George E M Karniadakis

Research Scientist

Primary DLC

Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT Room: NW98-180

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Nanofluidics and Stochastic MD
Modeling Uncertainty with Polynomial Chaos Parallel Scientific Computing
Stability of Noisy Dynamical Systems
Low Dimensional Modeling
High-Order and Discontinuous Galerkin Methods on Unstructured Meshes Drag Reduction
DNS/LES of Turbulence in Complex Geometries Flow-Structure Interactions
Micro-Transport and Microfabrication
Flow and Heat Control Applications
Interactive/Virtual Reality Computer Graphics

Research Summary

Karniadakis' research interests include diverse topics in computational science both on algorithms and applications. A main current thrust is stochastic simulations and multiscale modeling of physical and biological systems (especially the brain). Read here about the exciting field of "New Biology" described by the National Research Council (2009).

Particular aspects include:
(*) Numerical solution of stochastic differential equations: SISC article, PNAS article
(*) Modeling uncertainty with polynomial chaos: PNAS article, CiSE
(*) Biophysics - Multiscale modeling of biological systems: PNAS article, PRL article, PRS article
(*) Atomistic/Mesoscopic modeling - Dissipative Particle Dynamics: PRL article
(*) Low Dimensional Modeling - Gappy Data - Data assimilation: JCP article

Ongoing Interests
(*) Spectral/hp Element and Discontinuous Galerkin methods : OUP Book
(*) Turbulent Drag Reduction: Science article
(*) DNS/LES of turbulence in complex geometries: JFM article
(*) Flow-structure interactions: PRL article
(*) Micro-transport and Dynamic self-assembly: Springer Book
(*) Flow and heat control applications: JFM article
(*) Parallel computing; Interactive/virtual reality computer graphics: CUP Book

Recent Work