François Coppex

Bern / Switzerland. If that's me you're looking for, you are welcome to contact me here.
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Scientific publications

• 2005: Stationary state of a heated granular gas: stability analysis and fate of the usual H-functional (Physica A 370, 179)
• 2005: Maxwell and very hard particle models for probabilistic ballistic annihilation: hydrodynamic description (Phys. Rev. E. 72, 021105)
• 2005: Front motion in an A+B -> C type reaction-diffusion process: Effects of an electric field (J. Chem. Phys. 122, 024512)
• 2004: Hydrodynamics of probabilistic ballistic annihilation (Phys. Rev. E 70, 061102)
• 2004: Lotka-Volterra Model of Macro-Evolution on Dynamical Networks (Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences 3039, p. 742-749, Springer Verlag)
• 2004: Extinction dynamics of Lotka-Volterra ecosystems on evolving networks (Phys. Rev. E 69, 061901)
• 2003: Probabilistic ballistic annihilation with continuous velocity distributions (Phys. Rev. E 69, 011303)
• 2003: Yang-Lee zeros for an urn model for the separation of Sand (Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 160602)
• 2003: On the first Sonine correction for granular gases (Physica A 329, 114)
• 2003: Some exact results for Boltzmann's annihilation dynamics (Phys. Rev. E 67, 021103)
• 2002: Dynamics of the breakdown of granular clusters (Phys. Rev. E 66, 011305) (animations)

Personnal publications

• 2009: Solving the Black-Scholes equation: a demystification (unpublished)
• 2005: On a class of Nonequilibrium Dissipative Systems (Ph.D. Thesis; work material)
• 2005: Single-bubble sonoluminescence (University of Geneva, unpublished)
• 2001: Correlations in Inhomogeneous Plasmas and Forces Between Macroscopic Bodies (EPFL Master Thesis, unpublished)
• 2000-2009: A Physicist's Formulary (unpublished; history of changes)
• 2000: Thermonuclear Fusion (STS projetct, unpublished)
• 1999: Numerical Study of the Air Injection on a Wing Associated Hydrofoil (EPFL Engineer Project, unpublished)

Lecture notes

• 2005: Lecture notes in numerical computational sciences modelization (graduate lecture notes, animation)
• 2005: Lecture notes in Mechanics II (University of Geneva)
• 2001: The Complexity (Post-graduate lectures notes)
• 2001: Lecture notes in Advanced Statistical Mechanics (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
• 1996-2000: EPFL MSc physics graduate lecture notes (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

Misc Javascript implementations

• Mandelbrot set: javascript zoom into the Mandelbrot set
• Monte-Carlo integration: Monte-Carlo integrator with user-defined functions
• Granular matter: molecular dynamics of granular matter for the urn model
• Reaction-diffusion dynamics: two-species 2D annihilation reaction-diffusion dynamics