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Computational Methods in Transport

September 11 - 16, 2004

Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe

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Saturday, September 11, 2004

3:30 - 6:00 Registration
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner

Opening Talk

Evening Session

8:00 - 8:30

John Castor (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

 


Sunday, September 12, 2004

Review Talks (Mountain Lake Room)

Morning Session

8:15 - 8:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:30 - 9:30

Warren Wiscombe (NASA)

 
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

9:30 - 10:30

David Levermore (University of Maryland)

"Transition Regime Models from Kinetic Equations"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Ivan Hubeny (University of Arizona)

"Radiative Transfer in Astrophysical Applications"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Edward Larsen (University of Michigan)

"Neutron (and Photon) Transport for Nuclear Reactor Applications"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:00 - 4:00

Barry Ganapol (University of Arizona)

"A Coupled Leaf/Canopy Turbid Medium Radiative Transfer Model"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

Marty Marinak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"Simulations of High Energy Density Physics Experiments on Massively Parallel Architectures"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

6:00 - 8:00 Dinner

Monday, September 13, 2004

Atmospheric Physics/Oceanography/Plant Canopies (Mountain Lake Room)

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:15

Kuo-Nan Liou (UCLA)

"3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres: Diffusion Approximation and Monte Carlo Simulation for Thermal Emission "
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

9:15 - 10:00

Frank Evans (University of Colorado)

"The Spherical Harmonics Discrete Ordinate Method for Atmospheric Radiative Transfer"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15

Sasha Marshak (NASA)

"From simple plane-parallel to complex Monte Carlo calculations of solar fluxes and radiances for cloudy atmospheres"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

11:15 - 12:00

Anthony Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"Effective Transport Kernels for Spatially Correlated Media - Application to the Cloudy Atmosphere"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:45

Norm McCormick (University of Washington)

"Computer Challenges In Optical Oceanography"

2:45 - 3:30

George Kattawar (Texas A&M University)

"Stokes Vector-Mueller Matrix Radiative Transfer in an Atmosphere-Ocean System"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:30 - 4:15

Jean-Luc Widlowski (Joint Research Center)

"Vertical and horizontal transport of solar radiation in structurally heterogeneous canopies: issues and caveats"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30 Open Discussion
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Mathematics (Mountain Lake Room)

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:15

Barna Bihari (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"High Order Finite Volume Nonlinear Schemes for the Boltzmann Transport Equation"
Presentation (PDF File)

9:15 - 10:00

Guillaume Bal (Columbia University)

"Generalized diffusion models for transport in scattering and non-scattering regions"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15

Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin)

"Computations of Multivalued Solutions of Nonlinear PDEs"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:15 - 12:00

Rashit Shagaliev (VNIIEF)

"Finite-Difference Methods For Solving Multidimentional Time-Dependent Transport Problems Implemented In SATURN Package"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 5:00 Poster Session
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Neutron Transport/Astrophysics/High Energy Density Physics (Mountain Lake Room)

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:15

Marvin Adams (Texas A&M University)

"Neutron Transport in Nuclear Reactors"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

9:15 - 10:00

Richard Procassini (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"Design, Implementation and Optimization of a Parallel Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15

Tony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

"Neutrino Transport in Core Collapse Supernovae"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:15 - 12:00

Doug Swesty (State University of New York, Stony Brook)

"Solving the Time-dependent Discrete-ordinates Boltzmann equation on Parallel Architectures"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:45

Michael Norman (University of California at San Diego)

 

2:45 - 3:30

Jim Morel (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"Discrete-Ordinates Methods for Radiative Transfer in the Non-Relativistic Stellar Regime"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45

Todd Urbatsch (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"The Jayenne Implicit Monte Carlo Project:"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:45 - 5:30

Paul Nowak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

 

6:00 - 8:00 Dinner

Thursday, September 16, 2004

Summary (Mountain Lake Room)

Morning Session

8:30 - 8:50

Thomas Abel (Pennsylvania State University)

"Summary I"

8:50 - 9:10

Doug Swesty (State University of New York, Stony Brook)

"Summary II"

9:10 - 9:30

To Be Announced

9:30 - 9:50

David Levermore (University of Maryland)

"Summary IV"
Presentation (PDF File)

9:50 - 10:30 Discussion (all)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Closing Comments: Frank Graziani (LLNL) and Allon Percus (IPAM)
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch

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