Victor Sofonea

Senior Researcher
Laboratory for Numerical Simulation and Parallel Computing in Fluid Mechanics
Romanian Academy
E-mail: sofonea@acad-tim.tm.edu.ro
Page: http://acad-tim.tm.edu.ro/~sofonea

Fields of interest:

Physical properties of magnetic fluids, composites
Computer simulation techniques, numerical methods
Lattice Boltzmann models for complex fluids
Parallel computing

Recent publications (selected):

A.Cristea, G.Gonnella, A.Lamura, V.Sofonea:
A lattice Boltzmann study of phase separation in liquid-vapor systems with gravity,
Communications in Computational Physics 7, (2010),
350.

V.Sofonea:
Implementation of diffuse reflection boundary conditions in a thermal lattice Boltzmann model with flux limiters,
Journal of Computational Physics 228, (2009),
6107.

G.Gonnella, A.Lamura, V.Sofonea:
A lattice Boltzmann method for thermal nonideal fluids,
European Physical Journal – Special Topics 171 (2009), 181-187.

M.Botti, G.Gonnella, A.Lamura, F.Massaioli, V.Sofonea:
A parallel thermal Lattice Boltzmann model with flux limiters for microscale flow,
International Journal of Modern Physics C 19 (2008), 1847-1861.

V.Sofonea:
Discontinuous Galerkin schemes for isothermal lattice Boltzmann models in one dimension,
International Journal of Modern Physics C 19 (2008), 677.

G.Gonnella, A.Lamura, V.Sofonea:
Lattice Boltzmann simulation of thermal nonideal fluids,
Physical Review E 76, (2007), 036703.

V.Sofonea:
Finite difference lattice Boltzmann approach to pressure driven microchannel flow with variable temperature,
Europhysics Letters 76, (2006),
829.

V.Sofonea:
Lattice Boltzmann approach to thermal transpiration,
Physical Review E 74, (2006),
056705.

V. Sofonea, R.F. Sekerka:
Diffuse Reflection Boundary Conditions for a Thermal Lattice Boltzmann Model in Two Dimensions: Evidence of Temperature Jump and Slip Velocity in Microchannels,
Physical Review E, Vol. 71, (2005), 066709.

V. Sofonea, R.F. Sekerka:
Diffusivity of Two – Component Isothermal Finite Difference Lattice Boltzmann,
Models International Journal of Modern Physics C, Vol. 16, (2005), pp. 1075-1090.