Devastatingly simple, yet hugely effective, the concept of this timely text is to provide a comprehensive overview of computational physics methods and techniques used for materials modeling on different length and time scales. Each chapter first provides an overview of the physical basic principles which are the basis for the numerical and mathematical modeling on the respective length scale. The book includes the micro scale, the meso-scale and the macro scale.

The idea of the book is to provide a comprehensive overview of computational physics methods and techniques, that are used for materials modeling on different length and time scales. Each chapter first provides an overview of the physical basic principles which are the basis for the numerical and mathematical modeling on the respective length-scale.

The book includes the micro-scale, the meso-scale and the macro-scale. The chapters follow this classification. The book will explain in detail many tricks of the trade of some of the most important methods and techniques that are used to simulate materials on the perspective levels of spatial and temporal resolution. Case studies are occasionally included to further illustrate some methods or theoretical considerations. Example applications for all techniques are provided, some of which are from the author's own contributions to some of the research areas. Methods are explained, if possible, on the basis of the original publications but also references to standard text books established in the various fields are mentioned.

First book on methods and numerical techniques on multiscales in a concise way Recent applications Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Dr. habil. Martin Oliver Steinhauser studied physics and mathematics in Ulm, Heidelberg, Munich in Germany and at the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) at Amherst, MA, USA. He earned his PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. After senior positions in software and life science industry he became senior scientist at a Fraunhofer research institute and since then was principal investigator in many research projects in basic and applied science. He is Doctor Habilitatus in Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland where he worked as academic teacher for 8 years. His research interests cover interdisciplinary areas such as high-performance computing, numerical method development, modeling and simulation of soft, biological matter systems on multi scales as well as shock wave physics and space research. In 2020 he was appointed as full Professor of Applied Physics and Computer Science at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt/Main. He lives with his family in Freiburg, Germany.

Inhalt
Fundamentals.- Multiscale Computational Materials Science.- Mathematical and Physical Prerequisites.- Fundamentals of Numerical Simulation.- Computational Methods on Multiscales.- Computational Methods on Electronic/Atomistic Scale.- Computational Methods on Atomistic/Microscopic Scale.- Computational Methods on Mesoscopic/Macroscopic Scale.- Perspectives in Multiscale Materials Modeling.