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Zebadiah M. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute, University of Missouri
Advisor: Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Abstract
The research in progress described in this report involves the modification and application of Green’s function method to model electrostatic interactions between arbitrarily shaped particles. So far the model has been benchmarked against problems in which analytical or numerical solutions already exist. Upon finalizing benchmarking for problems with multiple bodies, the model will be used on larger systems containing non-spherical particles. The results of these simulations will be compared to results using spherical particles of the same sizes and positions to examine the error associated with the use of the spherical particle assumption in current simulations. In addition, the results of many simulations could be used in larger aerosol dynamic simulations to achieve more realistic models.
Zebadiah Smith was born on August 1, 1979 in Columbia, MO. He graduated from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2003 with a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering and received his Master's Degree in Nuclear Engineering in 2005. He is currently a PhD student in the Nuclear Science and Engineering. Zebadiah‘s Career goals include research involving theoretical and computational modeling and teaching.
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