Engineer Engineering

John W. Peterson

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Idaho Falls, ID 83404 abpfzh@r.postjobfree.com

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, May 2008

Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Overall GPA: 3.8125

Advisor: G. F. Carey

Parallel Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Problems in Natural Convection. Developed

adaptive nite element solution methods for solving the system of nonlinear PDEs governing

combined buoyant and surface-tension-driven Rayleigh-B nard-Marangoni ow. Mapped

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large region of parameter space with combined unsteady and pseudo-arclength continuation

procedures, and made qualitative comparisons with experimental results.

Master of Science in Engineering, May 2003

Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Overall GPA: 3.70/4.0

Advisor: G. F. Carey

A Numerical Investigation of B nard Convection in Small Aspect Ratio Containers. Numeri-

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cal simulations of Rayleigh-B nard-Marangoni ow are conducted for heated uid layers of

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small aspect ratio in polygonal containers. Distinct steady-state patterns with 1-8 convection

cells are found for a range of aspect ratios between 3 and 11.

Bachelor of Science (with Honors), August 2001

Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Overall GPA: 3.79/4.0

Experience

Feb 2011 Present, Scientist/Engineer Level 3, Idaho National Labratory. Member of

the Frameworks team in the Fuels Performance Group. Responsible for developing multi-

physics applications related to various aspects of nuclear fuels simulation.

May 2008 Feb 2011, Research Associate, Texas Advanced Computing Center. Member

of the High Performance Computing (HPC) group. Responsible for consulting with center

users and improving parallel ef ciency of their applications.

Fall 2010, Lecturer, SSC 222 Introduction to Scienti c Programming. Team teaching

with Dr. Lars Koesterke.

Fall 2007, Teaching Assistant, CAM 394F Introduction to FEM. With Prof. Mary

F. Wheeler.

Fall 2006, Lecturer, ME 330 Fluid Mechanics. Organized, taught, and evaluated a full

section of 35 students.

Spring 2006, Teaching Assistant, ASE 362K Compressible Fluid Mechanics. With

Prof. D. S. Dolling.

May 2004 May 2008, CFDLab Manager, University of Texas at Austin. With Dr. Gra-

ham F. Carey, responsible for day-to-day system administration tasks as well as purchasing

new equipment and performing system upgrades for approximately 25 Linux workstations

and a 16-node Beowulf cluster.

Sep 2001 May 2004, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin.

With Dr. Graham F. Carey, participated in numerous object-oriented software development

projects including nite element, meshing, and graphics applications.

Jan 2000 Aug 2001, Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin.

With Dr. Graham F. Carey, responsible for research assignments related to nite element

shape quality in adaptively-re ned moving-mesh applications, and daily maintenance of the

Lab s website.

Sep 1999 Dec 1999, Co-Op Engineer, LinCom Corporation, Johnson Space Center.

Worked on a project to devise a navigational aid for modules docking with the International

Space Station. Developed the C source code for an iterative method of solving the Clohessy-

Wiltshire equations of motion.

Jun 1999 Aug 1999, Summer Intern, Institute for Advanced Technology. Analyzed the

dynamics of the Lunar Prospector spacecraft s moon impact. Used commercial impact soft-

ware to model possible debris plumes created by the Prospector after its controlled descent

to the moon s surface.

Misc. Academic Experience

Guest Lecturer

Apr 2010, SSC 222, Intro. to Scienti c Programming

Nov 2007, CAM 397, Intro. to Mathematical Modeling

Jun 2007, EM F397, Num. Simul. Transport in Semiconductors

Apr 2005, EM 393N, Num. Meth. for Flow & Transport

Nov 2005, EM 397.4, Grid Generation and Adaptive Grids

Oct 2005, ASE 211, Engineering Computation

Peer Reviewer

Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer

Int. J. Numerical Methods in Fluids

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Transactions on Mathematical Software

Computer Skills

Programming Languages: C/C++

Software: LibMesh, Maple, Matlab/Octave, tecplot, LTEX, cubit, GMV, cvs/svn, git

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APIs: MPI, openGL, tk, PETSc

Linux System Administration: RAID, NFS, emacs, vi, make, bash, autoconf, LVM

Awards

Outstanding Paper Award, 2011. For Multi-resolution simulation of double-diffusive con-

vection in porous media, IJNMHFF, with B. T. Murray and G. F. Carey. http://www.

emeraldinsight.com/authors/literati/index.htm

NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program Fellow, 2002-2004

University of Texas Thrust 2000 Graduate Fellow, 2001-2004

College of Engineering Boeing Scholarship, 2001

Aerospace Engineering Ching Yew Scholarship, 1999

AIAA Spirit of Apollo Scholarship, 1998

Aerospace Engineering Daniel M. Luna Scholarship, 1998

Publications

[1] D. J. Knezevic and J. W. Peterson, A High-Performance Parallel Implementation of the

Certi ed Reduced Basis Method, Comput. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng., vol. 200, pp. 1455

1466, Mar. 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2010.12.026.

[2] D. B. P. Huynh, D. J. Knezevic, J. W. Peterson, and A. T. Patera, High-Fidelity Real-

Time Simulation on Deployed Platforms, Computers & Fluids, vol. 43, pp. 74 81, Apr.

2011. Special issue dedicated to Prof. Michel Deville, Symposium on High Accuracy Flow

Simulations (HAFS), Ecole Polytechnique F d rale de Lausanne, February 15 16, 2010,

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.07.007.

[3] J. W. Peterson and G. F. Carey, Parallel adaptive solution of coupled Rayleigh B nard

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Marangoni problems with Navier-slip, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, vol. 66, pp. 428 451,

June 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.2264.

[4] J. W. Peterson, G. F. Carey, and B. T. Murray, Multi-Resolution Simulation of Double-

Diffusive Convection in Porous Media, Int. J. Numer. Meth. for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 20,

no. 1, pp. 37 65, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09615531011008118.

[5] J. W. Peterson, Analytical Formulae for Two of A. H. Stroud s Quadrature Rules, Sept.

2009. http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.5106v1.

[6] J. W. Peterson, Parallel Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Problems in Natural Convec-

tion. PhD thesis, ASE-EM dept., The University of Texas at Austin, May 2008. http:

//www.cfdlab.ae.utexas.edu/ peterson/diss.pdf.

[7] J. Steensland and J. W. Peterson, A Study of Dynamically Adaptive Partitioning for AMR,

in Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing

Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 07) Volume 2, (Las Vegas, NV), pp. 503 509, CSREA

Press, June 25 28, 2007. ISBN: 1-60132-021-3.

[8] J. W. Peterson, G. F. Carey, D. J. Knezevic, and B. T. Murray, Adaptive nite element

methodology for tumor angiogenesis modeling, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Eng., vol. 69, pp. 1212

1238, Feb. 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nme.1802.

[9] B. S. Kirk, J. W. Peterson, R. H. Stogner, and G. F. Carey, libMesh: A C++ Li-

brary for Parallel Adaptive Mesh Re nement/Coarsening Simulations, Engineering with

Computers, vol. 22, pp. 237 254, Dec. 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/

s00366-006-0049-3.

[10] G. F. Carey, W. Barth, B. S. Kirk, and J. W. Peterson, Parallel CFD for Flow and Transport

Applications Including Unstructured and Adaptive Grids, in Proceedings of Parallel CFD

2004: Multidisciplinary Applications, G. Winter, A. Ecer, J. Periaux, N. Satofuka and P. Fox

(Eds), (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Elsevier Science B.V., Oct. 2005. ISBN: 044*******.

[11] J. W. Peterson, A Numerical Investigation of B nard Convection in Small Aspect Ratio

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Containers, Master s Report, ASE-EM dept., The University of Texas at Austin, May 2003.

http://www.cfdlab.ae.utexas.edu/ peterson/masters.pdf.

Presentations

[12] J. W. Peterson, LibMesh: Experience and Usage. Presentation, Mar. 31, 2008. Invited

Speaker, DOD/PET Shortcourse on Parallel Adaptive Finite Element Simulation, Army Re-

search Lab, Aberdeen, MD.

[13] J. W. Peterson, Adaptive FEM for Applications. Presentation, Apr. 25, 2007. Invited Semi-

nar, Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS.

[14] J. W. Peterson, B. T. Murray, and G. F. Carey, Double-Diffusive Convection in Porous Me-

dia. Presentation, Mar. 26 28, 2007. 14th International Conference on Finite Elements in

Flow Problems, Santa Fe, NM.

[15] J. W. Peterson and G. F. Carey, Double-Diffusive Convection in Porous Media and Su-

perconvergent Boundary Flux Integrals. Presentation, Mar. 2007. Finite Element Rodeo,

Houston, TX.

[16] J. W. Peterson, B. T. Murray, and G. F. Carey, Adaptive Grid Strategies for FEM Simulations

of Double-Diffusive Convection in Porous Media. Presentation, Feb. 21, 2007. Graduate

And Industry Networking (GAIN) Conference, Austin, TX.

[17] J. W. Peterson, LibMesh: Experience and Usage. Presentation, Jan. 12, 2007. Invited

Speaker, DOD/PET Workshop on Parallel Adaptive Finite Element Simulation, Army Engi-

neer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS.

[18] J. W. Peterson, B. T. Murray, D. J. Knezevic, and G. F. Carey, A Stabilized h-Adaptive

Continuation Method for Double-Diffusive Convection in Porous Media. Presentation, Mar.

2006. Finite Element Rodeo, College Station, TX.

[19] J. W. Peterson, B. T. Murray, D. J. Knezevic, and G. F. Carey, Three-Dimensional, Adaptive

Finite Element Simulations of Thermosolutal Convection in Porous Media. Presentation,

July 2005. United States National Congress for Computational Mechanics VIII, Austin, TX.

[20] J. W. Peterson, B. S. Kirk, and G. F. Carey, Stabilized Adaptive Finite Element Methods.

Presentation, June 7, 2005. LibMesh Workshop, Austin, TX.

[21] J. W. Peterson, G. F. Carey, W. L. Barth, B. S. Kirk, and S. Iqbal, Parallel Computing on

Beowulf Clusters: Performance and Applications. Presentation, July 2004. SIAM Annual

Meeting, Portland, OR.

[22] G. F. Carey, L. Branets, S. Iqbal, B. S. Kirk, J. W. Peterson, and R. Stogner, Unstructured

Mesh Technology, Mesh Smoothing, and Adaptivity. Poster Presentation, Mar. 2004. Finite

Element Rodeo, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

[23] G. F. Carey, W. L. Barth, B. S. Kirk, J. W. Peterson, J. Woods, and M. Anderson, Finite

Elements for Flow and Transport. Poster Presentation, Oct. 2003. Center for Subsurface

Modeling Industrial Af liates Meeting, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

[24] G. F. Carey and J. W. Peterson, High Performance Computing in Finite Element Analysis.

Presentation, Aug. 2003. University of Manchester, UK.

[25] J. W. Peterson and B. S. Kirk, A Numerical Investigation of B nard Convection in Small As-

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pect Ratio Containers. Presentation, July 2003. United States National Congress for Com-

putational Mechanics VII, Albuquerque, NM.

[26] J. W. Peterson, Code Coupling: Microgravity Fluid Flow Meets Adaptive Mesh Re ne-

ment. Presentation, Aug. 2002. NASA, Visiting Students Enrichment Program, Goddard

Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.

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