Computer Simulations of Dislocations

Vasily Bulatov, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California,Wei Cai, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Vasily V Bulatov, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Education:
B. Sc., theoretical physics, Moscow Physical Engineering Inst. (1979)
Ph. D., materials physics, USSR Academy of Sciences (1986)

Appointments:
Senior scientist, Inst. of Chemical Physics, Moscow (1997)
Research scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990-1998)
Visiting scientist, Harvard University (1996-1997)
Staff scientist, senior scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1999-present)

Awards:
William and Mary Greve Foundation fellow (1990),
Alcoa Foundation Award (1996), UK Institute of Physics fellow (2001)

Wei Cai, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Education:
B.Sc., optoelectronics, Huazhong University, PRC (1995)
Ph. D., nuclear engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001)

Appointments:
Lawrence Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2001-2004)
Assistant Professor, Stanford University (2004-present)

Awards:

Manson Benedict Fellow, Department of Nuclear Engineering, MIT (1999)
Graduate Student Award, Materials Research Society (2000)
The Lawrence Fellowship, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2001)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2004)
Frederick E. Terman Fellowship, Stanford University (2004-2007)

1. Introduction to Crystal Dislocations
Part I: Atomistic Models
2. Fundamentals of Atomistic Simulations
3. Case Study of Static Simulation
4. Case Study of Dynamic Simulation
5. More about Periodic Boundary Conditions
6. Free-energy Calculations
7. Finding Transition Pathways
Part II: Continuum Models
8. Peierls-Nabarro model of dislocations
9. Kinetic Monte Carlo method
10. Line Dislocation Dynamics
11. Phase Field method