Derek Kuldinow | DOE NNSA SSGF

Program Year:

University:

Stanford University

Field of Study:

Multidisciplinary Computational Sciences

Advisor:

Kentaro Hara

Degree(s):

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, and B.S. Physics, Yale University, 2021

Practicum Experience(s)

Los Alamos National Laboratory (2024)

Practicum Supervisor(s):

William

Taitano

Practicum Title:

Development of a moment-conditioned, asymptotic preserving and mass, momentum and energy-conserving Particle-in-Cell solver for the Vlasov-Ampére system

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2023)

Practicum Supervisor(s):

David

Strozzi

Practicum Title:

Capturing Temperature Anisotropy with GORGON using a Ten-Moment Model

Annual Program Review Abstracts

10-Moment Multi-Fluid Simulations of Anisotropic Plasmas in Magnetic Fields (2024)

10-Moment Fluid Simulation of Partially Magnetized Plasmas (2023)

Publications

Sheng Mao, Derek Kuldinow, Mikko P. Haataja, and Andrej Kosmrlj. "Phase behavior and morphology of multicomponent liquid mixtures." Soft Matter, 15, no. 6 (2019): 1297-1311.

Derek Kuldinow, Kentaro Hara, Diego Morales, and Christopher Limbach. "Numerical Simulation of Laser and Particle Coupled Beam Propagation." AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2019 Forum, p. 3803. 2019.

Jittisa Ketkaew, Rui Yamada, Hui Wang, Derek Kuldinow, Benjamin Sol Schroers, Wojciech Dmowski, Takeshi Egami, and Jan Schroers. "The effect of thermal cycling on the fracture toughness of metallic glasses." Acta Materialia, 184 (2020): 100-108.

Andres M. Castillo, Derek Kuldinow, and Kentaro Hara. "Collisional effects in a laser and particle coupled beam." AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2020 Forum, p. 3519. 2020.

Prabhat Kumar, Derek Kuldinow, Andres Castillo, Alexandros Gerakis, and Kentaro Hara. "Nonlinear dynamics of coupled light and particle beam propagation." Physical Review 103, no. 4 (2021): 043502.

Derek Kuldinow, Alexis Przybylak, Yizhi Li, Luis J. Perez-Lorenzo, Derek Oberreit, and Juan Fernandez de la Mora. "Heterogeneous nucleation measurements in a sheathed planar diffusive condensation particle counter." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 605 (2022): 556-570.

Derek Kuldinow, Adnan Mansour and Kentaro Hara. "Development of 10-moment Fluid Model for Plasma Simulations." In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, p. 1564. 2022.

Derek Kuldinow, Adnan Mansour and Kentaro Hara. "Development of a Ten-Moment Fluid Model for Low-Temperature Magnetized Plasmas." In 2022 International Electric Propulsion Conference. 2022. IEPC-2022-327

D. A. Kuldinow, Y. Yamashita, A. R. Mansour, and K. Hara, "Ten-Moment Fluid Model with Heat Flux Closure for Gasdynamic Flows", Journal of Computational Physics 508, 113030 (2024)

D. A. Kuldinow, Y. Yamashita, and K. Hara, "Ten-moment fluid model for low-temperature magnetized plasmas", Physics of Plasmas (2024)

D. A. Kuldinow and K. Hara, "Ten-moment fluid modeling of the Weibel instability", Journal of Plasma Physics (2025) (Accepted)

D. A. Kuldinow, W. T. Taitano and K. Hara, "A High-Order Low-Order Vlasov-Darwin particle-in-cell algorithm", Journal of Computational Physics
(2025) (In preparation)

Awards

Recipient, 2022 Gaseous Electronics Conference Student Travel Grant
Recipient, Department of Energy NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (2022)
Recipient, NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity Fellowship (2021)
Recipient, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2021, Declined)
Tau Beta Pi Honors Society Member, Scholarship Recipient
Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society Member
Sigma Pi Sigma Honors Society Member
NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium Scholarship