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CELS Seminar Announcement
"Progress & Challenges in the High-Fidelity Modeling of Interfacial Flows in Scalable Multi-Physics Applications"

DATE: October 28, 2009
TIME: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
SPEAKER: Douglas Kothe, Director of Science for National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
LOCATION: Building 240, TCS Conference Center (1416), Argonne National Laboratory
HOST: Rick Stevens

Description:
Doug Kothe is the director of science for the NCCS at ORNL, responsible for guiding the multidisciplinary research teams using the center’s leadership computing systems. Doug has more than 20 years of experience in computational science research. His research interests and expertise have centered on developing physical models and numerical algorithms for simulating physical processes in the presence of incompressible and compressible fluid flow. A leader in modeling interfacial flows, he has been the principal developer of broadly disseminated scientific simulation tools. His most notable contribution has been the development of methods for flows possessing interfaces, especially free surfaces.Before joining the NCCS, Doug was deputy program director for Theoretical and Computational Programs in the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He served for several years as the leader of ASC’s Telluride Project, which developed the advanced manufacturing simulation tool “Truchas” for the Department of Energy complex. He joined the technical staff at LANL in 1988 as a member of the Fluid Dynamics Group, in which he helped develop the Ripple, Pagosa, and CFDLIB computational fluid dynamics codes. He later worked in the Structure/Relations Group and was group leader of the Continuum Dynamics Group.

Doug received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri–Columbia and his M.S. and Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Purdue University. He is the author of more than 60 refereed publications and has written more than a half-million lines of source code.

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