Dr. Jeffrey Hoyt – Faculty of Engineering
Jeffrey Hoyt

Dr. Jeffrey Hoyt

  • Professor (Emeritus)

    Materials Science and Engineering

Overview

The Prof. Hoyt research group studies phase transformations utilizing atomistic simulation techniques such as molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo.

Professor J.J. Hoyt received his BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University and his MS (1982) and PhD (1986) in Physical Metallurgy from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1988 to 1996. Dr. Hoyt was a faculty member in the department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University, achieving the rank of associate professor. From 1997-2007 Prof. Hoyt was a senior member of the technical staff at the Sandia National Laboratories at both the Livermore, CA and Albuquerque, NM sites. Prof. joined the department of Materials Science and Engineering at McMaster University in 2007 and in 2012 was named chair of the department.

Prof. Hoyt is the author or co-author of over 100 papers in refereed scientific journals and has presented over 50 invited presentations at national and international scientific conferences. His research expertise is the study of phase transformations in materials using advanced computational tools such as molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations.

B.S. Cornell, M.S. & Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Recent

H. Song and J. J. Hoyt, “A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of the Velocities, Mobility and Activation Energy of an Austenite-Ferrite Interface in Pure Fe”, Acta Mater., 60, 4328 (2012)

J. J. Hoyt and A. A. Potter, “A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of the Cavitation Pressure in Liquid Al”, Metall. Mater. Trans. A, 43, 3972 (2012)

J. J. Hoyt, “All Particles Are Equal”, Nature Matls. News & Views, 10, 652 (2011).

Y. Yang, H. Humadi, D. Buta, B. B. Laird, D. Y. Sun, J. J. Hoyt and M. Asta, “Atomistic Simulations of Nonequilibrium Crystal-Growth Kinetics from Alloy Melts”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 025505 (2011).

J. J. Hoyt and M. Haataja, “Continuum Model of Irradiation-Induced Spinodal Decomposition in the Presence of Dislocations”, Phys. Rev. B, 83, 174106 (2011).

Publications

Book

  1. J. J. Hoyt, “Phase Transformations”, McMaster Innovation Press, 2010.

Book Chapters

  1. J. J. Hoyt, M. Asta and A. Karma, “Atomistic Simulations of Solute Trapping and Solute Drag”, in Solidification of Containerless Undercooled Melts, Edited by: D. M. Herlach and D. M. Matson (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmBH&Co., Weinheim, 2012) pg. 363.
  2. B. T. Fultz and J. J. Hoyt “Phase Equilibria and Phase Transformations”, Chapter 7 in Alloy Physics: A Comprehensive Review,Edited by W. Pfeiler (Wiley Interscience: 2007) pg.  347.