RAS B. PANDEY
Professor
Department
of Physics and Astronomy
Telephone: 601 266 4485;
Fax: 601 266 5149; Email: ras.pandey@usm.edu
THESES & DISSERTATION:
o Chaired three MS theses
in Physics (Song-Ping Gao, Sai Yu, Yan He).
Songping
Gao, Thesis: Conductivity of a two-dimensional lattice fluid in a charge density
gradient, 1990. Publication: ‘Transport properties of an
interacting-lattice-gas in a charge density gradient by
Sai Yu, Thesis: Transport properties
of a two-dimensional random percolating system in a charge density gradient,
1990. Publication: ‘A computer-simulation study for the
permeability of an interacting lattice gas through a percolating system’,
R.B. Pandey and
Yan He, Thesis: Monte Carlo studies
of driven diffusive interacting lattice gas, 1993. Publication: ‘Driven
diffusion,
o Chaired six Ph.D.
dissertations (Grace M. Foo, Yimin Liu,
J.L. Becklehimer, Luis Cueva-Parra, Frank Bentrem, Shihai Yang) in
"Scientific Computing”.
Grace M.
Foo
Dissertation: Transport and conformation of driven polymer chains in porous media,
1996.
Publications:
o
Computer simulation
study of the permeability of driven polymers through porous media, G.M. Foo and R.B.
Pandey, Phys. Rev. E 51, 5738 (1995).
o
Dynamics of interacting
polymer chains and solvents, R.B. Pandey, A.T. Bernardes, G.M. Foo, and D. Stauffer, J. Chem. Phys. 105, 1682 (1996).
o
Dynamics and
conformation of polymer chains in a porous medium, G.M. Foo, R.B. Pandey,
and D. Stauffer, Phys. Rev. E 53,
5738 (1996).
o
Conformation and
dynamics of interacting polymer chains in a porous medium, G.M. Foo and R.B.
Pandey, Physica A 241, 500 (1997).
o
Conformation of
interacting polymer chains: effects of temperature, bias, polymer concentration,
and porosity,
G.M. Foo and R.B. Pandey, Phys. Rev. E 55,
4433 (1997).
Yimin Liu
Dissertation:
Computer simulation studies of phase behavior in polymeric
gels,
1997.
Publications:
o
Kinetics of gelation
growth in a sol-gel transition by a computer-simulation model, Y. Liu and R.B.
Pandey, J. Phys. II 4, 865 (1994).
o
Sol-gel transitions in
thermoreversible gels: Onset of gelation and melting, Y. Liu and R.B.
Pandey, J. Chem. Phys. 105, 825
(1996).
o
Inhomogeneity in
gelation and nonuniversality of Sol-to-Gel transition by a computer simulation
model,
Y. Liu and R.B. Pandey, Phys. Rev. E 54,
6609 (1996).
Jeffrey L.
Becklehimer
Dissertation: Hybrid lattice gas
simulations of flow through porous media, 1998
Publications:
o
A computer-simulation
study of sticks percolation, J. Becklehimer and R.B. Pandey, Physica A 187, 71 (1992).
o
Percolation of chains
and jamming coverage in two dimensions by computer-simulation, J.L. Becklehimer and
R.B. Pandey,J. Stat. Phys. 75, 765
(1994).
o
Computer simulation
study of the permeability of a porous sediment model, R.B. Pandey and J.L.
Becklehimer, Phys. Rev. E51, 3341
(1995).
o
A hybrid computer
simulation approach to shock propagation in fluid through porous media, R.B. Pandey and J.L.
Becklehimer, Physica A 219, 121
(1995).
Luis A.
Cueva-Parra
Dissertation:
Multi-component fluid flow through porous media
by interacting lattice gas computer simulation, 2003
Publications:
o
Density Profile and Flow
of Miscible Fluid with Dissimilar Constituent Masses, R.B. Pandey, D.
Stauffer, R. Seyfarth, Luis A. Cueva, J.F. Gettrust, and Warren Wood, Physica A 310, 325 (2002)
o
Self-organized phase
segregation in a driven flow of dissimilar particles mixtures, R.B. Pandey, J.F.
Gettrust, R. Seyfarth, and L.A. Cueva-Parra, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 14, 955 (2003).
Frank W.
Bentrem
Dissertation: Growth of polymer films by driven deposition:
Publications:
o
Roughening,
deroughening, and nonuniversal scaling of the interface width in
electrophoretic deposition of polymer chains,F.W. Bentrem, R.B. Pandey, and F.
Family, Phys. Rev. E 62, 914 (2000).
o
Interface relaxation in
electrophoretic deposition of polymer chains: Effects of segmental dynamics,
molecular weight, and field, Frank W. Bentrem, Jun Xie, and R.B. Pandey, Phys. Rev. E 65, 041606 (2002)
o
Density and conformation
with relaxed substrate, bulk, and interface in electrophoretic deposition of
polymer chains,Frank
W. Bentrem, Jun Xie, and R. B. Pandey, J. Mol. Structure: THEOCHEM 592, 95
(2002)
o
Thermal roughening and
deroughening at polymer interfaces in electrophoretic deposition, Frank W. Bentrem and
R.B. Pandey, Macromolecules 38, 992 (2005)
Shihai
Yang
Dissertation:
Computer
simulation study of waterborne two-component polyurethane film formation, 2007
Publications:
o
Film Growth and Surface
Roughness with Effective Fluctuating Covalent Bonds in Evaporating Aqueous
Solution of Reactive Hydrophobic and Polar Groups: A Computer Simulation Model, Shihai Yang, Adam
Seyfarth, Sam Bateman, and R. B. Pandey, Macromol.
Theory Simul. 15, 263 (2006)
o
Monte Carlo simulation
of a film growth with reactive hydrophobic, polar, and aqueous components by a
covalent bond-fluctuating model, S. Yang and R.B. Pandey, J. Chem. Phys. 126, 174708 (2007)