Brad Lee Holian Electronic Mail Address blh@lanl.gov Phone Numbers 505-667-2097 (group office) 505-665-3909 (fax) Paper Address Group T-12, MS B268 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 (USA) Lab Location TA-03 Bldg 0471 Room 112

Research Interests:

• -- Nonequilibrium processes in fluids and solids, primarily in the areas of shock waves, defects in solids, mechanisms of plastic flow in solids and viscous flow in fluids, material failure (including fracture), friction (tribology), and transport phenomena; theories of microscopic (atomistic) mechanisms of phase transitions and energy flow in shock waves and detonations; application of molecular dynamics and continuum mechanics computer simulations to materials behavior under extreme conditions; design of materials models (constitutive, failure, and equation of state) using nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. Large-scale molecular dynamics is done on massively parallel computers. Particularly in three dimensions, the length scale for solids can be quite large, necessitating heroic efforts, as represented by the SPaSM ("Scalable Parallel Short-range Molecular dynamics") team --- Brad Holian, Peter Lomdahl, Jim Hammerberg, Tim Germann, and Kai Kadau.

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