Statistical Mechanics of the Dynamics in Quiescent and Driven Glassy Fluids

科罗拉多州立大学的Grzegorz Szamel获得了理论与计算化学项目的一项奖励，该项目将数值模拟和形式统计力学相结合，研究静态和驱动玻璃态流体的动力学。该研究追求三个目标：1）获得明确的数值预测的相关长度在静止的玻璃流体; 2）开发一个新的理论的玻璃化转变，超越模式耦合理论和3）开发一个理论的波动动力学驱动的玻璃流体。这项工作有助于对剪切流等几种现象的基本理解，这些现象对材料加工非常重要，可以减少缺陷并提高性能。

Grzegorz Szamel of Colorado State University is supported by an award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program to study the dynamics of quiescent and driven glassy fluids, using a combination of numerical simulation and formal statistical mechanics. The research is pursuing three goals: 1) to obtain explicit numerical predictions for the correlation length in quiescent glassy fluids; 2) to develop a new theory for the glass transition that goes beyond mode-coupling theory and 3) to develop a theory for the dynamics of fluctuations in driven glassy fluids. This work is contributing fundamental understanding of several phenomena, such as shear flow, that are important for materials processing leading to fewer defects and better performance.