Recent NEWS


  • (Jan. 20th 2012) Postdoctoral position available in research group starting summer or fall of 2012, see job add.
  • (Jan. 11th 2012) A. Donev is awarded the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program award, see announcement at:
    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/afoo-aag011112.php
  • (June 2011) A. Donev is awarded a three-year NSF grant DMS-1115341 by the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation.

Recent PAPERs and preprints


  1. "Staggered Schemes for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics", F. Balboa and J. Bell and R. Delgado-Buscalioni and A. Donev and T. Fai and B. Griffith and C. Peskin, submitted, 2011 [arXiv:1108.5188].
  2. "Diffusive Transport Enhanced by Thermal Velocity Fluctuations", A. Donev, A. de la Fuente, J. B. Bell, and A. L. Garcia, Phys. Rev. Lett., 106:204501, 2011 [ArXiv:1103.5532]. For more technical details, see longer paper "Enhancement of Diffusive Transport by Nonequilibrium Thermal Fluctuations", A. Donev, A. de la Fuente, J. B. Bell, and A. L. Garcia, to appear in J. Stat. Mech., P06014, 2011, [arXiv:1103.5244].
  3. "On the Accuracy of Explicit Finite-Volume Schemes for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics", by A. Donev, E. Vanden-Eijnden, A. L. Garcia, and J. B. Bell, Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 5(2):149-197, 2010 [arXiv:0906.2425].
  4. "A hybrid particle-continuum method for hydrodynamics of complex fluids", by A. Donev and J. B. Bell and A. L. Garcia and B. J. Alder, SIAM J. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 8(3):871-911, 2010 [arXiv:0910.3968].
  5. "A First-Passage Kinetic Monte Carlo Algorithm for Complex Diffusion-Reaction Systems", by A. Donev, V. V. Bulatov, T. Oppelstrup, G. H. Gilmer, B. Sadigh and M. H. Kalos, J. Comp. Phys., 229(9):3214-3236, 2010 [arXiv:0905.3576].

Selected Recent Presentations



  1. "Stochastic Simulation of Complex Fluid Flows", talk at the Workshop on Multiscale Modeling in Soft Condensed Matter held at the KITP institute, UCSB, April 2012. Some movies can be found here.
  2. "Numerical Methods for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics", talk at Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers-Camden, November 2011.
  3. "Coupling a Fluctuating Fluid with Suspended Particles", presentation at the CECAM workshop "Multiscale Modeling of Simple and Complex Liquid Flow Using Particle-Continuum Hybrids", Zaragoza, Spain, October 2011.
  4. "Diffusive Transport Enhanced by Thermal Velocity Fluctuations", seminar at U.N.E.D., Madrid, Spain, October 2011 and also minisymposium on Fluctuating Hydrodynamics, ICIAM 2011, Vancouver, Canada, July 2011.
  5. "A Hybrid Particle-Continuum Method Coupling a Fluctuating Fluid with Suspended Structures", plenary talk at the AMS von Neumann Symposium, Snowbird, Utah, July 6th 2011.
  6. "Finite-Volume Schemes for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics", Courant Numerical Analysis Seminar, March 2011.
  7. "An Event-Driven Kinetic Monte Carlo Algorithm for Reaction-Diffusion Systems", Courant Graduate Student Seminar, December 2010.