Past Event: Oden Institute Seminar

An Overview of the Computational Physics and Methods Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Jeff Haack, Computational Physics and Methods Group Los Alamos National Laboratory

Abstract

Staff, postdocs, and students in the Computational Physics and Methods Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory collaborate on multidisciplinary teams composed of engineers, physicists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists. We cover application areas that include neutron and radiation transport, shock hydrodynamics, multiphase fluid dynamics, turbulent mixing, ocean dynamics for climate modeling, astrophysics, and plasma physics. In this talk I will give an overview of these various application areas from the numerical methods and algorithms perspective. Specifically, I will describe several production codes and libraries that are co-developed by staff in our group. These codes and libraries are being used on some of the largest supercomputers in the world to address questions of national interest.