Title: A Very Brief History of Hydrodynamic Codes (i.e. Hydrocodes)

Speaker: Bill Rider, Sandia National Laboratories

Date/Time: Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Location: CSRI Building, Room 90 (Sandia NM)

Abstract: This lecture was originally part of a 28 lecture course on Eulerian hydrodynamics. For most of the world hydrodynamic codes are typically Eulerian, but at the NNSA labs Lagrangian codes are prime in importance. This is a consequence of the applications of interest and the use of computations when computer technology was quite primitive. In the early post war years (WW II), the art of computational physics arose from the needs of National Security applications driven by the vision of John Von Neumann. In this lecture I will hit the highlights of these developments that provide the initial conditions for the explosion of applications currently attempted. The goal of the lecture is to provide the audience with a basic context and history of the codes used at the NNSA labs.

CSRI POC: Mike Parks, 845-0512