CCS Seminar
Friday - May 9, 2008
Physics Research Building - Room 595
12:00 noon
Simone Melchionna
Visiting Scholar in Applied Physics
Harvard University - Faculty of Arts and Sciences

"From Biopolymer Translocation to Hemodynamics: New Challenges in Multiscale Computing"

Multiscale modelling is the capability of representing different levels of physical phenomena, occurring at diverse spatial and temporal scales, within a unified conceptual framework. A typical example is the behavior of long molecules or nanosuspensions under the action of complex hydrodynamic flows. Our computational work tackles different phenomena such as biopolymer translocation through nanopores and hemodynamics in arteries with a novel computational scheme. The solution of such large scale problems calls for the exploitation of powerful parallel
architectures, such as the Blue Gene supercomputer, to gain insight into the realm of multi-scale phenomena.