Physics
Physics Projects
Three-dimensional Simulations for Core Collapse Supernovae
Principal Investigator: Anthony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryJaguar: 30,000,000 hours
Core-collapse supernovas are the death throes of massive stars. They are the single most important source of elements in the …
Turbulent Heating of Astrophysical Plasmas
Principal Investigator: Gregory Howes, University of IowaJaguar: 18,000,000 hours
Kinetic plasma theory is notoriously complicated, involving a huge range of spatio-temporal scales. With current resources, it is not possible …
Unraveling the Physics of Magnetic Reconnection with 3D Kinetic Simulations
Principal Investigator: William Daughton, Los Alamos National LaboratoryJaguar: 37,000,000 hours
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma physics process that converts magnetic energy into particle energy and plays a critical role …
Petascale Simulations of Type 1a Supernovae
Principal Investigator: Stan Woosley,, University of California, Santa CruzJaguar: 46,000,000 hours
The purpose of this project is to study four key stages of Type Ia supernovas: the long-time convection that leads …
How High Redshift Galaxies Reionized the Universe
Principal Investigator: Michael Norman, University of California-San DiegoJaguar: 32,000,000 hours
The objective of this project is to critically test whether the population of high redshift galaxies discovered by the Hubble …
The Solution of Three-Dimensional PWR Neutronics Benchmark Problems for CASL
Principal Investigator: Thomas Evans, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryJaguar: 19,000,000 hours
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) is developing a virtual reactor simulation toolkit designed to use …
Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions
Principal Investigator: James Vary, Iowa State UniversityJaguar: 37,000,000 hours
Developing a comprehensive description of all nuclei (stable and unstable) and their reactions requires investigations of rare and exotic isotopes …
Petascale Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Plasma Based Accelerators
Principal Investigator: Warren Mori, University of California, Los AngelesJaguar: 19,000,000 hours
The long-term future of experimental high-energy physics research using accelerators depends on the successful development of novel ultra-high-gradient acceleration methods. …
Lattice QCD
Principal Investigator: Paul Mackenzie, FermilabJaguar: 46,000,000 hours
Using leadership-class computing to advance lattice quantum chromodynamics and other strongly coupled field theories, the team’s research addresses fundamental questions …
Electromagnetic Effects on Gyrokinetic Simulations of Plasma Microturbulence
Principal Investigator: Eric Wang, Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryJaguar: 14,000,000 hours
The project uses two advanced plasma microturbulence codes, GYRO and GS2, for nonlinear, electromagnetic simulations of tokamak plasma microturbulence. The …
Magnetic Reconnection in High-Energy-Density Laser-Produced Plasmas
Principal Investigator: Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of New HampshireJaguar: 14,000,000 hours
Magnetic reconnection—the process by which the magnetic topology in plasmas is rearranged—is ubiquitous in fusion, space and astrophysical plasmas. It …
Petascale PIC Simulations of Laser-Plasma Interactions in IFE Plasmas
Principal Investigator: Frank Tsung, University of California, Los AngelesJaguar: 14,000,000 hours
UCLA’s plasma simulation group has a long history of expertise in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, leadership-class computing, data reduction and visualization, …
Investigation of Multi-Scale Transport Physics of Fusion Experiments Using Global Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations
Principal Investigator: Weixing Wang, Princeton Plasma Physics LaboratoryJaguar: 19,000,000 hours
The development of magnetic fusion as a secure and reliable energy source that is environmentally and economically sustainable is a …
