SC 740 Presentation Review
By: Deborah Dent
Computer Simulation Modeling of Electrophoretic Deposition
Presented by: Ras B. Pandey
Department of Computer Science and Statistics
University of Southern Mississippi
Wednesday, December 3, 1997
Dr. Pandey presented very interesting information from research performed on polymer simulations. He introduced some of the fundamentals of computer simulations of the conformation and dynamics of polymer chains in a porous medium. The research was performed on a Cray-YMP and SGI RISC-3000 at MSCR and on IBM RISC-6000 workstations at USM. He presented information on two methods of simulation, lattices and off-lattice. His examples centered around results from a computer simulation model for which he studied sol to gel transition on a simple cubic lattice. He also presented results from a model for electrophoretic deposition answering the questions about how polymer density evolves at or near the surface, and how polymer density depends on molecular weight, temperature and the driving field. His research appears to be very interesting and challenging and worth further investigation.