ARC Complex Open Systems Research Network

Dr Federico Frascoli

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Address: Brain Dynamics Unit Brain Science Institute Faculty of Life and Social Sciences Swinburne University of Technology PO Box 218 Hawthorn, Victoria 3122 Australia Phone: +61 3 9214 5595 Fax: +61 3 9214 4397 Email: ffrascoli@swin.edu.au Research Node: VIC-2

 

Role in Network

Academic - Researcher

COSNet Research Themes

1. Irreversibility and Emergence in Nonequilibrium Systems
3. Dynamics and Statistics of Multi-Scale Systems
4. Network Theory

COSNet Application Areas

1. Complex Physical Systems
2. Complex Biological Systems

 

Research Topics

Multistability and bifurcations in models of EEG mammalian neocortex
Stationarity and Nonlinearity neurobiological models
Stochastic processes and Noise in Brain models
Chaos and transport phenomena in liquid systems
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Fluctuation Theorems  

Publications

F. Frascoli, D.J. Searles and B.D. Todd, “Chaotic properties of planar elongational flow and planar shear flow: Lyapunov exponents, conjugate-pairing rule, and phase space contraction”, Phys. Rev. E 73, 046206 (2006).

F. Frascoli and B.D. Todd, “Molecular dynamics simulation of planar elongational flow at constant pressure and constant temperature”, J. Chem. Phys. 126, 044506 (2007). Selected for the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, 13, vol. 3.

F. Frascoli, B.D. Todd and D.J. Searles, “Boundary condition independence of molecular dynamics simulations of planar elongational flow”, Phys. Rev. E 75, 066702 (2007).

F. Frascoli, D.J. Searles and B.D. Todd, “Chaotic properties of isokinetic-isobaric atomic systems under planar shear and elongational flows”, submitted to Phys. Rev. E.


 

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