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Leadership
Michael Ortiz, the Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, will be the Director and Principal Investigator with overall technical and management responsibility. Dr. Mark Stalzer, the Executive Director of CACR, will serve as program Executive Director and will be responsible for day-to-day operations as well as other activities as delegated by Prof. Ortiz. Both Prof. Ortiz and Dr. Stalzer report directly to Prof. Ares Rosakis, the Chair of Caltech’s Division of Engineering and Applied Science and an officer of the Institute.
The Center is divided into five groups, each with a Group Leader. The groups, leaders, and basic responsibilities are as follows:
- Computational Fluid Dynamics, Dr. Dan Meiron: Eulerian simulation capability including multiphase flows and plasmas.
- Computational Science and Engineering, Dr. Michael Aivazis: Simulation facility component architecture, management of the component development and integration process, source code control, regression testing, documentation and distribution, utilization of NNSA facilities, scalable parallel algorithms, and scientific visualization.
- Experimental Science, Prof. Ares J. Rosakis: Integrated and component experimental campaigns, including development, management and operation of the Small Particle Hypervelocity Range (SPHR) facility and the High Strain-Rate Testing (HSRT) facility.
- Solid Dynamics and Materials, Prof. Michael Ortiz: Materials properties, including plasmas, high P-T multiphase EoS, Fast Multiscale Models, spall, fracture; Lagrangian simulation capability including adaptive finite elements, parallel integrators, fragmentation, and particle methods.
- Uncertainty Quantification, Prof. Houman Owhadi: Development of quantification-of-margins-and-uncertainties (QMU) methodology, oversight of QMU process and implementation, and experimental/computational campaign coordination.
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