Dr. Miller Mendoza

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Research

My research interests cover many areas related with fluid dynamics, e.g. plasma physics, solar physics, relativistic hydrodynamics, strongly coupled fluids (quark-gluon plasma, electronic transport in graphene, spin liquids), super-fluidity, flow in curved spaces and confined geometries, and turbulence. On the other hand, i am also involved in problems related with the penetration of adhesives in anisotropic porous media, including wood, and in the measurement of mechanical properties of wood junctions.

For a detailed curriculum vitae click here. ResearcherID: external page G-9999-2011.

Some Movies and Images

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Electronic flow in graphene passing through a constriction. In this video we can see the differences between non-relativistic and relativistic vortex shedding formation.

Relativistic shock wave, generated by a gamma-ray burst or X-ray flash supernova explosion, impacting on a massive interstellar cloud at beta=0.5. Here the streamlines represent the velocity field, and the colors the pressure. The simulation was implemented on a grid size of 200x100x100 cells.

Selected Publications

M. Mendoza, B. M. Boghosian, H. J. Herrmann, and S. Succi, Fast Lattice Boltzmann Solver for Relativistic Hydrodynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 014502 (2010).
M. Mendoza, H. J. Herrmann, and S. Succi, Preturbulent Regimes in Graphene Flow, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 156601 (2011).
F. Fillion-Gourdeau, H. J. Herrmann, M. Mendoza, S. Palpacelli, and S. Succi. Formal analogy between the Dirac equation in its Majorana form and the discrete-velocity version of the Boltzmann kinetic equation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 160602 (2013).
M. Mendoza, S. Succi, and H. J. Herrmann. Kinetic formulation of the Kohn-Sham Equations for ab-initio electronic structure calculations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 096402 (2014).
M. Mendoza, A. Kaydul, L. de Arcangelis, J. S. Andrade Jr., and H. J. Herrmann. Modelling the influence of photospheric turbulence on solar flare statistics. Nat. Commun. 5:5035 doi: 10.1038/ncomms6035 (2014).

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