Areas of Research

SPARC combines the best of Los Alamos and the University of Michigan

The LANL Michigan SPARC brings together scientists from LANL and U-M, focusing cutting-edge science to answer mission-critical questions.  U-M students and postdocs are an integral part of our collaboration, working on interdisciplinary teams to tackle huge multi-physics challenges.

Areas of Research

AI

Team: Brian Bell, Earl Larwence (LANL), Karthik Duraisamy, Alex Goredetsky, JJ Park, Venkat Raman, Venkat Viswanathan (U-M)

Advanced Algorithms

Team: Josh Dolence, Jonah Miller, Patrick Mullen, Chad Meyer (LANL), Karthik Duraisamy, Alex Goredetsky, Brendan Kochunas (U-M)

Materials

Team: Ping Yang, Shizing Lin, Nitin Daphalapurkar, Ben Negben (LANL), Vikram Gavini, Kai Sun, Jacinto Ulloa, Y Z (U-M)

Turbulence

Fluid turbulence is a highly non-linear and chaotic process that is ubiquitous in engineering applications.  At SPARC, we are particularly interested in turbulence, and transition to turbulence, at interfaces of fluids with different physical properties.  Our focus areas include transition in Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov unstable flows; direct-numerical simulation of multi-species turbulence; advancing the frontiers of modeling using both Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes and hybrid RANS/LES methods; and modeling turbulent thermonuclear combustion.

Team: Daniel Israel (LANL), Karthik Duraisamy, Aaron Towne (U-M)

Inertial Confinement Fusion

Team: Josh Sauppe (LANL), Carolyn Kuranz (U-M)

Codesign of Software and Hardware

Team: Galen Shipman (LANL), Scott Mahlke, Reetu Das (LANL)

Nuclear Engineering

Team: Robert Weinmann-Smith (LANL), Sara Pozzi (U-M)