Chris H. Rycroft
Morrey Assistant Professor
UC Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Journal publications
- C. H. Rycroft, M. Z. Bazant, J. W. Landry, and G. S. Grest,
Dynamics of Random Packings in Granular Flow, Phys. Rev. E 73, 051306 (2006).
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- C. H. Rycroft, G. S. Grest, J. W. Landry, and M. Z. Bazant, Analysis of
Granular Flow in a Pebble-Bed Nuclear Reactor, Phys. Rev. E 74, 021306 (2006).
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- K. Kamrin, C. H. Rycroft, and M. Z. Bazant, The Stochastic Flow
Rule: A Multi-Scale Model for Granular Plasticity, Modelling Simul.
Mater. Sci. Eng. 15, S449–S464 (2007).
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- C. H. Rycroft, K. Kamrin, and M. Z. Bazant, Assessing continuum
relationships in simulations of granular flow, J. Mech. Phys. Solids.
57, 828–839 (2009). [More information]
- C. H. Rycroft, A. V. Orpe, and A. Kudrolli, Physical test of a
particle simulation model in a sheared granular system,
Phys. Rev. E. 80, 031305 (2009). [More information]
- C. H. Rycroft, Voro++: A three-dimensional Voronoi cell library in C++,
Chaos 19, 041111 (2009).
- C. H. Rycroft, Y. Wong, and M. Z. Bazant, Fast spot-based
multiscale simulations of granular flow, Powder Technol. 200,
1–11 (2010). [More information]
- T. F. Willems, C. H. Rycroft, M. Kazi, J. C. Meza, and M.
Haranczyk, Algorithms and tools for high-throughput geometry-based
analysis of crystalline porous materials, Microporous and
Mesoporous Materials 149, 134–141 (2012).
- C. H. Rycroft and F. Gibou, Simulations of a stretching bar using
a plasticity model from the shear transformation zone theory,
J. Comp. Phys. 231, 2155–2179 (2012).
- L.-C. Lin, A. H. Berger, R. L. Martin, J. Kim, J. A. Swisher, K.
Jariwala, C. H. Rycroft, A. S. Bhown, M. W. Deem, M. Haranczyk, and B.
Smit, In Silico Screening of Carbon Capture Materials, accepted
in Nature Materials.
- M. Theillard, C. H. Rycroft, and F. Gibou, A multigrid method on non-graded adaptive octree/quadtree cartesian grids, in review.
- K. Kamrin, C. H. Rycroft, and J.-C. Nave, Reference map technique for finite-strain elasticity and fluid–solid interaction, submitted to J. Mech. Phys. Solids.
- G. Venugopalan, D. Camarillo, C. H. Rycroft, K. Webster, C. Reber, H. El-Samad, J. A. Sethian, V. Weaver, and D. Fletcher, Altered mechanical response of breast epithelia in cancer progression, in preparation.
- C. H. Rycroft, T. Lind, S. Güntay, and A. Dehbi, Granular flow in pebble-bed nuclear reactors: Scaling, Dust Generation, and Stress, in preparation.
- C. H. Rycroft and J. Wilkening, Smooth, time-periodic Solutions of the 1-D compressible Euler equations on a spatially periodic domain, in preparation.
- C. H. Rycroft and J. Wilkening, Computation of three-dimensional standing water waves, in preparation.
News articles
- M. Haranczyk, C. H. Rycroft, and J. A. Sethian, Empty Space and New Materials: Computational Tools for Porous Materials, SIAM News 44, Issue 8, October 2011.
- Computing Tools Speed Search for New Porous Materials, LBL Computational Research Division News, Novemeber 14, 2011.
- Carbon Dioxide Catchers, LBL Computational Research Division News, February 29, 2012.
Conference publications
- C. H. Rycroft, T. Lind, S Güntay, and A. Dehbi, Granular flows in pebble bed reactors: dust generation and scaling, submitted to ICAPP 2012.
- T. Lind, S. Güntay, A. Dehbi, Y. Liao, and C. H. Rycroft, PSI
Project on HTR Dust Generation and Transport, submitted to
HTR 2010.
- C. H. Rycroft, M. Koeppe, and F. Lam, Recombination Lower Bounds
for Missing and Circular Data: A Branch and Bound Approach,
submitted to RECOMB 2010.
Technical reports
- C. H. Rycroft, K. Kamrin, and M. Z. Bazant, Defining and testing a
granular continuum element, July 1st 2008, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, Paper LBNL-63631.
- C. H. Rycroft, Voro++: a three-dimensional Voronoi cell library in C++, January 23rd 2009, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Paper LBNL-1430E, available on the Voro++ website.
PhD thesis
- C. H. Rycroft, Multiscale modeling in granular flow,
submitted to MIT, September 2007.
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