Ralph Menikoff

Technical Staff Member

Detonation Theory and Application, Group T-14

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Research Interests

Hydrodynamics

Shock waves and wave patterns
Equations of state
Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Detonation Physics

Initiation mechanisms
Curvature effect of detonation waves

Mathematical Physics

Hyperbolic PDES
Conformal maps
Representations of the diffeomorphism group

Computational Physics

Computational fluid dynamics
Multi-Scale algorithms for elliptic PDEs

Kyle's Course

Talks

Preprints

Lecture Notes

Equation of State Library

address

Theoretical Division
Mail Stop B-214
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

e-mail

rtm@lanl.gov

phone

(505) 667-7761

fax

(505) 667-1483

WWW

t14web.lanl.gov/Staff/rsm/rsm.html

Some other pages of interest:
Group T-14 homepage.

Last updated: June 19, 2007
Ralph Menikoff rtm@lanl.gov