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Kai Kadau is a German American physicist specializing on high-performance computational modeling.
Career
[edit]Kadau got his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. P. Entel from the University of Duisburg in Germany for a thesis on Atomistic Study of Structural Phase Transitions. [1]
Contributions
[edit]He worked with Berni Alder, the founder of molecular dynamics and an early pioneer of computational physics including Monte Carlo methods, on large scale atomistic modeling of turbulence[2] and nano-hydrodynamics[3].
Other work incudes the microscopic origin of phase transformations of metals under the influence of shock-waves[4] [5] [6], work together with astrophysicist Charles J. Horowitz [7] relating to the enormous strength and the resulting ability of neutron stars to emit measurable gravitational waves[8][9], as well as modeling and understanding mitigation strategies of a potential H5N1 bird flu epidemics [10] .
Kadau contributed to field of probabilistic fracture mechanics by introducing high-performance computing techniques and algorithms allowing for a direct-simulation Monte-Carlo method in the area of probabilistic fracture mechanics [11] [12]
References
[edit]- ^ Kadau, Kai. "Molecular-dynamics simulations of structural phase-transitions in bulk, nanoparticles, and ultra-thin films". PhD Thesis.
- ^ Kadau, Kai; C. Rosenblatt, J.L. Barber, T.C. Germann, Z. Huang, P. Carlès, B.L. Holian, B.J. Alder (2007). "The Importance of Fluctuation in Fluid Mixing". PNAS. 104 (19): 7741–7745. doi:10.1073/pnas.0702871104.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Kadau, Kai; Timothy C. Germann, Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou, Peter S. Lomdahl, Guy Dimonte, Brad Lee Holian, and Berni J. Alder (2004). "Nanohydrodynamics simulations: An atomistic view of the Rayleigh–Taylor instability". PNAS. 101 (16): 5851-5855. doi:10.1073/pnas.0401228101.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Kadau, Kai; T. C. Germann, P. S. Lomdahl, and B. L. Holian (2002). "Microscopic View of Structural Phase Transitions Induced by Shock Waves". Science. 296 (1681): 1681–1684. doi:10.1126/science.1070375.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Kadau, Kai; T.C. Germann, P.S. Lomdahl, R.C. Albers, J.S. Wark, A. Higginbotham, B.L. Holian (2007). "Shock Waves in Polycrystalline Iron". Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (13): 135701. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.135701.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Kadau, Kai; F.J. Cherne, R. Ravelo, T.C. Germann (2013). "Shock-induced phase transformations in gallium single crystals by atomistic methods". Phys. Rev. B. 88 (14): 144108. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.144108.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ http://www.indiana.edu/~iubphys/faculty/horowit.shtml
- ^ Horowitz, C.J.; K. Kadau (2009). "The Breaking Strain of Neutron Star Crust and Gravitational Waves". Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (19): 191102. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.191102.
- ^ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26342-inside-exotic-dead-stars-are-piles-of-waffles/
- ^ Germann, T.C; K. Kadau, I. M. Longini, C.A. Macken (2006). "Mitigation strategies for pandemic influenza in the United States". PNAS. 103 (15): 5935–5940. doi:10.1073/iti1506103.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ US patent 9280620, C. Amann & P.W. Gravett, and K. Kadau, "Method and system for probabilistic fatigue crack life estimation", assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- ^ C. Amann; K. Kadau. "Numerically efficient modified Runge–Kutta solver for fatigue crack growth analysis". Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 161: 55–62.