My objectives are to be thoughtful, provocative, and hopefully give you something to think about after you are done reading.
Who am I anyway?
I am a retired computational physicist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I used work on government-funded research in modeling and simulation. I spent my career at two of the Nation’s premier research institutions, Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs. In addition, I am an active contributor to Verification and Validation (V&V) with a focus on developing methods for conducting verification analysis and quality frameworks. At the end of my career, I worked on machine learning and will express my thoughts on that topic.
I worked at Sandia National Labs for about 19 years. Prior to that, I was at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 18 years. I have expertise in hydrodynamics (incompressible to shock), V&V, UQ, numerical analysis, interface tracking, turbulence modeling, nonlinear coupled physics modeling, nuclear engineering. I plan to write something on all of these topics. The end of my career was notable for the complete lack of value Sandia places on expertise, knowledge, and experience. The Lab places an emphasis on subservience and compliance. I am deeply worried about the decline of the labs and how it reflects the decline of the nation particularly in scinece.
I’ve written two books and lots of papers on these and other topics.
My most cited paper is on interface tracking, “Revisiting Volume Tracking” which has an interesting story related to the gap between why you write a paper and why a paper gets cited. I wrote that paper with Doug Kothe. Here is the citation:
Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 141, Issue 2, 10 April 1998, Pages 112–152.
My two books are
The Regularized Singularity 
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Bill your blog is just great. Please continue.
Raphael, Thanks although one of the main objectives is just to write regularly and using a different style than the usual academic prose. I try to post something weekly.
This blog is fantastic to me. Many useful ideas and inspiring things. Thank you.
Hello
something you might want to contribute to
https://www.computer.org/cise/2017/03/01/supercomputing-enabled-advances-in-science-engineering-call-for-papers/
Just found your blog. Thanks for your voice and insights supporting the rational foundations for real human values. I’ll be back to visit. Hope the dolphins survive.
Hi, I’m starting in the field of CFD and starting to check out your blog. I find that you have a particular style of writing, and every post that I read so far contains very interesting ideas and concepts, several of which I agree with. Keep the good work.
Thanks so much for the kind words! I wish you all the best in your endeavor. Can I ask where you are getting your start?
Hi Bill,
Have you taksn down your blog posts? I greatly enjoyed your blog but I wasn’t able to find any of them when I wanted to show them to a colleague. Is that intentional?
Unfortunately yes. It was intentional. I am under threat. I expect to put them back up when the danger has past. When I do, I will explain fully.
I would be happy to email the post you’d like to share. Things will eventually return in a few months. Bill
Be safe.