Flowing Matter

Federico Toschi is full Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology where holds the chair of Computational Physics of Multi-scale Transport Phenomena in the department of Physics and in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.  His current research interest is the statistical physics of complex systems, at the crossroad between complex flows, complex fluids, and active matter. His research activity is based on experiments, observations and, primarily, state-of-the-art large-scale, high-fidelity numerical simulations. His research is embedded in the  4TU Centre of Excellence for Multiscale Phenomena and in the JMBC Burgerscentrum for fluid dynamics, the Eindhoven Multiscale Institute. Toschi has been awarded a number of large scale computational grants (DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative, PRACE). He has been promoting sharing of raw research data, founding the International CFD Database hosted at CINECA (Bologna, Italy), and contributing to establish the Turbase database. He served as chairman of the International Collaboration for Turbulence Research (ICTR, http://www.ictr.eu). He acted as Chair of the COST Action MP0806 on "Particles in turbulence" and is currently chair of the COST Action MP1305 "Flowing matter".

Chapter1. Numerical approaches to complex fluids.- Chapter2. Basic Concepts of Stokes Flows.- Chapter3. Mesoscopic approach to nematic fluids.- Chapter4. Amphiphilic Janus Particles at Interfaces.- Chapter5. Upscaling Flow and Transport Processes.- Chapter6. Recent Developments in Particle Tracking Diagnostics for Turbulence Research.- Chapter7. Numerical simulations of active Brownian particles.- Chapter8. Active fluids within the unified coloured noise approximation.- Chapter9. Quadrature-based lattice Boltzmann models for rarefied gas flow.