Simulation
  Thermodynamik Kolloquium, Leibniz Universität Hannover, October 12, 2010
  

• Analytical and Numerical Solutions of Boundary Value Problems for the Regularized 13 Moment Equations
   27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Pacific Grove, California, USA, July 10-15, 2010
  

• How (not) to teach the second law
  Institute for Polymer Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, June18-July 2, 2010
  
  
• The Regularized 13 Moment Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows
  20th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena (ISTP-20), Victoria, BC, Canada, July 7-10, 2009

• Analytical and numerical solutions of the regularized 13 moment equations for rarefied gases
  PIMS Workshop on Topics in Kinetic Theory, University of Victoria, Canada, June 29 - July 3, 2009

• Beyond Hydrodynamics: Macroscopic Transport Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows
  Workshop on Theory and Applications of Classical and Quantum Kinetic Theory, BIRS, Banff, Canada, June 21-26, 2009

• Beyond Hydrodynamics: Macroscopic Transport Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows
  Workshop on Computational Kinetic Transport and Hybrid Methods, Inst. for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, March 30 - April 3, 2009
  

• Gas-Mikroströmungen: Thermodynamik und Simulation
  Kolloquium Technische Thermodynamik, Universität Kassel, Germany, March 20, 2009
  

• How many moments do we need, really?
  Workshop on Moment Methods in Kinetic Theory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, November 6-8, 2008

• Beyond Hydrodynamics: Macroscopic transport equations for rarefied gases
  Seminar on Applied Mathematics, UVic, October 14/21, 2008

• Beyond Hydrodynamics: Macroscopic transport equations for rarefied gases
  Graduate Seminar, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, UVic, October 6, 2008
  

• The Regularized 13 Moment Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows
  Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, July 28, 2008 (Host: M. Sugiyama)
  

• H-theorem and boundary conditions for the regularized 13 moment equations
  26th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Kyoto, Japan, July 21-25, 2008

• Boundary conditions and Knudsen layers for moment equations of rarefied gas dynamics
  Workshop on Material Theories, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, December 16-22, 2007

• Surface Tension in a Reactive Binary Mixture of Incompressible Fluids
  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Research Training Group Analysis, Numerics, and Optimization of Multiphase Problems (Graduiertenkolleg 1128), Berlin, Germany, November 1, 2007

• Surface Tension in a Reactive Binary Mixture of Incompressible Fluids
  Technical University Berlin, Lehrstuhl fuer Mechanik, Berlin, Germany, October 31, 2007 (host: W.H. Müller)
  

• Models for non-equilibrium evaporation and condensation
  Weierstrass Institute for Applied Mathematics and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany, October 30, 2007 (host: W. Dreyer)
  

• Models for non-equilibrium evaporation and condensation
  Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Zürich, Switzerland, September 10, 2007
  

• Knudsen Layers from Moment Equations
  Research Workshop Mathematics of Model Reduction, University of Leicester, UK, August 28-30, 2007
  

• H-theorem, regularization, and boundary conditions for linearized 13 moment equations
  51st IUVSTA Workshop on Modern Problems & Capability of Vacuum Gas Dynamics, Djurönäset, Värmdö, Sweden, July 9-12, 2007

• H-theorem, regularization, and boundary conditions for linearized 13 moment equations
  14th Conference on Waves and Stability in Continuous Media, Scicli (Ragusa), Italy, June 30 - July 6, 2007 [pdf]

• Regularized 13 Moment Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows
  Dept. of Mathematics, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany, Mai 23, 2007 (Host: Prof. R. Pinnau)
  

• Brenner's equations revisited
  Polymer Physics Seminar, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January 24, 2007

• Bulk equations and Knudsen layers for the regularized 13 moment equations
  Microfluidics 2006, Toulouse, France, Dec. 12-14, 2006

• Macroscopic Transport Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows
  3rd International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science, Hampton, VA, July 25-28, 2006
  

• An Alternative to the Chapman-Enskog and Grad Methods
  25th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 21-28, 2006
  

• Scaling and expansion of moment equations in kinetic theory
  ERCOFTAC lecture, Polymer Physics, ETH  Zurich, Switzerland, Nov. 11, 2005
  

• Macroscopic transport equations for rarefied gas flows
  ERCOFTAC lectures, Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Nov. 7-9, 2005 (3 lectures) Part I      Part II      Part III

• Macroscopic models for rarefied gas flows
  Workshop on Model Reduction and Coarse Graining for Multiscale Phenomena, University of Leicester, UK, August 24-26, 2005

• Non-equilibrium evaporation and condensation
  Lehrstuhl für Strömungsmechanik, University of Erlangen, Germany, August 9, 2005  (Host:  Prof. F. Durst)

• A macroscopic model for PEM membranes
  Weierstrass Institute for Applied Mathematics and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany, August 4, 2005 (Host: J. Fuhrman)
  

• A macroscopic model for PEM membranes
  Computational Fuel Cell Dynamics-III , Banff International Research Station, Banff, AB, Canada, March 19-24, 2005
  

• Models for non-equilibrium evaporation and condensation
  University of Toronto, February 18, 2005 (Host: C.A. Ward)
  

• Macroscopic models for rarefied gas flows
  Thermodynamische Materialtheorie (Thermodynamic Constitutive Theories), Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, December 12-18, 2004

• Non-equilibrium evaporation and condensation
  Symposium on Topics in Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Schmalkalden, Germany, September 26 - October 1, 2004
  

• Stable transport equations for rarefied gases at high orders in the Knudsen number
  The Sixth International Workshop on Mathematical Aspects of Fluid and Plasma Dynamics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, September 19-23, 2004

• Transport Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Membranes
  NRC-IFCI / IESVic Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, September 1-2, 2004

• Stable transport equations for rarefied gases at high orders in the Knudsen number
  Seminar on Applied Mathematics, University of Victoria, October 15, 2003

• The methods of Chapman-Enskog and Grad, revisited
  Workshop on Invariance and Model Reduction for Multiscale Phenomena, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, August 26-29, 2003

• Regularization of Grad's moment equations by means of the Chapman-Enskog method
  UFR MIG, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (host: Luc Mieussens) , May  19-22, 2003

• Fuel Cell Technology and Thermodynamics (Session organizer and leader)
  Gordon Research Conference on Modern Developments in Thermodynamics, Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy, May 11-13, 2003

• Microscale Transport in Gases
  Institute of Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, February 3, 2003

• Parabolic Extended Thermodynamics
  Thermodynamische Materialtheorie, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, December 15-21, 2002
  

• Regularization of Grad's moment equations: Stability, Dispersion, Shocks
  Seminar on Applied Mathematics, University of Victoria, October 10, 2002
  

• Regularization of Grad's moment equations: Stability, Dispersion, Shocks
  Symposium on Trends and Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics (STAMM2002), Maiori (SA) , Italy, Sept. 29-Oct. 4, 2002
  
 
• Grad's Moment Equations for Microscale Flows
  23rd International Symposium on Rarefied Gasdynamics, Whistler, BC, Canada, July 20 - 25, 2002
  
 
• Numerical Solutions for the BGK-Model with Velocity-Dependent Collision Frequency
  23rd International Symposium on Rarefied Gasdynamics, Whistler, BC, Canada, July 20 - 25, 2002

• How much work is lost in an irreversible turbine?
  13th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, Victoria, BC, Canada, July 14-18, 2002
  

• Grad's Moment Equations for Microscale Heat Transfer
  Fourteenth U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Blacksburg, VA, June 23-28, 2002

• Heat Transfer in the Transition Regime: Solution of Boundary Value Problems for Grad's Moment Equations via Kinetic Schemes
  International Conference on Continuum Physics and Thermodynamics, Potsdam, Germany, July 30-August 3, 2001
  
 
• Solution of Boundary Value Problems for Grad's Moment Equations via Kinetic Schemes
  Thermodynamic Constitutive Equations, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, December 17-23, 2000
  
 
• Heat Transfer in the Transition Regime: Solution of Boundary Value Problems for Grad's Moment Equations via Kinetic Schemes
  Dept. of Mathematics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, August 31, 2000
  
 
• Heat Transfer in Rarefied Gases: Temperature Jumps and Boundary Layers Computed with Grad's Moment Method
  Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria (BC), Victoria, BC, Canada, June 16, 2000
  
 
• Coagulation of Aerosol Droplets with Coagulating Enclosures
  IMA Postdoc Seminar, Minneapolis, MN, June 13, 2000
  
 
• Heat Transfer in the Transition Regime: Solution of Boundary Value Problems for Grad's  Moment Equations via Kinetic Schemes
  IMA workshop on Simulation of Transport in Transition Regimes, Minneapolis, MN, May 22-26, 2000
  
 
• Surface Tension in a Reactive Binary Mixture of Incompressible Fluids
  2000 Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 14-16, 2000
  
 
• Surface Tension in a Reactive Binary Mixture of Incompressible Fluids
  IMA Postdoc Seminar, Minneapolis, MN, March 7, 2000
  
 
• Kinetic Schemes and Boundary Conditions for Moment Equations
  Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, February 4, 2000
  
 
• Kinetic Schemes and Boundary Conditions for Moment Equations in the Kinetic Theory of Gases
  IMA Postdoc Seminar, Minneapolis, MN, October 19, 1999
  
 
• An Extended Moment Method for Electrons in Semiconductors
  10th Conference on Waves and Stability in Continuous Media, Vulcano, Italy, June 7-12, 1999
  
 
• An Extended Moment Method for Electrons in Semiconductors
  HK1999 - Joint TMR Conference on Hyperbolic and Kinetic Problems, S. Magherita Ligure (Italy), April 12-16, 1999
 
• The Moment Method for Electrons in Semiconductors
  CIRAM, Università di Bologna, Italy, March 17, 1999
  
 
• Kinetic Schemes and Boundary Conditions for Moment Equations
  Workshop on Mathematical Approaches to the Continuum Mechanics of Fluids and Solids, Wahlen (Odenwald), Germany, December 19-22, 1998 

• An Extended Moment Method in Radiative Transfer: The Matrices of Mean Absorption and Scattering Coefficients
  Department of Physics, Universitat Autònoma di Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, December 15, 1998 

• A Minimax Principle for the Local Entropy Production
  Department of Physics, Universitat Autònoma di Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, December 14, 1998 

• Kinetic Schemes und Randbedingungen für Momentengleichungen
  Thermodynamisches Seminar, TU Berlin, Germany, November 17, 1998 

• On Boundary Conditions for Moment Equations
  Erwin Schrödinger Institut, Wien, Austria, October 3-17, 1998 

• A Minimax Principle for the Local Entropy Production
  CIME Session on Mathematical Problems in Semiconductor Physics, Cetraro, Italy, July 15-22, 1998 

• Stationary Heat Transfer in Extended Thermodynamics
  Workshop on Mathematical Approaches to the Continuum Mechanics of Fluids and Solids, Wahlen (Odenwald), Germany, February 15-18, 1998 

• Boundary Conditions in Stationary Extended Thermodynamics
  Workshop on Extended Thermodynamics and Hyperbolic Systems, Institut für Verfahrenstechnik der TU Berlin, Germany, January 19-21, 1998 

• The BGK Model with velocity-dependent Collision Frequency
  9th Conference on Waves and Stability in Continuous Media, Bari, Italy, October 6-11, 1997 

• Energietransport in Kristallen bei tiefen Temperaturen
  Kolloquium über Mechanik, TH Darmstadt, Germany, May 15, 1997 

• An Extended Moment Method in Radiative Transfer:
  The Matrices of Mean Absorption and Scattering Coefficients
  Thermodynamische Materialtheorie, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany, September 22-28, 1996 

• The Moment Method in Radiative Transfer
  Symposium on Trends in Applications of Mathematics to Mechanics (STAMM 96), Warsaw, Poland, September 2-7, 1996
 
• A New Moment Method in Radiation Thermodynamics
  8th Conference on Waves and Stability in Continuous Media, Palermo, Italy, October 9-14, 1995

• On the Number of Field Equations in Extended Thermodynamics of Photons
  7th Conference on Waves and Stability in Continuous Media, Bologna, Italy, October 4-9, 1993