Steven J. Plimpton
Steven J. Plimpton is an American physicist and computer scientist.
He received his PhD in physical engineering from Cornell University in 1989 and is with Sandia National Laboratories .
Plimpton deals with simulations on high-performance parallel computers, mostly for materials science and simulations of molecular dynamics (LAMMPS code, which was widely used). Other software he has developed for modeling materials on a microscopic level is SPPARKS (Monte Carlo Modeling of Material Processing on the Mesoscale) and SPARTA ( Direct Simulation Monte Carlo for modeling turbulence and flow in low-density gases).
In 2017 he received the Sidney Fernbach Award for high-performance simulation environments that advanced research in materials science, chemistry, biology and related fields.
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- Fast parallel algorithms for short-range molecular dynamics, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 117, 1995, pp. 1-19
- with CL Kelchner, JC Hamilton: Dislocation nucleation and defect structure during surface indentation, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 58, 1998, p. 11085
- with C. Donati a. a .: Dynamical heterogeneities in a supercooled Lennard-Jones liquid, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 79, 1997, p. 2827
- with C. Donati a. a .: Stringlike cooperative motion in a supercooled liquid, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 80, 1998, p. 2338
- with LE Silbert u. a .: Granular flow down an inclined plane: Bagnold scaling and rheology, Phys. Rev. E, Volume 64, 2001, p. 051302
- with CR Sovinec u. a .: Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics simulation using high-order finite elements, J. Comput. Physics, Volume 195, 2004, pp. 355-386
- with P. Crozier, A. Thompson: LAMMPS-large-scale atomic / molecular massively parallel simulator, Sandia Labs 2007
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Plimpton, Steven J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist and computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |