Related links:

U.C., Santa Barbara, Mechanical Engineering Department

Computational Science and Engineering group webpage

Ph.D. Advisors:

Linda Petzold

Carlos Garcia-Cervera

Frederic Gibou

Eckart Meiburg

Research Collaborators:

(at U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Richard Alkire

Richard Braatz

(at Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Shengtai Li

   Matthew J. Buoni  

Academic background:

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004

B.S., Engineering Physics, Ohio State University, 2001

Research Interests and Expertise

General interests:  I tend to enjoy most challenging problems that involve mathematical modeling, computation and analysis.  In particular, I find numerical simulation of multiscale, multiphysics systems that require interdisciplinary knowledge and/or collaborations to be a dynamic and captivating area of research.

Specific expertise:  Since my undergraduate days, I have been active in research and made contributions in the following areas.

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) circuit design and fabrication

• Microwave measurements in low temperature non-equilibrium plasmas

• Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) of micronozzle flows

• Computational Fluid Dynamics with long-range Van der Waals forces

• Disk self-gravity calculations in protoplanet simulations

• Multi-scale simulation of copper electrodeposition

• Compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence

• Voronoi meshes on complex, non-convex domains

Publications

An algorithm for simulation of electrochemical systems with surface-bulk coupling strategies, M. Buoni, L. Petzold, J. Comp. Phys., vol. 229, pp. 379-398 (2010).

Effect of Additives on Shape Evolution during Electrodeposition: IV. Superfilling in Small Trenches, M. Willis, M. Buoni, L. Petzold, R. Braatz, R.C. Alkire, submitted to J. Electrochem. Soc. (2009).

A fast potential and self-gravity solver for disks, S. Li, M.Buoni and H. Li, Astrophysics Journal, vol. 181, pp. 244-254 (2009).

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Copper Electrodeposition , Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara (2008).

An efficient, scalable numerical algorithm for the simulation of electrochemical systems on irregular domains, M. Buoni, L. Petzold, J. Comp. Phys., vol. 225, pp. 2320-2332 (2007).  Click here for a more detailed version.

Numerical Simulation of Two Phase Fluid Flow with Long Range Surface Forces, M.S. Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara (2004).

Simulation of Compressible Gas Flow in a Micronozzle - Effect of Walls on Shock Structure, M. Buoni, D. Dietz, K. Aslam, and V. V. Subramaniam, 35th AIAA Thermophysics Conference, June 11-14, 2001, Anaheim, CA.

Electron density and recombination rate measurements in CO-seeded optically pumped plasmas, Elke Plonjes, Peter Palm, Matt Buoni, Vish V. Subramaniam, Igor Adamovich, J. App. Phys., vol. 89, No. 11, pp. 5903-5910 (2001).

Small tip angle NMR as a probe of electron-mediated nuclear spin-spin couplings in YBa₂Cu₃O₇, C.H. Pennington, S. Yu, K.R. Gorny, M.J. Buoni, W.L. Hults, J.L. Smith, Phys. Rev. B 63, 054513 (2001).

Here is my CV in .pdf format.