Theory Group

				Wolfgang Fenz
office: P 216				tel.: (+43) 732 / 2468-8633 fax.: (+43) 732 / 2468-8585		email: wolfgang.fenz(AT)jku.at

Life

Diploma: 2001 JKU Linz "Binary mixtures of magnetic fluids"
PhD: 2004 JKU Linz, "Phase behavior of magnetic fluids and Ising mixtures"

Teaching Activities

SS 2002: Exercises "Theoretische Physik II: Quantenmechanik"
SS 2003: Exercises "Mathematische Methoden der Physik I"
WS 2003/2004: Exercises "Theoretische Physik I: Mechanik"
SS 2004: Exercises "Theoretische Physik II: Quantenmechanik"

Research Interests

Monte Carlo / Molecular Dynamics simulations
Magnetic fluids
Liquid state theory
Phase transitions and critical phenomena

Selected Publications

I. P. Omelyan, R. Folk, I. M. Mryglod, and W. Fenz, "Liquid-vapor and liquid-liquid interfaces in Ising fluids: An integral equation approach", J. Chem. Phys. 126, 124702 (2007)

W. Fenz, R. Folk, I. M. Mryglod, I. P. Omelyan, "Possibility of Fisher renormalization of the critical exponents in an Ising fluid", Phys. Rev. E 75, 061504 (2007)

I. P. Omelyan, W. Fenz, I. M. Mryglod, R. Folk, "XY spin fluid in an external magnetic field", Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 045701 (2005)

W. Fenz, I. P. Omelyan, R. Folk, "Integral equation study of an ideal Ising mixture", Phys. Rev. E 72, 056121 (2005)

W. Fenz, R. Folk, "Phase behavior of Ising mixtures", Phys. Rev. E 71, 046104 (2005)

I. P. Omelyan, I. M. Mryglod, R. Folk, W. Fenz, "Ising fluids in an external magnetic field: An integral equation approach", Phys. Rev. E 69, 061506 (2004); Publisher's Note, Phys. Rev. E 70, 049903(E) (2004)

W. Fenz, R. Folk, I. M. Mryglod, I. P. Omelyan, "Phase diagrams of classical spin fluids: The influence of an external magnetic field on the liquid-gas transition", Phys. Rev. E 68, 061510 (2003)

W. Fenz and R. Folk "Binary mixtures of magnetic fluids", Phys. Rev. E 67, 021507 (2003)