Thomas Ihle

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany (1996)
Thesis: Growth patterns under diffusional transport (Advisor: H. Müller-Krumbhaar)
M.S., Theoretical Physics, Universität Leipzig, 1992
Thesis: Dynamics of the phase boundary during solidification: Influence of crystalline anisotropy

Department of Physics
South Engineering 212A
NDSU
Fargo, ND 58105
Tel: (701) 231-7045 or 231-8974
Fax: (701) 231-7088
thomas.ihle++ndsu.edu


TEACHING


RESEARCH INTERESTS


JOBS


PUBLICATIONS

Mesoscopic modeling of fluid flow: colloids, polymers, microemulsions

31. T. Ihle, " Transport coefficients of multi-particle collision algorithms with velocity-dependent collision rules ", submitted to J. Phys.: Condens. Matter (2008).

30. G. Gompper, T. Ihle, D.M. Kroll, and R.G. Winkler, " Multi-Particle Collision Dynamics --- a Particle-Based Mesoscale Simulation Approach to the Hydrodynamics of Complex Fluids ", submitted to Advances in Polymer Science (2008).

29. T. Ihle, E. Tuzel, " Static and dynamic properties of a particle-based algorithm for non-ideal fluids and binary mixtures ", cond-mat/0610350, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics (2008), in press.

28. E. Tuzel, G. Pan, T. Ihle, D.M. Kroll, " Mesoscopic model for the fluctuating hydrodynamics of binary and ternary mixtures ", Europhys. Lett. 80 (2007) 40010.

27. E. Tuzel, T. Ihle, D.M. Kroll, "Constrained dynamics for polymers in an SRD solvent ", unpublished report (2006).

26. E. Tuzel, T. Ihle, D.M. Kroll, "Dynamic correlations in stochastic rotation dynamics ", cond-mat/0606628, Phys. Rev. E 74 (2006) 056702.

25. E. Tuzel, T. Ihle, D.M. Kroll, "Constructing thermodynamically consistent models with a non-ideal equation of state ", cond-mat/0511312, Math. and Comput. in Simul. 72 (2006) 232.

24. T. Ihle, E. Tuzel, D.M. Kroll, "Consistent particle-based algorithm with a non-ideal equation of state ", cond-mat/0509631, Europhys. Lett. 73 (2006) 664.

23. T. Ihle, E. Tuzel, D.M. Kroll, "Equilibrium calculation of transport coefficients for a fluid-particle model", Phys. Rev. E 72 (2005) 046707.

22. M. Hecht, J. Harting, T. Ihle, H.J. Herrmann, "Simulation of Claylike Colloids", Phys. Rev. E 72 (2005) 011408.

21. T. Ihle, E. Tuzel, D.M. Kroll, "Resummed Green-Kubo relations for a fluctuating fluid-particle model", Phys. Rev. E 70 (2004) 035701.

20. E. Tuzel, M. Strauss, T. Ihle, D.M. Kroll, "Transport Coefficients in three dimensional Stochastic Rotation Dynamics", Phys. Rev. E 68 (2003) 036701.

19. T. Ihle, D.M. Kroll, "Stochastic Rotation Dynamics II: Transport coefficients, numerics, long time tails", Phys. Rev. E 67 (2003) 066706.

18. T. Ihle, D.M. Kroll, "Stochastic Rotation Dynamics I: Formalism, Galilean invariance, Green-Kubo relations", Phys. Rev. E 67 (2003) 066705.

17. A. Lamura, G. Gompper, T. Ihle, D.M. Kroll, "Multi-particle collision dynamics: Flow around a circular and a square cylinder", Europhys. Lett. 56 (2001) 319; and 768.

16. T. Ihle, and D.M. Kroll, "Stochastic Rotation Dynamics: A Galilean-Invariant Mesoscopic Model for Fluid Flow", Phys. Rev. E 63 (2001) 20201(R).

15. T. Ihle, and D.M. Kroll, "Thermal Lattice-Boltzmann method for non-ideal gases with potential energy", Comp. Phys. Commun. 129 (2000) 1.

Molecular beam epitaxy, vicinal surfaces

14. H. Emmerich, C. Misbah, K. Kassner, and T. Ihle, "Vicinal surfaces: Growth structures close to the instability threshold and far beyond", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 11 (1999) 9985.

13. T. Ihle, C. Misbah, O. Pierre-Louis, "Equilibrium step dynamics on vicinal surfaces revisited", Phys. Rev. B 58 (1998) 2289.

Pattern formation in crystal growth: dendrites, seaweed, doublons

12. T. Ihle, "Competition between kinetic and surface tension anisotropy in dendritic growth", Eur. Phys. J. B 16 (2000) 337.

11. H. Emmerich, K. Kassner, T. Ihle, A. Weiss, "Dynamic simulations of interface morphologies in free dendritic growth", J. Cryst. Growth , 211 (2000) 43.

10. H. Emmerich, D. Schleussner, T. Ihle, K. Kassner, "Confinement effects in dendritic growth", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 11 (1999) 8981.

9. S. Akamatsu and T. Ihle, "A similarity law for the tilt angle of dendrites in directional solidification of non-axially oriented crystals", Phys. Rev. E 56 (1997) 4479.

8. T. Ihle, "Wachstumsmuster unter diffusivem Transport", Reports Research Center Jülich, Jül-3230, May 1996 (in german).

7. T. Ihle and H. Müller-Krumbhaar, "Discontinuous transition between seaweed and chaotic growth morphology", J. Phys. I France 6 (1996) 949.

6. H. Müller-Krumbhaar, M. Zimmer, T. Ihle, Y. Saito, "Morphology and selection processes in diffusion-controlled growth patterns", Physica A 224 (1996) 322.

5. S. Akamatsu, G. Faivre, T. Ihle, " Symmetry-broken double fingers and seaweed patterns in thin-film directional solidification of a non-faceted cubic crystal", Phys. Rev. E 51 (1995) 4751.

4. H. Müller-Krumbhaar, T. Ihle, and A. Bösch, "Spatio-temporal patterns in non-equilibrium complex systems" ed. by P.E. Cladis, and P. Palffy-Muhoray, Proc. ASI-NATO, Santa Fe, 1993 (Addison-Wesley, 1995)

3. E. Brener, T. Ihle, H. Müller-Krumbhaar, Y. Saito, and K. Shiraishi, " Fluctuation effects on dendritic growth morphology", Physica A 204 (1994) 96.

2. T. Ihle and H. Müller-Krumbhaar, "Fractal and compact growth morphologies in phase transitions with diffusion transport", Phys. Rev. E 49 (1994) 2972.

1. T. Ihle and H. Müller-Krumbhaar, "Diffusion-limited fractal growth morphology in thermodynamical two-phase systems", Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 (1993) 3083.


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