Lorena A. Barba Group :: Professor Lorena A Barba’s research group at Boston University.

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Algorithms Fluid Mechanics

HIGH-PERFOMANCE COMPUTING

CFD Immersed Boundary Methods

Biomolecular Physics

GPU Computing

Apply to the @HartreeCentre Summer School "Programming for Petascale", 14–19 July 2013 http://t.co/QM4OoupcLl #HPC @STFC_Matters View // Reply // Retweet // Favorite

The science diasporas lead the action from campus to society

The 2013 Global Diaspora Forum (GDF) in Washington, DC was held 13–14 May at USAID headquarters and the U.S. Department of State. I was invited to be a panelist in "The Science Diasporas Lead the Action: from Campus to Society," joining moderator Alfred Watkins (Executive Chairman of the Global Innovation Summit) and panelists Rohit Shukla (CEO, Larta Institute) Wole Soboyejo (President, African University... Continue »

Five posters at #GTC13 from Mexico & Brazil—Blog: How #GPUs Are Accelerating Scientific Computing in Latin America http://t.co/wY1uqVUvYN View // Reply // Retweet // Favorite

Comment: "Will MOOCs destroy academia?"

Photo credit: Ray Sawhill (2011) on Flickr, Creative Commons CC-BY.

The editorial "Will MOOCs destroy academia?", by Moshe Vardi, appeared in the November 2012 issue of the Communications of the ACM. This is my reaction to that editorial, written at the time the editorial appeared online, with the intention of leaving a comment to it. The comment grew too long, and thus I decided to... Continue »

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PyGBe: Python on the surface, GPUs at the heart. BEM solver for Electrostatics of Biomolecules

Poster presented at the GPU Technology Conference, March 2013, San Jose, CA.

It presents the PyGBe code (pronounced 'pig-bee'), which solves the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equation using a boundary element method, BEM. The underlying dense systems are solved using a Krylov-subspace method, accelerated with... Continue »

Again I say to you, prospective student—If you address your email to me as "Dear Sir", you have no chance. You obviously did not look me up. View // Reply // Retweet // Favorite

Validation of the PyGBe code for Poisson-Boltzmann equation

The PyGBe code solves the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equation using a boundary-integral formulation. We use a boundary element method with a collocation approach, and solve it via a Krylov-subspace method. To do this efficiently, the matrix-vector multiplications in the Krylov iterations are accelerated with... Continue »

Software Carpentry is seeking sponsorship for their Bootcamp for women in science and engineering http://t.co/h7DtR89qey @swcarpentry View // Reply // Retweet // Favorite

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Oh no, I will also miss the session on Integral Equation Methods on Tuesday at 9:30 as I'm in a panel #SIAMCSE13 http://t.co/6dvlNc5DiH View // Reply // Retweet // Favorite

Flying snake wake visualizations

Vorticity field in the wake behind a snake cross-section at a Reynolds number of 2000 and 35-degrees angle of attack.

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Flying snake wake visualizations with cuIBM

These animations show the vortex wake behind a snake cross-section (two-dimensional profile), obtained with full Navier-Stokes simulation. The solver is an immersed boundary method that uses GPU hardware, cuIBM (open-source under the MIT license). The cases shown vary in Reynolds number (Re=1000, 2000) and angle... Continue »

Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman was at UCSB yesterday talking about a scientific approach to #STEM education http://t.co/uZNeqzYA5F #flipclass View // Reply // Retweet // Favorite