Misun Min

Computational Scientist
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439

Office: 240 TCS Building, Room 1-1411
Phone: (630) 252-5380, Fax: (630) 252-5986,
Email: mmin@mcs.anl.gov
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Advisor: Prof. David Gottlieb

Positions
2011, Computational Scientist, MCS Division, Argonne National Laboratory
2006, Assistant Computational Scientist, MCS Division, Argonne National Laboratory
2003, Postdoctoral Researcher, MCS Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Postdoctoral Advisor: Dr. Paul Fischer

Research Interests
My research interests include developing high-order numerical algorithms for efficient and accurate modeling for solving petascale-enabled problems in accelerator physics, nanotechnology-based applications (surface plasmonics, photovoltaic solar cells), and lattice Boltzmann fluid simulations. Numerical techniques include spectral/spectral-element/spectral-element discontinuous Galerkin/Nedelec-element/Krylov subspace approximations based on hexahedral and tetrahedral element meshes. My research combines theoretical work to develop stable, accurate, and fast numerical algorithms and software developments for high-performance architectures toward extreme scale.

Research Activities
  • Lead (Initiated) developer for a high-order spectral-element DG electromagnetic code, NekCEM.

    - Freely available at https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/NEKCEM: project wiki
    - Capability: simulation-based investigations for understanding electromagnetic propagation behaviors for nanosystems and accelerator devices.
    - Scalability: Currently scalable up to 131,072 cores on BG/P.
  • Lead (Initiated) developer for a spectral-element DG lattice Boltzmann fluid solver, NekLBM.

    - Freely available at https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/NEKLBM
    - Capability: simulation-based investigations for understanding fluid behaviors at a low Mach number.
    - Scalability: Currently scalable up to 131,072 cores on BG/P.

  • Publications
    [1] Jing Fu, Misun Min, Robert Latham, Christopher Carothers, I/O threads to reduce checkpoint blocking for an electromagnetics solver on Blue Gene/P and Cray XK6, ROSS'12: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers, in conjunction with ICS 2012, 2012.
    [2] Misun Min, Paul Fischer, An efficient high-order time integration method for spectral-element discontinuous Galerkin simulations in electromagnetics, Journal of Scientific Computing, under revision, 2011.
    [3] Jing Fu, Misun Min, Robert Latham, and Christopher Carothers, Parallel I/O performance for application-level checkpointing on the Blue Gene/P system, CLUSTER’11, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, pp. 465-473, 2011.
    [4] Kalu Uga, Misun Min, Taehun Lee, Paul Fischer, Spectral element discontinuous Galerkin lattice Boltzmann simulation of flow past two cylinders in tandem with exponential time integrator, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 2012.
    [5] Jin Xu, Brahim Mustapha, and Misun Min, Numerical methods and parallel algorithms for beam dynamics simulations, The special edition of Physical Review Special Topic: Accelerator and Beam, under revision, 2011.
    [6] Misun Min, Taehun Lee, Spectral element discontinuous Galerkin lattice Boltzmann methods for nearly incompressible flows, Journal of Computational Physics, 230, pp.245-259, 2011, [Top 25 Hottest Articles (Rank 17) : Oct-Dec 2010].
    [7] Misun Min and Paul Fischer, Scalable high-order algorithms for wakefield simulations, Proc. of International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC11), TUPEC061, 2010.
    [8] Misun Min, Paul Fischer, Jason Montgomery, Stephen K. Gray, Large-scale electromagnetic modeling based on high-order methods: Nanoscience applications, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 180, 012016, 2009.
    [9] Misun Min, Paul Fischer, Spectral-element discontinuous Galerkin (SEDG) simulations with a moving window algorithm for wakefield calculations, Proc. of Particle Accelerator conference (PAC09), TH5PFP037, 2009.
    [10] Misun Min, Paul Fischer, Yong-Chul Chae, Wake fields for TESLA cavity structures: Spectral element discontinuous Galerkin simulations, Proc. Of RF Superconductivity (SRF07), TUP34, 2007.
    [11] Misun Min, Yong-Ho Chin, Paul Fischer, Yong-Chul Chae, Kwang-Je Kim, Fourier spectral simulations for wake field in conducting cavities, Proc. of Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC07), pp. 3432-3434, 2007.
    [12] Misun Min, Paul Fischer, Yong-Chul Chae, Spectral-element discontinuous Galerkin simulations for bunched beam in accelerating structures, Proc. of Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC07), pp. 3435-3437, 2007.
    [13] Misun Min, Taewoo Lee, Paul Fischer, Stephen K. Gray, Fourier spectral simulations and Gegenbauer reconstructions for electromagnetic waves in the presence of a metal nanoparticle, Journal of Computational Physics, 213 (2): pp.730-747, 2006.
    [14] Misun Min, Sidi M. Kaber, Wai-Sun Don, Fourier-Padé rational approximations and filtering for the spectral simulations of incompressible inviscid Boussinesq convection flows, Mathematics of Computation, Vol 76, pp.1275-1290, 2007.
    [15] Misun Min, David Gottlieb, Domain decomposition spectral approximations for an eigenvalue problem with a piecewise constant coefficient, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 43 (2): pp.502-520, 2005.
    [16] Misun Min, Discontinuous Galerkin method based on quadrilateral mesh for Maxwell's equations, Proc. of ACES/IEEE on Wireless Communications and Applied Computational Electromagnetics, pp. 719-723, 2005.
    [17] Misun Min, Quan-Yong Chen, and Yvon Maday, Spectral method for 2D photonic band structures, Proc. of SPIE, Photonic Crystal Materials and Device II, Vol.5360, pp. 44-51, 2004.
    [18] Misun Min, David Gottlieb, On the convergence of the Fourier approximation for eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of discontinuous problems, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 40 (6): pp.2254-2269, 2003.
    [19] Misun Min, Chun-Hao Teng, The instability of the Yee scheme for the "magic time step", Journal of Computational Physics, 166 (2): pp.418-424, 2001.

    Preprints
    [1] Misun Min, Jing Fu, Performance analysis on the IBM BG/P for the spectral-element discontinuous Galerkin method for electromagnetic modeling, Preprint ANL/MCS-P1802-0111, to be submitted for Journal publication.
    [2] Misun Min, Jing Fu, Taehun Lee, Parallel Performance for the spectral-element discontinuous Galerkin lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible flows, Preprint ANL/MCS-P1831-1010, to be submitted for Journal publication.
    [3] Misun Min, Jason Montgomery, Stephen Gray, Spectral-element discontinuous Galerkin simulations for plasmonics applications based on Lorentz models, in preparation.
    [4] Mike Fairchild, Misun Min, Jason Montgomery, Stephen Gray, High-order modeling for plasmonics, in preparation.

    Presentations

    Links: ICOSAHOM, PAC, ICAP, SIAM, ACES, SPIE, PIERS, PBG I, PBG II, SLAC,