[Numerical Methods for Physics] [Alejandro L. Garcia] Illustration by Charlene Fleming

Alejandro Garcia's Home Page

As a retired university professor and a research scientist, I spend much of my time distributing information. The purpose of this site is to do this more efficiently. You'll also find some personal items, such as paintings, prints, and sketchbook drawings.

What's New ?

Books:
* Essentials of Modern Thermodynamics is now available on Amazon. Supplemental materials available on Github.

Workshops:
* DSMC23 workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, September 24-27, 2023. (Website)

Recent Talks:
* "DSMC: A Statistical Mechanics Perspective", G.A. Bird Plenary Lecture, 33rd International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Gottingen, Germany, July 15-19, 2024 (Slides)
* "Fluctuating Hydrodynamics for Fun and Profit", 22nd Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 24-28, 2024 (Slides)

Recent Preprints and Papers:
* "DSMC: A Statistical Mechanics Perspective", AL Garcia, arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.07785 (2025).
* "Molecular Fluctuations Inhibit Intermittency in Compressible Turbulence", I Srivastava, AJ Nonaka, W Zhang, AL Garcia, JB Bell, arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06396 (2025).
* "A Study of Spherical and Sessile Droplet Dynamics by Fluctuating Hydrodynamics", JB Bell, A Nonaka, AL Garcia, Phys. Fluids DOI: 10.1063/5.0249847 (2025).
* "Thermodynamic consistency and fluctuations in mesoscopic stochastic simulations of reactive gas mixtures", M Polimeno, C Kim, F Blanchette, I Srivastava, AL Garcia, AJ Nonaka, JB Bell, arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.07048 (2024).
* "Temporal reversibility of reactive systems out of equilibrium: Molecular dynamics simulation", O Politano, AL Garcia, F Baras, MM Mansour, arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.19578 (2024).
*"An Introduction to Computational Fluctuating Hydrodynamics", AL Garcia, JB Bell, A Nonaka, I Srivastava, D Ladiges, C Kim, arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.12157 (2024).
* "Comment on "Brownian motion of droplets induced by thermal noise", J.B. Bell, A. Nonaka, A.L. Garcia, arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.01444 (2024).

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