Center for Computing Research (CCR)

Center for Computing Research

Allen C. Robinson

Allen C. Robinson
Computational Multiphysics
Email: acrobin@sandia.gov
Phone: 505/844-6614
Fax: 505/844-2623

Mailing address:
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800, MS 1323
Albuquerque, NM
87185-1320

Dr. Allen C. Robinson is a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Since starting work at Sandia in 1983 his interests have included shaped charge modeling and subsonic jet flow, Rayleigh-Taylor instability in solids and parallel computing for shock physics modeling. He has made major contributions to the development of algorithms associated with ALEGRA, an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian multi-physics simulation code, in particular relative to electromechanical and magnetohydrodynamic modeling. Current interests include the characterization and propagation of uncertainty in multi-scale predictive modeling, structure preserving discretizations and next generation multiphysics modeling algorithms and software implementations.

Education/Background

1984, PhD, Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Thesis: Existence and Stability of Vortices and Vortex Arrays'

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Fellowship, Caltech,1981-83;
Earle C. Anthony Graduate Fellowship, Caltech, 1979-80;

1979, BS, Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Orson Pratt Award for top graduating senior in mathematics, 1979;
Graduated Cum Laude with Highest Honors in Honors Program, 1979;

Projects

ALEGRA

Selected Publications & Presentations

2021	Laity, George Russell, Allen C. Robinson, Michael E. Cuneo, Mary Kathleen Alam, Kristian R. C. Beckwith, Nichelle Lee Bennett, Matthew Tyler Bettencourt, Stephen D. Bond, Kyle Cochrane, Louise Criscenti, Eric Christopher Cyr, Karen June De Zetter, Richard R. Drake, Evstati Georgiev Evstatiev, Andrew S. Fierro, Thomas Anthony Gardiner, Forrest W. Glines, Ronald S. Goeke, Nathaniel Donald Hamlin, Russell Hooper, Jason Koski, James Matthew Doyle Lane, Steven Robert Larson, Kevin Leung, Duncan Alisdair Odum McGregor, Philip R. Miller, Sean M. Miller, Susan Jasmin Ossareh, Edward Geoffrey Phillips, Nicholas A. Roberds, Charles Edgar Rose, John N. Shadid, Sidney Shields, Sean C. Simpson, David Sirajuddin, Thomas M. Smith, Matthew Scot Swan, Aidan P. Thompson, Julien Guy Tranchida, Dale R. Welch, Thomas C. Genoni, Carsten Thoma, Alex Russell, Eric D. Watson, David V. Rose, John Williams, Azer Yalin, Ryan D. McBride, Trevor J. Smith, "Towards Predictive Plasma Science and Engineering through Revolutionary Multi-Scale Algorithms and Models,Final Report," SAND Report, January 2021. Robinson, Allen C., Richard R. Drake, Matthew Scot Swan, Nichelle Lee Bennett, Thomas M. Smith, Russell Hooper, George Russell Laity, "A software environment for effective reliability management for pulsed power design," Journal Article, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 211, Article No. 107580, Accepted/Published July 2021.
2020	Kramer, Richard Michael Jack, Eric Christopher Cyr, Sean Miller, Edward Geoffrey Phillips, Gregg Arthur Radtke, Allen C. Robinson, John N. Shadid, "A Plasma Modeling Hierarchy and Verification Approach," SAND Report, March 2020. Leung, Kevin, Louise Criscenti, Allen C. Robinson, "Quasi-equilibrium predictions of water desorption kinetics from rapidly-heated metal oxide surfaces," Journal Article, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 32, No. 33, p. 335101, Accepted/Published May 2020. Robinson, Allen C., Andrew James Porwitzky, "Pulsed Power Accelerator Surface Joule Heating Models," Journal Article, Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 27, No. 10, Article No. 103103, Accepted/Published October 2020.
2019	Robinson, Allen C., "The Mie-Gruneisen Power Equation of State," SAND Report, May 2019.
2018	McGregor, Duncan Alisdair Odum, Allen C. Robinson, "An indirect ALE discretization of single fluid plasma without a fast magnetosonic time step restriction," Journal Article, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Vol. 78, pp. 417–436, Accepted/Published November 2018. McGregor, Duncan Alisdair Odum, Allen C. Robinson, "Improving the fidelity of simulations of power flow and target design on Sandia's Z machine - an Efficient Generalized Ohm's Law Modeling Approach in a Traditional Lagrangian-Eulerian Computational Framework," Presentation, NNSA Technical Seminar, invited talk, March 2018.
2017	McGregor, Duncan Alisdair Odum, Allen C. Robinson, "An ALE Approach to XMHD," Presentation, MULTIMAT, September 2017. McGregor, Duncan Alisdair Odum, Allen C. Robinson, "Progress toward 3D Extended MHD modeling in an ALE Framework in Alegra ," Presentation, Z Fundamental Science Program Workshop, invited talk, July 2017.
2016	Ashcraft, C. Chace, John H. J. Niederhaus, Allen C. Robinson, "Verification and Validation of a Coordinate-Transformation Method in Axisymmetric Transient Magnetics," SAND Report, January 2016. Lemke, Raymond W., Daniel H. Dolan, Devon G. Dalton, Justin Brown, K. Tomlinson, Grafton Kincannon Robertson, Marcus D. Knudson, Eric Harding, Ann E. Mattsson, John H. Carpenter, Richard R. Drake, Kyle Cochrane, B. E. Blue, Allen C. Robinson, Thomas Mattsson, "Probing off-Hugoniot states in Ta, Cu, and Al to 1000GPa compression with magnetically driven liner implosions," Journal Article, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 119, Article No. 015904, Accepted/Published January 2016. Robinson, Allen C., "Multiphysics Shock Modeling with ALEGRA and Student Contributions ," Presentation, November 2016.
2015	Robinson, Allen C., John H. Carpenter, Bert Debusschere, "A UQ Enabled Aluminum Tabular Multiphase Equation-of-State Model," Presentation, MultiMat 2015, September 2015. Robinson, Allen C., "Electromagnetic Continuum Mechanics in ALEGRA and Moving toward Uncertainty Quantification in Predictive Design," Presentation, May 2015. Robinson, Allen C., "Multiphysics Lagrangian/Eulerian Modeling and de Rham Complex Based Algorithms," Presentation, SIAM CSE 2015, March 2015.
2014	Carpenter, John H., Ann Elisabet Wills, Allen C. Robinson, Richard R. Drake, William J. Rider, Bert Debusschere, "Lessons From Uncertainty Propagation Using Tabular, Multiphase Equations of State," Presentation, NECDC 2014, Los Alamos, NM, October 2014. Hanks, Bradley W., Allen C. Robinson, "Investigation of ALEGRA Shock Hydrocode Algorithms Using an Exact Free Surface Jet Flow Solution," SAND Report, January 2014.
2013	Robinson, Allen C., "Foundations for Predictive Engineering Design in Extreme Environments in the 21st Century," Presentation, Army Science Planning and Strategy Meeting on Materials in Extreme Environments, December 2013. Robinson, Allen C., John H. Carpenter, Ann E. Mattsson, William J. Rider, Robert D. Berry, Bert J. Debusschere, Richard R. Drake, "Fundamental issues in the representation and propagation of uncertain equation of state information in shock hydrodynamics," Journal Article, Computers and Fluids, Vol. 83, pp. 187–193, Accepted/Published August 2013. Robinson, Allen C., "Lagrangian/Eulerian Multiphysics Modeling and DeRham Complex Based Algorithms," Presentation, High Resolution Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Involution-Constrained PDEs, September 2013.
2011	Robinson, Allen C., V. Gregory Weirs, John Henry Niederhaus, Edward Love, "Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian 3D Ideal MHD Algorithms," Journal Article, Int. Journal Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 65, pp. 1438–1450, Accepted/Published April 2011. Robinson, Allen C., "On the Utility of the Boris Approach for Dealing with Fast Magnetosonic Wave Speeds in an ALE MHD Modeling Context," Presentation, 11th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 2011.
2009	Robinson, Allen C., "A Comparison of Lagrangian/Eulerian Approaches for Tracking the Kinematics of High Deformation Solid Motion," SAND Report, September 2009.
2008	Rider, William J, Allen C Robinson, the rest of the ALEGRA Team, "ALEGRA: An Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Multimaterial, Multiphysics Code," Conference Paper, AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 2008.
2005	Ketcheson, David I., Allen C. Robinson, "On the practical importance of the SSP property for Runge-Kutta time integrators for some common Godunov-type schemes," Journal Article, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, Accepted/Published May 2005.
2003	Bochev, Pavel B., Christopher J. Garasi, Jonathan J. Hu, Allen C. Robinson, Raymond S. Tuminaro, "An Improved Algebraic Multigrid Method for Solving Maxwell's Equations," Journal Article, SIAM J. Sci. Comp, Accepted/Published April 2003. Lemke, Raymond W., Marcus D. Knudson, Allen C. Robinson, Thomas A. Haill, Kenneth W. Struve, James R. Asay, Thomas A. Mehlhorn, "Self-consistent, two-dimensional, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetically driven flyer plates," Journal Article, Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 1867–1874, Accepted/Published May 2003.
2001	Bochev, Pavel B., Allen C. Robinson, "Matching Algorithms with Physics: Exact Sequences of Finite Element Spaces," Book, Collected Lectures on Preservation of Stability Under Discretization, June 2001.

Awards & Recognition


2013	Robinson, Allen C., Advisory Board, National Advisory Board for the Applied and Computational Mathematics Emphasis, Brigham Young University Mathematics Department, http://www.acme.byu.edu, October 2, 2013.
1994	Crawford, David A., Mark B. Boslough, Timothy G. Trucano, Allen C. Robinson, Best Paper/Poster, Best Paper Award, "The Impact of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter", Hypervelocity Impact Society , October 17, 1994.