Mendoza Jimenez, Miller, Dr.

Research

At the moment, i am interested in relativistic hydrodynamics, complex fluids, plasmas physics, and density functional theory (DFT). On the other hand, i am also working in problems related with the penetration of adhesives in anisotropic porous media, including wood, and in the measurement of mechanical properties of wood junctions.

Some Movies and Images

Electronic flow in graphene passing through a constriction. In this video we can see the differences between non-relativistic and relativistic vortex shedding formation.

Relativistic shock wave, generated by a gamma-ray burst or X-ray flash supernova explosion, impacting on a massive interstellar cloud at beta=0.5. Here the streamlines represent the velocity field, and the colors the pressure. The simulation was implemented on a grid size of 200x100x100 cells.

Publications

This is the list of my publications sorted by topics:

Non-relativistic Lattice Boltzmann Methods

• M. Mendoza, and J.D. Muñoz, Three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann model for magnetic reconnection. Phys. Rev. E 77, 026713 (2008)
• M. Mendoza, and J.D. Muñoz, Three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann model for electrodynamics. Phys. Rev. E 82, 056708 (2010)
• M. Mendoza and Jose Daniel Muñoz, A Reliable Lattice-Boltzmann Solver for Electrodynamics: New Applications in Non-linear Media, PIERS Proceedings, 1632 - 1636, March 20-23, Marrakesh, MOROCCO (2011)
• M. Mendoza, S. Succi, and H. J. Herrmann, Lattice kinetic simulations of the Taylor-Couette instability for fluid flows in curvilinear geometries. Review process

Relativistic Lattice Boltzmann Methods

• M. Mendoza, B. M. Boghosian, H. J. Herrmann, and S. Succi, Fast Lattice Boltzmann Solver for Relativistic Hydrodynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 014502 (2010)
• M. Mendoza, B. M. Boghosian, H. J. Herrmann, and S. Succi, Derivation of the lattice Boltzmann model for relativistic hydrodynamics, Phys. Rev. D 82, 105008 (2010)
• P. Romatschke, M. Mendoza, S. Succi, Fully relativistic lattice Boltzmann algorithm, Phys. Rev. C 84, 034903 (2011).
• D. Hupp, M. Mendoza, S. Succi, H. J. Herrmann, Relativistic lattice Boltzmann method for quark-gluon plasma simulations, Phys. Rev. D 84, 125015 (2011)
• M. Mendoza, I. Karlin, S. Succi, H. J. Herrmann, Relativistic lattice Boltzmann model with improved dissipation, Phys. Rev. D 87, 065027 (2013)
• F. Mohseni, M. Mendoza, S. Succi, H. J. Herrmann, Relativistic lattice Boltzmann model for ultra-relativistic flows, Phys. Rev. D 87, 083003 (2013)

Wood Physics

• M. Mendoza, F. K. Wittel and H. J. Herrmann, Simulation of flow of mixtures through anisotropic porous media using a lattice Boltzmann model. Euro. Phys. Journal E, Volume 32, Number 4, 339-348 (2010).
• Miller Mendoza, Philipp Hass, Falk K. Wittel, Peter Niemz, Hans J. Herrmann, Adhesive Penetration of Hard Wood: A Generic Penetration Model, Wood Science and Technology (May 15th 2011).
• Philipp Hass, Falk Wittel, Miller Mendoza, Hans Herrmann, Peter Niemz, Adhesive penetration in beech wood: experiments, Wood Science and Technology (March 5th 2011), pp. 1-14.
• Philipp Hass, Falk Wittel, Miller Mendoza, Hans Herrmann, Peter Niemz, Inverse determination of effective mechanical properties of adhesive bondlines, European Journal of Wood and Wood Products (5 July 2012)

Nanophysics

• M. Mendoza, H. J. Herrmann, and S. Succi, Preturbulent Regimes in Graphene Flow, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 156601 (2011)
• M. Mendoza, H. J. Herrmann, and S. Succi, Hydrodynamic model for Conductivity in Graphene, Sci. Rep. 3, 1052 (2013)
• S. Palpacelli, M. Mendoza, H. J. Herrmann, and S. Succi, Klein Tunneling in the presence of random impurities, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 23, 12 (2012)
• D. Oettinger, M. Mendoza, H. J. Herrmann, Gaussian Quadrature and Lattice Discretization of the Fermi-Dirac Distribution for Graphene, Review process.

Relativistic Kinetic Theory

• Mendoza, M., Araújo, N.A.M., Succi, S. & Herrmann, H.J. Transition in the Equilibrium Distribution Function of Relativistic Particles. Sci. Rep. 2, 611; DOI:10.1038/srep00611 (2012).
• M. Mendoza, I. Karlin, S. Succi, H. J. Herrmann, Ultrarelativistic transport coefficients in two dimensions. J. Stat. Mech. (2013) P02036

Density Functional Theory

• M. Mendoza, S. Succi, and H. J. Herrmann. Kinetic Kohn-Sham Equations for ab initio Calculations. Preprint.