Michael Sorice

Michael Sorice
Mathematical Modeling and Analysis, T-7
Mail Stop B284
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Phone: +1.505.665.2155
Fax: +1.505.665.5757
Email: msorice@lanl.gov

Research Interests

• Basic plasma physics
• Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
• Lie group theory
• Applications of symmetry group methods to difference equations

Current Research

• Integration of raytrace-based laser physics in adaptive-mesh-refinement (AMR) hydrodynamics code (hydrocode) cassio for modeling of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) above-ground experiments (AGEX)
• Integration of MHD in AMR hydrocode RAGE
• Algorithmic generation of grids with numerical solenoidality as a difference invariant for numerical MHD

Education

• Ph.D. (pending) in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, expected 2010
• M.S. (pending) in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, expected 2008
• B.S. in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005