Nuclear Weapons Highlights 2004-2005
LA-UR-05-3853, June 2005
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Contents
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Entire Publication
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Back Cover and Back Cover (pdf 2.2 mb)
Author
Index (pdf 92 kb)
- Equation of State Developments in T-1
Nicolas Bock, Eric Chisolm, Scott Crockett, Giulia De Lorenzi-Venneri, Denise George, Carl Greeff, J. D. Johnson, Sven Rudin, and Duane Wallace (T-1) (pdf 64 kb) - Modeling
Dynamic Phase Changes in Zr—EOS and Kinetics
Carl Greeff and Sven Rudin (T-1), Frank Addessio and Eric Harstad (T-3), Paulo Rigg and Rob Hixson (DX-2), G.T. Gray, III (MST-8), Yusheng Zhao and Jianzhong Zhang (LANSCE-12), and Marcus Knudson (Sandia National Laboratories) (pdf 188 kb) - Adiabatic
and Non-Adiabatic Contributions to the Free Energy from the Electron-Phonon
Interaction for Na, K, Al, and Pb
Nicolas Bock and Duane C. Wallace (T-1), D. Coffey ( Buffalo State College) (pdf 1 mb) - Unified
Model of the Grüneisen Parameter, Melting Temperature, and Shear
Modulus for a Compound
Leonid Burakovsky (T-1) and Dean L. Preston (P-22)(pdf 112 kb) - Extending
the CCW EOS: Extending the Nuclear Contribution to High Temperatures
Eric D. Chisolm, Scott D. Crockett, and Duane C. Wallace (T-1) (pdf 132 kb) - Dynamic
Response of Simple Liquids from Vibration-Transit Theory
Giulia De Lorenzi-Venneri and Duane Wallace (T-1) (pdf 1.2 mb) - Direct
Numerical Simulations of PBX 9501 with Reaction Chemistry
Eric M. Mas, Brad E. Clements, and Denise C. George (T-1)(pdf 496 kb) - Calculations
to Refine Beryllium’s Equation of State
Sven P. Rudin and J. D. Johnson (T-1) (pdf 392 kb)
Condensed Matter, Materials Science, and Chemistry
- Nonspherical
Void Growth Theories
Brad E. Clements and Eric M. Mas (T-1), and Paul J. Maudlin (T-3) (pdf 224 kb) - Large-Scale
Dislocation Dynamics Simulation of Bulk Deformation
Richard LeSar (T-12), and Nasr Ghoniem and Zhiqiang Wang ( University of California at Los Angeles) (pdf 772 kb) - N-Scaling
Materials Response by Density Matrix Perturbation Theory
Anders M.N. Niklasson (T-1), Matt Challacombe (T-12), and Valéry Weber (T-12 and University of Fribourg, Switzerland) (pdf 1.6 mb) - A
Model for Heterogeneous Materials Including Phase Transformations
Frank L. Addessio and Todd O. Williams (T-3), and Brad E. Clements and Eric M. Mas (T-1) (pdf 212 kb) - An
Implicit Thermomechanical Composite Model of PBX 9501
Curt A. Bronkhorst and Todd O. Williams (T-3), Darla G. Thompson (DX-2), and Cheng Liu (MST-8) (pdf 1.9 kb) - Modeling
Phase Transformations with Strength in Zirconium
Eric N. Harstad, Francis L. Addessio, Q. Ken Zuo, and Todd O. Williams (T-3); and Carl W. Greeff (T-1) (pdf 1.1 mb) - Direct
Numerical Simulation of Polycrystal
Manjit S. Sahota, Rick M. Rauenzahn, Frank L. Addessio,and Francis H. Harlow (T-3) (pdf 1.6 mb) - Damage
Surface Based on the Critical Crack Orientation
Q. Ken Zuo and Frank L. Addessio (T-3), John K. Dienes (T-14)(pdf 296 kb) - Numerical
Simulation of Realistic Foam Microstructures
Andrew Brydon and Scott Bardenhagen (T-14) (pdf 192 kb) - Strain-Induced
Phase Transformations in Shape Memory Alloys
Rajeev Ahluwalia, Turab Lookman, and Avadh Saxena (T-11) (pdf 760 kb) - Mesoscale
Simulations of Crack Propagation
V. Dwivedi [University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)/T-11]; Rajeev Ahluwalia, Turab Lookman, and Avadh Saxena (T-11); and S. Bannerjee (UCSB) (pdf 288 kb) - Viscoelastic
Behavior of Polymers
David Hall and Turab Lookman (T-11), and Edward Kober (T-14) (pdf 1.1 mb) - Impurities
Block the
to 
Martensitic
Transformation in Titanium
Richard G. Hennig, Dallas R. Trinkle, and John W. Wilkins (Ohio State University); Johann Bouchet and Robert C. Albers (T-11); and Srivilliputhur G. Srinivasan (MST-8) (pdf 600 kb) - Towards
Modeling Elastic Properties of Estane ®
Kim Ø. Rasmussen and Turab Lookman (T-11), Panagiotis Maniadis (CNLS/T-11), and Edward M. Kober (T-14) (pdf 736 kb) - World
Record: Large-Scale Molecular-Dynamics Simulation of 19 Billion Particles
Kai Kadau (T-14), Timothy C. Germann (X-7), and Peter S.Lomdahl (T-11) (pdf 904 kb) - Thermal
Decomposition of Nitromethane using Reactive Molecular Dynamics
Si-ping Han (T-14 and California Institute of Technology) and Alejandro Strachan (T-14) (pdf 2.5 mb) - Micromechanical
Modeling of the Binder Material of PBX 9501
David Hanson (T-12) (pdf 288 kb) - Quantum
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Liquid Plutonium and Hydrogen/Metal
Mixtures
Joel D. Kress (T-12) and Lee A. Collins (T-4) (pdf 328 kb) - Energy
Exchange between Mesoparticles and Their Internal Degrees of Freedom
Brad Lee Holian (T-12) and Alejandro Strachan (T-14) (pdf 220 kb) - Decomposition
of Nitroplasticizer in Plastic-Bonded Explosive PBX 9501
Denise K. Pauler (T-12 and Cornell University) and Joel D. Kress(T-12) (pdf 124 kb)
- Design of a Fragment Generator
Eric M. Mas (T-1), Paul Maudlin (T-3), and Jon Mace (DX-2) (pdf 584 kb) - Shock Passage Over an Interface
Rick Rauenzahn, Manjit Sahota, and Francis Harlow (T-3); Robert Gore (X-2); Michael Steinkamp (X-3); and Jon Weisheit (T-15) (pdf 1.4 mb) - Numerical
Simulation of Plastic-Bonded Explosives
Scott Bardenhagen and Andrew Brydon (T-14) (pdf 216 kb) - The Nexus between Reactive MD Simulations
of RDX and the Reactive Euler Equations
Shirish M. Chitanvis (T-14) (pdf 268 kb) - Atomistic Studies of PBX 9501 Constituents and Interactions
Among Them
Eugenio Jaramillo and Thomas D. Sewell (T-14); Chee Kwan Gan and Matt Challacombe (T-12); and Hemali Davande, Dmitry Bedrov, Oleg Borodin, and Grant D. Smith (University of Utah) (pdf 412 kb) - Large-Scale
Simulations of Shock-Induced Transformations in Gallium, on the Way to
Plutonium
Kai Kadau (T-14), Timothy C. Germann (X-7), Peter S. Lomdahl (T-11), Brad L. Holian (T-12), Ramon J. Ravelo (University of Texas/X-7), Frank J. Cherne (DX-2), and Michael I. Baskes (MST-8) (pdf 1.6 mb) - Atomistic
Investigations into the Dependence of Detonation Properties on Material
Parameters using Molecular Dynamics
Edward Kober and Andrew J. Heim (T-14) (pdf 1.2 mb) - Detonation Products Equation of State
M. Sam Shaw and C. J. Tymczak (T-14) (pdf 296 kb) - Anisotropic
Plasticity of NiAl under Dynamical Loading
Alejandro Strachan (T-14) and Sheng-Nian Luo (P-24) (pdf 2.2 mb) - Mesodynamical Simulations with
Quantum Mechanical Description of the Thermal
Alejandro Strachan (T-14) and Brad Lee Holian (T-12) (pdf 860 kb) - Influence of Elastic Shear
Stiffness on Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
JeeYeon N. Plohr (T-1) and Bradley J. Plohr (T-13) (pdf 368 kb) - Modeling Plastic Instability and
Strain Localization in Explosively Driven U6 Hemi
Q. Ken Zuo and Paul J. Maudlin (T-3), and Lawrence M. Hull (DX-3)
- Flux Calculations in the Heat Transfer Component of TELLURIDE
Travis Austin, Markus Berndt, J. David Moulton, and Mikhail Shashkov (T-7) (pdf 1.4 mb) - Shear Localization in Tantalum Top Hat Samples
Curt A. Bronkhorst and Paul J. Maudlin (T-3), and Ellen K. Cerreta, Thomas A. Mason, and George T. Gray III (MST-8) (pdf 1.4 mb) - Compressible Particle Model for Turbulent
Mix Calculations
Michael C. Cline, Manjit S. Sahota, Peter J. O’Rourke, and David J. Torres (T-3), and Margaret S. Hubbard (X-3) (pdf 472 kb) - Phase
Separation Simulations using Annular Centrifugal Contactors
Nely T. Padial-Collins, W. Brian VanderHeyden, Qisu Zou, and Duan Z. Zhang (T-3), and Scott Sportsman (NMT-2) (pdf 1 mb) - The Effect of Initial Conditions on the Turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor
Flow
Praveen Ramaprabhu (CNLS), Guy Dimonte (X-4), and M.J. Andrews (Texas A&M University) (pdf 396 kb) - Nuclear Weapons Effects: Agent Defeat Simulations
Manjit S. Sahota, Rick M. Rauenzahn, and W. Brian VanderHeyden (T-3), and Merri M. Wood-Schultz (X-2) (pdf 1.7 mb) - Parallel Epic Porting,
Simulations, and Performance
Manjit S. Sahota, Eric N. Harstad, and Paul J. Maudlin (T-3); Thomas A. Mason (MST-8); and Eric M. Mas (T-1) (pdf 656 kb) - High-Explosive Safety Study Update
Qisu Zou, Duan Z. Zhang, W. Brian VanderHeyden, and Nely Padial-Collins (T-3) (pdf 752 kb) - Nanohydrodynamics Simulations:
An Atomistic View of the Raleigh-Taylor Instability
Kai Kadau (T-14), Timothy C. Germann (X-7), Peter S. Lomdahl (T-11), Brad L. Holian (T-12), Guy Dimonte (X-4), Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Berni Alder (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) (pdf 1.6 mb)
- Accelerated
Inexact Newton Method for Casting Simulations
Andrew P. Kuprat (T-1) (pdf 1 mb) - A
Memory Efficient Parallel Tridiagonal Solver
Travis M. Austin, Markus Berndt, and J. David Moulton (T-7) - Efficient
Smoothing of Unstructured Grids
Markus Berndt and J. David Moulton (T-7) (pdf 900 kb) - Interface
Reconstruction on General Polygonal Meshes
Rao V. Garimella, Mikhail J. Shashkov, and Blair K. Swartz (T-7) (pdf 176 kb) - Mimetic
Discretizations of Diffusion Equation on Polygonal Meshes
Konstantin Lipnikov and Mikhail Shashkov (T-7), and Yuri Kuznetsov ( University of Houston) (pdf 608 kb) - An
Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian Code for Polygonal Mesh: ALE INC(ubator)
Raphaël Loubère and Mikhail Shashkov (T-7) (pdf 3.1 mb) - A
Subcell Remapping Method on Staggered Polygonal Grids for Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian
Methods
Raphaël Loubère and Mikhail Shashkov (T-7) (pdf 1.3 mb) - The
Repair Paradigm: New Algorithms and Applications to Compressible Flow
Raphaël Loubère, Martin Staley, and Burton Wendroff (T-7) (pdf 5.1 mb) - CORE:
Conservative Remapper
Martin Staley and Mikhail Shashkov (T-7) (pdf 212 kb)
- Attribution
for Nuclear Devices Based on Reactor Grade Fuel
Anna C. Hayes, Patrick Goda, Jack Hills, and Gerard Jungman (T-6); and John Richter (X-4) (pdf 904 kb) - Implications
of the Uncertainties in the n + Li Cross Sections
Anna C. Hayes (T-6), Gerald Hale (T-16), Steven Howe (LANSCE-DO), Andrew S. Johnson (X-2), Britton A. Girard (X-4), Thomas J. Gorman (X-3), and Robert C. Little (X-5) (pdf 364 kb) - New
Antineutrino Spectra for Plutonium and Uranium
Anna C. Hayes and Corinne M. Teeter (T-6), William B. Wilson (T-16), and Michael Martin Nieto (T-8) (pdf 1 mb) - Nuclear
Isomers
Anna C. Hayes and Gerard Jungman (T-6), Eric Lynn (T-16), and Britt Girard (X-4) (pdf 332 mb) - Radiochemical
Detectors Probe Physical Processes
Gerard Jungman and Anna C. Hayes (T-6) (pdf 320 kb) - Prompt
Beta Spectroscopy as a Diagnostic for Mix in Ignited NIF Capsules
Anna C. Hayes and Gerard Jungman (T-6), Johndale C. Solem (T-DO), Paul A. Bradley (X-2), and Robert S. Rundberg (C-INC) (pdf 688 kb) - Intrinsic
Decay of Quantum Many-Body Systems
George E. Cragg and Arthur K. Kerman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (pdf 428 kb) - Neutron
Cross Sections for Reactions on 6Li and 9Be
Gerald M. Hale (T-16) (pdf 788 kb) - Combining
Differential and Integral Cross Sections to Improve Nuclear Data for
Fission Applications
Toshihiko Kawano (T-16), Kenneth M. Hanson (CCS-2/T-16), Stephanie C. Frankle (X-5), Patrick Talou and Mark B. Chadwick (T-16), and Robert C. Little (X-5) (pdf 720 kb) - Correlated
Neutron Emission in Fission
Sebastien Lemaire, Patrick Talou, Toshihiko Kawano, Mark B. Chadwick, and David G. Madland (T-16) (pdf 720 kb) - Importance
of Proton-Nucleus Strong Interaction to Proton-Radiography Simulation
Lon-Chang Liu (T-16) (pdf 816 kb) - Critical
Assembly Data Testing for Nuclear Cross Sections
Robert E. MacFarlane and Mark B. Chadwick (T-16), Michael MacInnes (X-2), and Robert C. Little (X-5) (pdf 1.3 mb) - Global
Calculation of Nuclear Shape Isomers
Peter Möller (T-16), Ragnar Bengtsson and Peter Olivius ( Lund University, Sweden) (pdf 876 kb) - Testing
the Predictive Power of Nuclear-Structure Models Against New Experimental
Data
Peter Möller (T-16) (pdf 640 kb) - Detection
of Antineutrinos for Nonproliferation
Michael Martin Nieto (T-8), Anna C. Hayes and Corinne M. Teeter (T-6), William B. Wilson (T-16), and William D. Stanbro (N-4) (pdf 688 kb) - 8Be
Nuclear Data Evaluation
Philip R. Page and Gerald M. Hale (T-16) (pdf 1.3 mb) - The
Nuclear Reaction Code McGNASH
Patrick Talou, Mark B. Chadwick, Phillip G. Young, and Toshihiko Kawano (T-16) (pdf 740 kb) - Neutron
Emission Spectra from Actinides
Phillip G. Young and Robert E. MacFarlane (T-16), Mark B. Chadwick (PADNWP), and Stephanie C. Frankle (X-5) (pdf 420 kb) - Fission
Neutron Multiplicity Functions for Preinitiation Calculations
Thomas C. Luu, Jack Hills, Gerard Jungman, and Anna C. Hayes (T-6) (pdf 496 kb)
- Line-Edge
Blending in ATOMIC
Joseph Abdallah, Jr., Peter Hakel, David P. Kilcrease, Norman H. Magee, Jr., Stephane Mazevet, and Manolo Sherrill (T-4) (pdf 216 kb) - New
Methods for Spectral Generation in ATOMIC
Joseph Abdallah, Jr., Manolo Sherrill, Stephane Mazevet, Norman H. Magee, Jr., David P. Kilcrease, and Peter Hakel (T-4) (pdf 228 kb) - Parallel
Rate Matrix Solvers in the ATOMIC Code
James Colgan and Joseph Abdallah (T-4), Christopher J. Fontes and H. L. Zhang (X-5) (pdf 160 kb) - Time-Dependent
Studies of Photoionization of Light Systems: Beyond Two-Electron Systems
James Colgan (T-4) (pdf 344 kb) - The
ATOMIC Equation of State
Stephane Mazevet, Joseph Abdallah, Peter Hakel, David P. Kilcrease, Norman H. Magee, Jr., and Manolo Sherrill (T-4) (pdf 1 mb)
- Recent
Developments in High Energy-Density Plasma Physics
Michael S. Murillo and Jon Weisheit (T-15) (pdf 440 kb) - Electromagnetic
Excitation Rates for Nuclear Isomers in a Hot Dense Plasma
Thomas C. Luu and Anna C. Hayes (T-6), and James L. Friar (T-16) (pdf 112 kb) - Self-Focusing
of Plasma Waves and the Control of Laser-Plasma-Instability
Harvey A. Rose (T-13) (pdf 136 kb) - Extended
Thomas-Fermi Models for Equations of State of Dense, High Energy-Density
Matter
George Csanak (T-4), Jérôme Daligault and Michael S. Murillo (T-15) (pdf 1 mb)
- Theoretical
Prediction of an Observed Solar g-Mode
Arthur N. Cox (T-6) and Joyce A. Guzik (X-2) (pdf 768 kb) - Modeling
Supernova Explosions
Chris Fryer and Gabe Rockefeller (T-6), Kim New (X-2), and Aimee Hungerford (CCS-4) (pdf 600 kb) - Stellar
Burning and Mixing
Falk Herwig, Alexander Heger, and Frank Timmes (T-6); and Rob Hueckstaedt and Rob Coker (X-2) (pdf 1 mb) - On
Variations in the Peak Luminosity of Type Ia Supernovae
Frank X. Timmes (T-6), Edward F. Brown ( Michigan State University), and J. W. Truran ( University of Chicago) (pdf 780 kb) - Physical
Properties of White Dwarf Atmospheres
Stephane Mazevet (T-4), Piotr Kowalski and Didier Saumon (X-7) (pdf 392 kb)
Predictive Science and Uncertainty Quantification
- The
Use of Smoothing Splines to Assess Uncertainties in Alpha Curves
Timothy C. Wallstrom (T-13) (pdf 616 kb) - Physics
Package Confidence: “ONE” vs “1.0”
David H. Sharp (T-13 and X-DO), Timothy C. Wallstrom (T-13), and Merri Wood-Schultz (X-2) (pdf 360 kb)
