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Residence
  
Canberra

Education
  
University of Sydney

Name
  
Denis Evans


Nationality
  
Australia

Citizenship
  
Australian

Fields
  
Physics, Chemistry

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Born
  
19 April 1951 (age 73) Sydney (
1951-04-19
)

Institutions
  
Australian National University

Denis James Evans, (born 19 April 1951 in Sydney, Australia), is a Professor in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University. He is widely recognised for his contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and the simulation of nonequilibrium fluids.

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Personal Profile

Denis Evans was a CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Research Fellow at Cornell University and a Fulbright Fellow at the National Bureau of Standards (USA) during 1979 and 1980. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and has won numerous awards, including the Frederick White Prize of the Australian Academy of Sciences (1990), the H. G. Smith Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (2000), the Boys-Rahman Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2000), a Centenary Medal from the Australian Government, the Moyal Medal for distinguished contributions to mathematics, physics or statistics from Macquarie University, the David Craig Medal of the Australian Academy of Science (2015). He was awarded Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia (2016) [1].

He is also a keen bushwalker and photographer.

Research interests

Denis Evans heads the Liquid state chemical physics group in the Research School of Chemistry at The Australian National University. Denis is best known for the derivation and experimental validation of the Fluctuation theorem, an extension of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Denis Evans has over 350 publications on nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, dynamical systems theory as applied to bulk systems, irreversible thermodynamics, computer simulation algorithms for nonequilibrium systems, the relation of the intermolecular potential function to macroscopic fluid properties and molecular rheology. He has developed nonequilibrium simulation methods including the SLLOD algorithm for the study of shear flow, the Evans' method for heat flow, the color conductivity method for the determination of self diffusion.

He is also well known for the development of links between the theory of chaos and properties of fluids including development of the Conjugate Pairing Rule.

Books

  • Evans, D.J. and Morriss, G.P., "Statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium Liquids", First Edition reprinted, Australian National University ePress, Canberra, 2007, ISBN 978-1-921313-22-6.
  • Evans D.J., Searles D.J. and Williams S.R. "Fundamentals of Classical Statistical Thermodynamics: Dissipation, Relaxation and Fluctuation Theorems", pp205. (Wiley VCH, Weinheim Germany) ISBN 978-3527410736
  • Evans D.J. and Morriss G.P., "Statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium Liquids", Second Edition, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge), ISBN 978-0521857918

    • Selected publications

  • Steven R. Williams and Denis J. Evans, Linear Response Domain in Glassy System, Phys. Rev. Lett., 96 015701 (2006)
  • Butler B.D., Ayton G., Jepps O.G. and Evans D.J., Configurational temperature: Verification of Monte Carlo simulations, J. Chem. Phys., 109, 6519-6522 (1998).
  • Lue L. and Evans D.J., Configurational temperature for systems with constraints, Phys. Rev. E,62, 4764–4768 (2000).
  • Wang, G.M., Sevick, E.M., Mittag, E., Searles, D.J. and Evans, D.J., Experimental demonstration of violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamics for small systems and short time scales, Phys. Rev. Lett., 89(5), 050601/1–4 (2002).
  • Evans, D.J. and Searles, D.J., The Fluctuation Theorem, Adv. in Phys.51, 1529-1585 (2002).

    • References

    Denis Evans Wikipedia
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