Christopher Miller
- Program Years: 2015-2019
- Academic Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Field of Study: Mechanical Engineering
- Academic Advisor: Min Zhou
- Practicum(s):
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2016)
Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico (2018) - Degree(s):
PhD - Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019
M.S. - Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016
B.S. - Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 2014
Current Status
- Status: Material Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Research Area: Shock Initiation of Energetic Materials
- Contact Information: miller279@llnl.gov
Publications
1) Springer, K. et al., Simulating the effects of grain surface morphology on hot spot mechanisms in HMX with the development of a surrogate model for the reaction rate, Prop., Explos., Pyrotech. 2023, 48, e202200139.2) Coffelt, C. et al. Effect of void positioning on the detonation sensitivity of a heterogeneous energetic material, Journal of Applied Physics, 131(6), 065101. (2022)
3) Wei, Y., et al. Prediction of Probabilistic Shock Initiation Thresholds of Energetic Materials Through Evolution of Thermal-Mechanical Dissipation and Reactive Heating, ASME. J. Appl. Mech. September 2021; 88(9): 091005.
4) Christopher M. Miller and H. Keo Springer, Probabilistic effects of porosity and chemical kinetics on the shock initiation of an octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX) based explosive, Journal of Applied Physics 129, 215104 (2021)
5) Miller, C., et al. Three-dimensional microstructure-explicit and void-explicit mesoscale simulations of detonation of HMX at millimeter sample size scale, Journal of Applied Physics 127, 125105 (2020)
6) Wei, Y., et al. Computational Design of Three-Dimensional Multi-Constituent Material Microstructure Sets with Prescribed Statistical Constituent and Geometric Attributes. Multiscale Sci. Eng. 2, 7–19 (2020).
7) Miller, C., et al., Prediction of probabilistic pop plot via millimeter-scale microstructure-explicit and void-explicit simulations. Prop., Explos., Pyrotech. 2020, 45, 254.
8) Miller, C., et al., Ignition thresholds of aluminized HMX-based polymer-bonded explosives. AIP Advances, 2019. 9(4): p. 045103.
9) Miller, C., et al. Influence of chemistry in HMX-based PBX ignition. 16th International Detonation Symposium Conference Proceedings, 2018.
10) Roy, U., et al., Computational study of ignition behavior and hotspot dynamics of a potential class of aluminized explosives. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 2018. 26(8): p. 085004.
11) Kim, S., et al., Computational prediction of probabilistic ignition threshold of pressed granular octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,2,3,5-tetrazocine (HMX) under shock loading. Journal of Applied Physics, 2016. 120(11): p. 115902.
12) Chason, E., et al., Stress evolution during growth of 1-D island arrays: Kinetics and length scaling. Scripta Materialia, 2015. 97: p. 33-36.
13) Chason, E., et al., Growth of patterned island arrays to identify origins of thin film stress. Journal of Applied Physics, 2014. 115(12): p. 123519
Awards
1) LLNL Postdoc Research SLAM finalist (2022)2) Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship Recipient (2015-2019)
3) Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honor, CU Boulder (2014)
4) Deans List, CU Boulder (2010-2014)
5) President's Fellowship, Georgia Tech (2014)
6) Guy Kelley Scholarship - Engineering, CU Boulder (2012)
7) Hong Mechanical Engineering Scholarship, CU Boulder (2012)
8) DLC Research Scholarship, CU Boulder (2013)
9) Engineering RAP Award, CU Boulder (2013)