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Monday 23 Oct 2017: MULTIGRAIN...no, it's not a new brand of breakfast cereal
Dr. Mark Hutchison -
Physics 4th Floor 11:00-12:00
I will present a new algorithm, MULTIGRAIN, for modelling the dynamics of an entire population of small dust grains immersed in gas, typical of conditions that are found in molecular clouds and protoplanetary discs. The MULTIGRAIN method is more accurate than single-phase simulations because the gas experiences a back-reaction from each dust phase and communicates this change to the other phases, thereby indirectly coupling the dust phases together. The MULTIGRAIN method is fast, explicit and requires less memory than simulating individual dust phases in separate simulations.
