Sylvie Aubry

Address:
Mechanics and Computation
Department of Mechanical Engineering
MS 4040
Stanford, California 94305
Phone (w) (650) 723-2173
Email:
sylvie.aubry@stanford.edu
URL:
http://www.stanford.edu/people/sylvie.aubry

Research

My research is concerned with understanding properties of microstructures in metals, alloys and semi-conductors using numerical techniques such as molecular dynamics, Monte-Carlo and optimization. I analyze microstructures at the nano and micro levels in order to reproduce and explain experimental observations. The fundamental questions I want to answer are
What are the relations between microstructures and the mechanical behavior of the material?
How heat transfer is effected by the presence of microstructures and material geometry such as defects, grain boundaries, impurities etc.?
How to improve constitutive equations by incorporating information coming from the atomistic level?