Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Room 3-364
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-452-2280
Fax: 617-258-5802
Email: ngh@mit.edu
Web: http://www.mitnonlinear.com/

Administrative Contact:
Deborah A. Alibrandi
Room 3-360
Phone: 617-253-2883
Email: deborah@mit.edu

Research Interests
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Statistical Mechanics, Molecular Methods in Mechanics, Hybrid Atomistic-Continuum methods, Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics, Kinetic theory

Educational Background
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1998.
SM in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998
MA in Engineering Cambridge University, U.K, 1997
SM in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,1995
BA in Engineering, Cambridge University, U.K., 1993

Selected Publications
1. Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Analysis of Discretization in the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo. Physics of Fluids, 12, 2634-2638, 2000.pdf reprint

2. Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Sound Wave Propagation in Transition-regime Micro and Nano Channels. Physics of Fluids, 14, 802-809, 2002.pdf reprint

3. Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Simek, O. Constant-wall-temperature Nusselt Number in Micro and Nano Channels. Journal of Heat Transfer , 124, 356-364, 2002.pdf reprint
4. Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Simek, O. Sound propagation at small scales under continuum and non-continuum transport. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 488, 399-408, 2003.pdf reprint
5. Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Comment on Cercignani's Second-Order Slip Coefficient. Physics of Fluids, 15, 2352-2354, 2003.
6. He, G., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G. A Molecular View of Tanner's Law: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Droplet Spreading. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 497, 123-132, 2003.

7. Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Garcia, A.L., Bazant, M.Z., He, G. Statistical Error in Particle Simulations of Hydrodynamic Phenomena. Journal of Computational Physics, 187, 274-297, 2003.pdf reprint

8. Wijesinghe, H.S., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G. Discussion of hybrid atomistic continuum methods for multiscale hydrodynamics. Special Issue on Multiscale Methods for Emerging Technologies in the International Journal of Multiscale Computational Engineering, 3, 189-202, 2004.
9. Kadau, K., Germann, T.C., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Lomdahl, P.S., Dimonte, G., Holian, B.L., Alder, B.J. Nanohydrodynamics Simulations: An Atomistic View of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 5851-5855, 2004. Recommended to the Journal Club of Condensed Matter Physics.
10. Wijesinghe, H.S., Hornung, R., Garcia, A.L., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G. Three-Dimensional Hybrid Continuum-Atomistic Simulations for Multiscale Hydrodynamics. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 126, 768-777, 2004.pdf reprint
11. Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Validation of a Second-Order Slip Model for Dilute Gas Flows. Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, 9, 137-153, 2005.
12. Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Al-Mohssen, H.A. A Linearized Kinetic Formulation Including a Second-Order Slip Model for an Impulsive Start Problem at Arbitrary Knudsen Numbers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 533, 47-56, 2005.pdf reprint
13. Baker, L.L., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G. Variance Reduction for Monte Carlo Solutions of the Boltzmann Equation. Physics of Fluids, 17, 051703, 1-4, 2005.pdf reprint
14. Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Oscillatory Shear-Driven Gas Flows in the Transition and Free-Molecular-Flow Regimes. Physics of Fluids, 17, 100611, 1-9, 2005.pdf reprint
15. Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., The Limits of Navier-Stokes Theory and Kinetic Extensions for Describing Small Scale Gaseous Hydrodynamics. Physics of Fluids, 18, 111301, 2006. pdf reprint
16. Homolle, T.M.M., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Low-variance Deviational Simulation Monte Carlo. Physics of Fluids, 19, 041701, 2007.pdf reprint

17. Homolle, T.M.M., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., A Low-variance Deviational Simulation Monte Carlo for the Boltzmann Equation. Journal of Computational Physics, 226, 2341-2358, 2007. pdf reprint

18. Manela, A., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., On the Motion Induced in a Gas Confined in a Small-scale Gap Due to Instantaneous Heating. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 593, 453--462, 2007.pdf reprint

19. Baker, L. L. Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Variance-Reduced Particle Methods for Solving the Boltzmann Equation. Journal of Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience, 5, 165-174, 2008.

20. Manela, A., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Gas Motion Induced by Unsteady Boundary Heating. Physics of Fluids, 20, 117104, 2008.pdf reprint

21. Baker, L.L., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Variance-reduced Monte Carlo Solutions of the Boltzmann Equation for Low-Speed Gas Flows: A Discontinuous Galerkin Formulation. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 58, 381-402, 2008. pdf reprint

22. Radtke G. A., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G., Variance-reduced Particle Simulation of the Boltzmann Transport Equation in the Relaxation-time Approximation, Physical Review E, 79, 056711, 2009.pdf reprint

23. Z. R. Li, G. R. Liu, J. Han, Y. Cheng, Y. Z. Chen, J-S. Wang and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, Analytical Description of Ogston-regime Biomolecule Separation using Nanofilters and Nanopores, Physical Review E, 80, 041911, 2009.pdf reprint