Sherwood Richers

2018

Sherwood Andrew Richers III (2018): Neutrino Radiation Transport and Other Topics in High Energy Density Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology Library Services, CaltechTHESIS, Vol Doctoral dissertation

2017

Sherwood Richers, Hiroki Nagakura, Christian Ott, Joshua Dolence, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, and Shoichi Yamada (2017): A Detailed Comparison of Multi-Dimensional Boltzmann Neutrino Transport Methods in Core-Collapse Supernovae, Zenodo, Zenodo (website)
Sherwood Richers, Christian D. Ott, Ernazar Abdikamalov, Evan O'Connor, and Chris Sullivan (2017): Equation of State Effects on Gravitational Waves from Rotating Core Collapse, Physical Review D, American Physical Society, Vol 95, Num 6, pp063019
Sherwood Richers, Hiroki Nagakura, Christian D. Ott, Joshua Dolence, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, and Shoichi Yamada (2017): A Detailed Comparison of Multidimensional Boltzmann Neutrino Transport Methods in Core-collapse Supernovae, Astrophysical Journal, The American Astronomical Society, Vol 847, Num 2, pp133

2015

Sherwood Richers and Daniel Kasen and Evan O’Connor and Rodrigo Fernández and Christian D. Ott (2015): Monte Carlo Neutrino Transport through Remnant Disks from Neutron Star Mergers, Astrophysical Journal, The American Astronomical Society, Vol 813, Num 1, pp38

2014

Philipp Mösta, Sherwood Richers, Christian D. Ott, Roland Haas, Anthony L. Piro, Kristen Boydstun, Ernazar Abdikamalov, Christian Reisswig, and Erik Schnetter (2014): Magnetorotational Core-Collapse Supernovae in Three Dimensions, Astrophysical Journal Letters, The American Astronomical Society, Vol 785, Num 2, ppL29

2017

Blue Waters Graduate Fellow: Sherwood Richers


Oct 31, 2016

My primary interest in neutrino transport has a couple of objectives. Let's look at core-collapse supernovae first. The big problem in this field is that observers watch stars explode on a daily basis, but when we put the most complete set of physics possible in the largest simulations running on supercomputers (like Blue Waters), they don't consistently explode. Something is missing, and that something might be a proper treatment of neutrino transport. The equations describing neutrino transport are notoriously difficult to simulate, so they have to be heavily approximated, but I am trying to remove as much of the approximation as I can.


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Ten PhD students from across the country selected as Blue Waters Graduate Fellows


Apr 19, 2016

Ten outstanding computational science PhD students from across the country have been selected to receive Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships for 2016-2017. The fellowship program, now in its third year, provides substantial support and the opportunity to leverage the petascale power of National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois’s Blue Waters supercomputer to advance their research. The awards are made to outstanding PhD graduate students who have decided to incorporate high performance computing and data analysis into their research.


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