Erkan Tüzel

Research Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Physics, University of Minnesota , 2006
Thesis: Particle-based Mesoscale Modeling of Flow and Transport in Complex Liquids
M.S., Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 2001
B.S., Engineering Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 1999

Address: Department of Physics, North Dakota State University,
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TEACHING


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Mesoscale modeling of complex fluids
Biological physics
Polymer physics
Mathematical biology

For more information please see my curriculum vitae or personal website.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

20. Thomas Ihle, Erkan Tüzel, "Static and dynamic properties of a particle-based algorithm for non-ideal fluids and binary mixtures ", cond-mat/0610350.

19. Andrew D. Bicek, Erkan Tüzel, Daniel M. Kroll, David J. Odde, " Analysis of Microtubule Curvature ", Methods in Cell Biology: Cell Mechanics, Ed. Y. Wang and D. Discher, to be published in 2007.

18. Erkan Tüzel, Thomas Ihle, Daniel M. Kroll, "Dynamic Correlations in Stochastic Rotation Dynamics", Phys. Rev. E 74, 056702 (2006).

17. Erkan Tüzel, Thomas Ihle, Daniel M. Kroll, "Constructing Thermodynamically Consistent Models with a Non-ideal Equation of State", Math. Comput. Simulat. 72, 232 (2006).

16. Thomas Ihle, Erkan Tüzel, Daniel M. Kroll, "Consistent Particle-based Algorithm with a Non-ideal Equation of State ", Europhys. Lett. 73, 664 (2006).

15. Thomas Ihle, Erkan Tüzel, Daniel M. Kroll, "Equilibrium Calculation of Transport Coefficients for a Fluid-particle Model ", Phys. Rev. E 72, 046707 (2005).

14. Thomas Ihle, Erkan Tüzel, Daniel M. Kroll, "Resummed Green-Kubo Relations for a Fluctuating Fluid-particle Model ", Phys. Rev. E 70, 035701 (2004). (pdf)

13. Erkan Tüzel, Ayşe Erzan, "A Thermodynamic Model for Prebiotic Protein Function ", ARI, Bull. ITU, 54/1, 19 (2004).

12. Erkan Tüzel, Martin Strauss, Thomas Ihle, Daniel M. Kroll, "Transport Coefficients for Stochastic Rotation Dynamics in Three Dimensions ", Phys. Rev. E 68, 036701 (2003).

11. Ayşe Erzan, Erkan Tüzel "Hydrophobic models of protein folding and the thermodynamics of chain-boundary interactions ", Braz. J. Phys., vol. 33/3, p.573-588 (2003).

10. Erkan Tüzel, K. Batuhan Kısacıkoğlu, Önder Pekcan, " Monitoring Diffusion of Reptating Polymer Chains by Direct Energy Transfer Method: a Monte Carlo Simulation in Three Dimension", Macromol. Theory Simul. Vol.11, 678-686 (2002).

9. Erkan Tüzel, Volkan Sevim, Ayşe Erzan " Evolutionary Route to Diploidy and Sex ", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 98, Issue 24, 13774-13777, (2001).

8. Erkan Tüzel, Volkan Sevim, Ayşe Erzan, " Strategies for the Evolution of Sex ", Phys. Rev. E 64, 061908 (2001).

7. Erkan Tüzel, Ayşe Erzan, "The Dissipative Dynamics and Relaxation Behaviour of a Generic Model for Hydrophobic Collapse ", Annual Reviews of Computational Physics VIII, Ed. D. Stauffer, World Scientific (2000).

6. Bora Örçal, Erkan Tüzel, Volkan Sevim, Naeem Jan, Ayşe Erzan, "Testing a Hypothesis for the Evolution of Sex ", Int. J. Mod. Phys. C, 11/5, 973-986 (2000).

5. Erkan Tüzel, Ayşe Erzan, "Dissipative Dynamics and the Statistics of Energy States of a Hookean Model for Protein Folding ", J. Stat. Phys. 100 (1/2), 405-422 (2000).

4. Erkan Tüzel, Ayşe Erzan, " Glassy Dynamics of Protein Folding ", Phys. Rev. E, 61, 1040 (2000).

3. Ayşe Erzan, Erkan Tüzel "The Statistics of Energy States of a Hookean Model for Proteins ", Turk. J. Phys., Vol:24, 295-310 (2000).

2. Erkan Tüzel, K. Batuhan Kısacıkoğlu, Önder Pekcan, " Simulation of Interdiffusion in Between Compartments Having Heterogenously Distributed Donors and Acceptors ", Polymer 41, 7539-7546 (2000).

1. Erkan Tüzel, M. Serdar Özmetin, Yaşar Yılmaz, Önder Pekcan, "A New Critical Point and Time Dependence of Bond Formation Probability in Sol-Gel Transition: a Monte Carlo Study in Two Dimension ", European Polym. J., Vol. 36/4, 727 (2000).


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