Dr. Sam Miller is an Assistant Scientist in the Integrated Modeling Group with a background in computational fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic instabilities, inertial confinement fusion, and high–performance computing. He received a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida with a focus on gas-turbine engine design. Upon completion of his undergraduate studies, he served as a commissioned officer and developmental aerospace engineer in the United States Air Force for five years. He received a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Dayton, advised by Professor Markus Rumpfkeil. His graduate thesis focused on fluid-structure interaction and computational fluid–dynamics simulations. His doctoral thesis at the University of Rochester focused on hydrodynamic instabilities encountered in inertial confinement fusion implosions and his advisors were Drs. Valeri Goncharov and Radha Bahukutumbi. His doctoral research included high-fidelity simulations of micron-scale internal defects in cryogenic targets and described how these defects evolve and create seeds for hydrodynamic instability growth.
He is currently working in collaboration with Drs. Marty Marinak and Scott Sepke of Lawrence Livermore National Labs investigating low-noise laser ray–trace algorithms in the radiation-hydrodynamics code HYDRA. He is also researching advanced hydrodynamic methods in conjunction with modern high–performance computing software development.
A list of Dr. Miller’s publications can be found here.
