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Igor V. Pivkin

Brown University

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Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University,

182 George St., Providence, RI 02912

 

(401) 863-3694

(401) 863–2722

www.cfm.brown.edu/people/piv

piv at dam dot brown dot edu

Education

Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Brown University, 2006

Thesis: Algorithms for Continuum and Atomistic Modeling of Blood Platelet Phenomena

 

Sc.M. (Computer Science), Brown University, 2006

Thesis: Visualization and Interpretation of the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of Bat Wing Kinematics

 

Sc.M. (Applied Mathematics), Brown University, 2003

 

Sc.M. (Mathematics), Novosibirsk State University, Russia, 1999

Thesis: Numerical Investigation of the Influence of Wedge Vibration of the Reflection of Strong Shock Waves

 

B.S. with honors (Mathematics), Novosibirsk State University, Russia, 1997

Thesis: Numerical Solution of a Problem of the Penetration of a Blunt Solid Contour into an Ideal and Weakly Compressible Liquid

 

Research Interests

·         coarse-grained molecular simulations

·         spectral/hp element and other high-order methods

·         stochastic multiscale modeling

·         cellular/molecular biomechanics

·         low-dimensional modeling of biological systems

·         high performance computing, scientific visualization

 

Publications

 

Journal Papers

I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, “Blood flow velocity effects and role of activation delay time on growth and form of platelet thrombi”, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 103, pp. 17164-17169, 2006.

 

I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, “Controlling density fluctuations in wall-bounded DPD systems”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 96, p. 206001, 2006.

I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, ``Coarse-graining limits in open and wall-bounded DPD systems", Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 124, p.184101, 2006.

E.E. Keaveny, I.V. Pivkin, M. Maxey, and G.E. Karniadakis, “A comparative study between dissipative particle dynamics and molecular dynamics for simple- and complex-geometry flows”, Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 123, p. 104107, 2005.

I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, “A new method to impose no-slip boundary conditions in dissipative particle dynamics”, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 207, pp. 114-128, 2005.

I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, D.H. Laidlaw, and G.E. Karniadakis, “Combined effects of pulsatile flow and dynamic curvature on wall shear stress in a coronary artery bifurcation model”, Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 38, pp. 1283-1290, 2005.

J.S. Sobel, A.S. Forsberg, D.H. Laidlaw, R.C. Zeleznik, D.F. Keefe, I.V. Pivkin, G.E. Karniadakis, P. Richardson, and S. Swartz, “Particle flurries - Synoptic 3D pulsatile flow visualization”, (Feature Article), IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 24, pp. 76-85, 2004.

Refereed Conference Publications

P.D. Richardson, I.V. Pivkin, G.E. Karniadakis, and D.H. Laidlaw, “Blood flow at arterial branches: complexities to resolve for the angioplasty suite”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3993, pp. 538-545, 2006.

 

I.V. Pivkin, E. Hueso, R. Weinstein, D.H. Laidlaw, S. Swartz, and G.E. Karniadakis, “Simulation and visualization of air flow around bat wings during flight”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3515, pp. 689-694, 2005.

 

I.V. Pivkin, D.H. Laidlaw, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, “Moving meshes and flow simulations in coronary arteries”, In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, pp. 467-475, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2002.

 

J. Sobel, A. Forsberg, P. Richardson, D.H. Laidlaw, D. Keefe, I.V. Pivkin, and G. Karniadakis, “Arterial flows seen in virtual reality”, In J. Vossoughi, editor, Proceedings of the 21st Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, p. 349, Washington DC, September 2002.

 

I.V. Pivkin, R.M. Kirby, and G.E. Karniadakis, “High-order discontinuous Galerkin methods: simulation of COIL flows”, Proceedings of the Third AFOSR International Conference, Arlington, TX, August 5-9, 2001.

 

G.N. Markelov, I.V. Pivkin, and M.S. Ivanov, “Impulsive wedge rotation effects on the transition from regular to Mach reflection”, In Proceedings of 22nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, pp. 1243-1248, London, UK, July 1999.

 

Conference Presentations, Abstracts

I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, “Red blood cells and platelet aggregation in small blood vessels via Dissipative Particle Dynamics”, In 59th Annual APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Tampa, FL, November 2006.

 

M. Kostandov, I.V. Pivkin, K.S. Breuer, S.M. Swartz, and D.H. Laidlaw, “Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Particle Image Velocimetry in Bat Flight”, IEEE Visualization, 2006.

 

I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, “Density fluctuations and coarse-graining limits in DPD systems”, In 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, CA, August 2006.

 

I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, “Coarse-graining limits and solid-wall boundary conditions in DPD”, In 3rd International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science, Hampton, VA, August 2006.

 

I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, “Dissipative particle dynamics simulations of colloidal suspensions”, In 58th Annual APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 2005.

 

E. Hueso, I.V. Pivkin, S. Swartz, D.H. Laidlaw, G. Karniadakis, and K. Breuer, “Visualization of vortices in simulated airflow around bat wings during flight”, IEEE Visualization, 2004.

 

I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, “Simulation of mural platelet aggregation”, In BMES 2004 Annual Fall Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 2004.

 

I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, “Slip and no-slip boundary conditions in DPD”, In 13th International Conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics Cambridge, MA, August 2004.

 

E.E. Keaveny, M.R. Maxey, I.V. Pivkin, and G.E. Karniadakis, “A comparison of MD and DPD in simple and complex geometries”, In 13th International Conference on the Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics Cambridge, MA, August 2004.

 

I.V. Pivkin, N. Yang, P.D. Richardson, G.E. Karniadakis, and D.H. Laidlaw, “Visualization of blood platelets in a virtual environment”, In SIGGRAPH 2004 Posters, Los Angeles, CA, August 2004.

 

R. Weinstein, E. Hueso, I.V. Pivkin, S. Swartz, D.H. Laidlaw, G. Karniadakis, and K. Breuer, “Simulation and visualization of flow around bat wings during flight”, In SIGGRAPH 2004 Posters, Los Angeles, CA, August 2004.

 

S. Swartz, K. Bishop, I.V. Pivkin, G. Karniadakis, D.H. Laidlaw, E. Vote, and D. Keefe, “3D kinematics of flying bats: challenges of complex multidimensional comparison”, In Seventh International Congress on Vertebrate Morphology, Boca Raton, FL, 2004.

 

I.V. Pivkin and G.E. Karniadakis, “Spectral element mesh generation using Gridgen for bioflows”, In Gridgen User Group Meeting, Fort Worth, TX, April 2004.

 

I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, and G.E. Karniadakis, “Simulation of platelets in arterioles and venules”, In 56th Annual APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Meadowlands, NJ, November 2003.

 

I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, D.H. Laidlaw, and G.E. Karniadakis, “The combined effect of pulsatile inflow and unsteady geometry on flow in coronary arteries”, In Proceedings of International Symposium on Modeling Of Physiological Flows, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2003.

 

A. Forsberg, P. Richardson, J.A. Sobel, D.H. Laidlaw, D.F. Keefe, I.V. Pivkin, and G.E. Karniadakis, “Arterial motions and flows seen in virtual reality”, In Proceedings World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, Australia, August 2003.

 

I.V. Pivkin, P.D. Richardson, D.H. Laidlaw, and G.E. Karniadakis, “The effect of unsteady geometry on flow in coronary arteries”, In 55th Annual APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Dallas, TX, November 2002.