Stochastic field theory of viscoelastic solids: a quantitative study of phononic friction

I develop theories to understand friction of a small object on a viscoelastic solid. This involves analyzing phonon modes in the sample solid using analytic and numerical methods. I published 2 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and two more papers are either submitted or ready to be submitted. You can find the articles here, here, and here.

• Molecular Dynamics Simulations
• Stochastic Differential Equations
• Brownian Motion
• LAMMPS
• Data Visualization