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Dr. Aidan P. Thompson,
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Multiscale Dynamic Material Modeling Department, 1435
Sandia National Laboratories
PO Box 5800, Mail Stop 1322
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1322
USA
Tel: +1 505 844 9702
Fax: +1 505 845 7442
E-mail: athompsATsandiaDOTgov
http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~athomps


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Aidan Thompson
Loosely speaking, my research deals with the development and application of algorithms for large-scale atomistic simulation of materials. This mostly means adding to and improving the methods available in the LAMMPS molecular dynamics (MD) package. The two biggest limitations of MD are the accuracy of interatomic potentials and accessible timescales, and so these are the things I am most interested in. I also sometimes work on a much faster method called KMC, and have helped develop a parallel KMC code called SPPARKS

Publications

    2009



  1. S. Jayaraman, A. P. Thompson, O. A. von Lilienfeld and E. J. Maginn, "Molecular simulation of the thermal and transport properties of three alkali nitrate salts," accepted Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res. (2009).

  2. A. P. Thompson, S. J. Plimpton, and W. Mattson, "General Formulation of Pressure and Stress Tensor for Arbitrary Many-body Interaction Potentials under Periodic Boundary Conditions," accepted J. Chem. Phys. (2009)

  3.  J. Budzien, A. P. Thompson, and S. V. Zybin, "Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Shock Through a Single Crystal of Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate," accepted J. Phys. Chem. (2009)

  4. A. P. Thompson, J. M. D. Lane , M. P. Desjarlais and M. I. Baskes, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Dynamic Response of Beryllium" APS SCCM Conf.Proc., accepted September 2009

  5. J. M. D. Lane and A. P. Thompson, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Shock-Induced Phase Transformation in Germanium," accepted APS SCCM Conf. Proc. (2009)

  6. A. A. Selezenev, A. Yu. Aleynikov, N. S. Ganchuk, P.V. Ermakov, S. N. Ganchuk,  J. B. Aidun, and A. P. Thompson, "Shock Compression Calculation of RDX and PETN Molecular Crystals using Hugoniostat Method," accepted APS SCCM Conf. Proc. (2009)

    2008



  7. J. Budzien, D. R. Rottach, J. G. Curro, C. S. Lo, A. P. Thompson, "A New Constitutive Model for the Chemical Aging of Rubber Networks in Deformed States," Macromolecules, 41 9896 (2008)

  8. A. Slepoy, A. P. Thompson, S. J. Plimpton, "A Constant-Time Kinetic Monte Carlo Algorithm for Simulation of Large Biochemical Reaction Networks," J. Chem. Phys. 128, 205101 (2008)

    2007



  9. A. Slepoy, M. D. Peters, and A. P. Thompson, "Searching for Globally Optimal Functional Forms for Interatomic Potentials Using Genetic Programming with Parallel Tempering," J. Comp. Chem., 28, 2465 (2007)

  10. J. Quenneville, T. C. Germann, A. P. Thompson, E. M. Kober, "Molecular dynamics studies of thermal induced chemistry in TATB," SCCM 2007, AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, 955 451-454 (2007).

    2006



  11. A. H. Edwards, A. C. Pineda, P. A. Schultz, M. G. Martin, A. P. Thompson, H. P. Hjalmarson, C. J. Umrigar, "Electronic structure of intrinsic defects in crystalline germanium telluride," Phys. Rev. B, 73 45210 (2006)

    2005



  12. A. H. Edwards, A. C. Pineda, P. A. Schultz, M. G. Martin, A. P. Thompson, H. P. Hjalmarson, "Theory of persistent, p-type, metallic conduction in c-GeTe," J. Phys.: Cond. Mat., 17, 329-35 (2005)

    2000-2004



  13. D. Rottach, J. G. Curro, G. S. Grest and A. P. Thompson, "Effect of Strain History on Stress and Permanent Set in Crosslinking Networks: A Molecular Dynamics Study," Macromolecules, 37, 5468 (2004).

  14. M. G. Martin and A. P. Thompson, "Industrial Property Prediction using Towhee and LAMMPS," Fluid Phase Equilibria, 217 105 (2004)

  15. A. P. Thompson, "Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Electroosmotic Flow in a Charged Nanopore,"  J. Chem. Phys., 119, 7503 (2003)

  16. Martin, M. G., Thompson A. P., and Nenoff, T. M., "Effect of Pressure, Membrane Thickness and Placement of Control Volumes on the Flux of Methane through Thin Silicalite Membranes" J. Chem. Phys. 114, 7174 (2001)

  17. Chandross M., Webb E. B., Grest G. S., Martin M. G., Thompson A. P., and Roth M. W., "Dynamics and Exchange at Gas-Zeolite Interfaces I: Pure Component Butane and Isobutane", J. Phys. Chem. B, 105, 5700 (2001)

  18. Rallabandi P. S., Thompson A. P., Ford D. M., "A molecular modeling study of entropic and energetic selectivities in air separation with glassy polymers", Macromolecules, 33, 3142 (2000)

  19. Frink L. J. D., Thompson A. P., Salinger A. G., "Applying molecular theory to steady-state diffusing systems", J. Chem. Phys. 112, 7564, (2000)

    1995-1999



  20. Thompson, A. P. and Heffelfinger, G. S., "Direct Molecular Simulation of Gradient Driven Diffusion of Large Molecules using Constant Pressure" J. Chem. Phys. 110 10693 (1999)

  21. Thompson, A. P., Ford, D. M., and Heffelfinger, G. S., "Direct Molecular Simulation of Gradient Driven Diffusion", J. Chem. Phys., 109, 6406 (1998).

  22. Thompson, A. P. and Glandt, E. D., "Polymers in Random Porous Materials: Structure, Thermodynamics and Concentration Effects" Macromolecules, 29, 4314 (1996).

  23. Ford, D. M., Thompson, A. P., and Glandt, E. D., "Thermodynamics of Fluids in Random Microporous Materials from Scaled Particle Theory," J. Chem. Phys., 103, 1099 (1995).

    1990-1994



  24. Thompson, A. P. and Glandt, E. D., "Adsorption of Polymeric Fluids in Microporous Materials. I. Ideal Freely-jointed Chains," J. Chem. Phys., 99, 8325 (1993).

  25. Thompson, A. P., Corti, D. S., Myers, A. L. and Glandt, E. D., "Irreversible Adsorption in Porous Materials," Fundamentals of Adsorption: Proc. IVth Int. Conf. on Fundamentals of Adsorption, p. 397 (Kodansha, 1993).

  26. Thompson, A. P. and Glandt, E. D., "Low Coverage Kinetics of Correlated Sequential Adsorption," Phys. Rev. A, 46, 4639 (1992).

  27. Thompson, A. P. and Glandt, E. D., "The Length of Intersection and the Number of Cusps in Assemblies of Interpenetrating Spheres," J. Chem. Phys., 97, 1932 (1992).

  28. Thompson, A. P. and Glandt, E. D., "Random Sequential Adsorption in Porous Solids," J. Colloid Interface Sci., 146, 63 (1991).

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