International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics
- Start Date: 07/10/2016
- End Date: 07/14/2016
University of Victoria
Rarefied Gas Dynamics (RGD) is a multidisciplinary field encompassing atomic and molecular physics, mathematics and computer simulation techniques. Its foundations trace back to the fathers of statistical mechanics, Ludwig Boltzmann and James Clerk Maxwell who opened a new path and established a link between the microscopic and macroscopic worlds.
Today, RGD is a fully mature discipline which not only provides a continuous source of challenging mathematical problems but also the basis for many applications including high altitude flight, plasma physics, microfluidics, gas-surface interaction, and many more.
About the RGD symposium:
The first symposium took place in Nice in 1958. Since then, researchers in the field meet every other year, alternating between Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.
Henning Struchtrup, University of Victoria
Andrew Ketsdever, University of Colorado
Bernie Shizgal, University of British Columbia
