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Selected Publications

2023

Blouin, S., Mao, H., Woods, T.E., Denissenkov, P., Woodward, P.R., Herwig, F. (2023). 3D hydrodynamics simulations of core convection in supermassive main-sequence stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521 (3), [4605-4613].
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad846

Blouin, S., Mao, H., Herwig, F., Denissenkov, P., Woodward, P.R., Thompson, W.R. (2023). 3D hydrodynamics simulations of internal gravity waves in red giant branch stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522 (2), [1706-1725].
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1115

2022

Andrassy, R., Higl, J., Mao, H., Mocák, M., Vlaykov, D.G., Arnett, W.D., Baraffe, I., Campbell, S.W., Constantino, T., Edelmann, P.V.F., Goffrey, T., Guillet, T., Herwig, F., Hirschi, R., Horst, L., Leidi, G., Meakin, C., Pratt, J., Rizzuti, F., Röpke, F.K., Woodward, P. (2022). Dynamics in a stellar convective layer and at its boundary: Comparison of five 3D hydrodynamics codes. Astronomy and Astrophysics. [A193].
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142557

2021

Stephens, D., Herwig, F., Woodward, P., Denissenkov, P., Andrassy, R., Mao, H. (2021). 3D1D hydro-nucleosynthesis simulations-I. Advective-reactive post-processing method and its application to H ingestion into He-shell flash convection in rapidly accreting white dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504 (1), [744-760].
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab500

2020

Andrassy, R., Herwig, F., Woodward, P., Ritter, C. (2020). 3D hydrodynamic simulations of C ingestion into a convective O shell. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491 (1), [972-992].
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2952

2019

Clarkson, O., Herwig, F., Andrassy, R., Woodward, P., Pignatari, M., Mao, H. (2019). H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars. In Formicola, A., Junker, M., Gialanella, L., Imbriani, G. (eds). Nuclei in the Cosmos XV. (321-325). (Springer Proceedings in Physics. 219. (0930-8989)). Springer Science and Business Media, LLC.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13876-9_56

Woodward, P.R., Lin, P.H., Mao, H., Andrassy, R., Herwig, F. (2019). Simulating 3-D Stellar Hydrodynamics using PPM and PPB Multifluid Gas Dynamics on CPU and CPU+GPU Nodes. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 1225 (1), [012020].
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1225/1/012020

Denissenkov, P.A., Herwig, F., Woodward, P., Andrassy, R., Pignatari, M., Jones, S. (2019). The i-process yields of rapidly accreting white dwarfs from multicycle He-shell flash stellar evolution models with mixing parametrizations from 3D hydrodynamics simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488 (3), [4258-4270].
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1921

2018

Ritter, C., Andrassy, R., Côté, B., Herwig, F., Woodward, P.R., Pignatari, M., Jones, S. (2018). Convective-reactive nucleosynthesis of K, Sc, Cl and p-process isotopes in O-C shell mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 474 (1), [L1-L6].
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slx126

Herwig, F., Andrassy, R., Annau, N., Clarkson, O., Côté, B., D'Sa, A., Jones, S., Moa, B., O'Connell, J., Porter, D., Ritter, C., Woodward, P. (2018). Cyberhubs: Virtual research environments for astronomy. Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 236 (1), [2].
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aab777

Woodward, P.R., Herwig, F., Wetherbee, T. (2018). Simulating stellar hydrodynamics at extreme scale. Computing in Science and Engineering. 20 (5), [8452054]. [8-17].
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2018.05329811

2017

Jones, S., Andrassy, R., Sandalski, S., Davis, A., Woodward, P.R., Herwig, F. (2017). Idealized hydrodynamic simulations of turbulent oxygen-burning shell convection in 4π geometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 465 (3), [2991-3010].
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2783

van Hoof, P.A.M., Herwig, F., Kimeswenger, S., Van de Steene, G.C., Avison, A., Zijlstra, A.A., Hajduk, M., Guzmán-Ramirez, L., Woodward, P.R. (2017). The i process in the post-AGB star v4334 Sgr. Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana - Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society. 88 (3), [463-466].
 

2016

Lin, P.H., Woodward, P.R. (2016). Transforming the multifluid PPM algorithm to run on GPUs. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. [56-65].
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2016.04.005

2015

Woodward, P.R., Herwig, F., Lin, P.H. (2015). Hydrodynamic simulations of h entrainment at the top of He-shell flash convection. Astrophysical Journal. 798 (1), [49].
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/798/1/49

Wetherbee, T., Jones, E., Knox, M., Sandalski, S., Woodward, P. (2015). In-Core volume rendering for cartesian grid fluid dynamics simulations. In Proceedings of the XSEDE 2015 Conference. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. 2015-July.). Association for Computing Machinery.
DOI: 10.1145/2792745.2792780

2014

Jayaraj, J., Lin, P.H., Woodward, P.R., Yew, P.C. (2014). CFD builder: A library builder for computational fluid dynamics. In Proceedings - IEEE 28th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2014. (1029-1038). (Proceedings - IEEE 28th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2014.). IEEE Computer Society.
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2014.117

Joggerst, C.C., Nelson, A., Woodward, P., Lovekin, C., Masser, T., Fryer, C.L., Ramaprabhu, P., Francois, M., Rockefeller, G. (2014). Cross-code comparisons of mixing during the implosion of dense cylindrical and spherical shells. Journal of Computational Physics. [154-173].
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2014.06.037

Herwig, F., Woodward, P.R., Lin, P.H., Knox, M., Fryer, C. (2014). Global non-spherical oscillations in three-dimensional 4π simulations of the h-ingestion flash. Astrophysical Journal Letters. 792 (1), [L3].
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/792/1/L3

Woodward, P.R., Jayaraj, J., Barrett, R. (2014). MPPM, Viewed as a co-design effort. In Proceedings of Co-HPC 2014. (33-40). (Proceedings of Co-HPC 2014: 1st International Workshop on Hardware-Software Co-Design for High Performance Computing - Held in Conjunction with SC 2014: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
DOI: 10.1109/Co-HPC.2014.13

Dardelet, L., Ritter, C., Prado, P., Heringer, E., Higgs, C., Sandalski, S., Jones, S., Denissenkov, P., Venn, K., Bertolli, M., Pignatari, M., Woodward, P.R., Herwig, F. (2014). The i-process and CEMP-r/s stars. Proceedings of Science. [145].
 

2013

Woodward, P.R., Jayaraj, J., Lin, P.H., Knox, M., Hammond, S.D., Greensky, J., Anderson, S.E. (2013). Scaling the multifluid PPM code on blue waters and intel MIC. In Proceedings - 2013 Extreme Scaling Workshop, XSW 2013. (64-72). (Proceedings - 2013 Extreme Scaling Workshop, XSW 2013.). IEEE Computer Society.
DOI: 10.1109/XSW.2013.13

2012

Lin, P.H., Jayaraj, J., Woodward, P.R., Yew, P.C. (2012). A study of performance portability using piecewise-parabolic method (PPM) gas dynamics applications. Procedia Computer Science. [1988-1991].
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2012.04.217

Ramaprabhu, P., Dimonte, G., Woodward, P., Fryer, C., Rockefeller, G., Muthuraman, K., Lin, P.H., Jayaraj, J. (2012). The late-time dynamics of the single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Physics of Fluids. 24 (7), [074107].
DOI: 10.1063/1.4733396

2011

Lin, P.H., Jayaraj, J., Woodward, P.R. (2011). A study of the performance of multifluid PPM gas dynamics on CPUs and GPUs. In Proceedings - 2011 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing, SAAHPC 2011. (42-51). (Proceedings - 2011 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing, SAAHPC 2011.).
DOI: 10.1109/SAAHPC.2011.27

Herwig, F., Pignatari, M., Woodward, P.R., Porter, D.H., Rockefeller, G., Fryer, C.L., Bennett, M., Hirschi, R. (2011). Convective-reactive proton-¹²C combustion in Sakurai's object (V4334 Sagittarii) and implications for the evolution and yields from the first generations of stars. Astrophysical Journal. 727 (2),
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/727/2/89

Dai, W.W., Woodward, P.R. (2011). Moment preserving schemes for Euler equations. Computers and Fluids. 46 (1), [186-196].
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.11.005

2010

Woodward, P.R., Jayaraj, J., Lin, P.H., Yew, P.C., Knox, M., Greensky, J., Nowatski, A., Stoffels, K. (2010). Boosting the performance of computational fluid dynamics codes for interactive supercomputing. Procedia Computer Science. 1 (1), [2055-2064].
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2010.04.230

2009

Woodward, P.R., Jayaraj, J., Lin, P.H., Dai, W. (2009). First experience of compressible gas dynamics simulation on the Los Alamos roadrunner machine. Concurrency Computation. 21 (17), [2160-2175].
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1494

2008

Woodward, P.R., Jayaraj, J., Lin, P.H., Yew, P.C. (2008). Moving scientific codes to multicore microprocessor CPUs. Computing in Science and Engineering. 10 (6), [4653201]. [16-25].
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2008.152

Woodward, P.R., Herwig, F., Porter, D.H., Fuchs, T., Nowatzki, A., Pignatari, M. (2008). Nuclear burning and mixing in the first stars: Entrainment at a convective boundary using the PPB advection scheme. In First Stars III. (300-308). (AIP Conference Proceedings. 990. (0094-243X)).
DOI: 10.1063/1.2905567

Woodward, P.R., Porter, D.H., Herwig, F., Pignatari, M., Jayaraj, J., Lin, P.H. (2008). The hydrodynamic environment for the s process in the He-shell flash of AGB stars. Proceedings of Science.
 

2007

Woodward, P.R., Porter, D.H. (2007). A model of small-scale turbulence for use in the PPM gas dynamics scheme. In Applied Parallel Computing. (1074-1083). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 4699 LNCS. (0302-9743)). Springer Verlag.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75755-9_125

Woodward, P.R., Porter, D.H., Greensky, J., Larson, A.J., Knox, M., Hanson, J., Ravindran, N., Fuchs, T. (2007). Interactive volume visualization of fluid flow simulation data. In Applied Parallel Computing. (659-664). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 4699 LNCS. (0302-9743)). Springer Verlag.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75755-9_80

Woodward, P.R. (2007). Numerics for iles: The ppm compressible gas dynamics scheme. In Implicit Large Eddy Simulation. (131-146). Cambridge University Press.
DOI: 10.1017/9780511618604.007

Porter, D.H., Woodward, P.R. (2007). Simulating compressible turbulent flow with ppm. In Implicit Large Eddy Simulation. (245-264). Cambridge University Press.
DOI: 10.1017/9780511618604.013

Porter, D.H., Woodward, P.R. (2007). Using ppm to model turbulent stellar convection. In Implicit Large Eddy Simulation. (439-469). Cambridge University Press.
DOI: 10.1017/9780511618604.021

2006

Woodward, P.R., Porter, D.H., Anderson, S., Fuchs, T., Herwig, F. (2006). Large-scale simulations of turbulent stellar convection flows and the outlook for petascale computation. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 46 (1), [052]. [370-384].
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/46/1/052

Woodward, P.R., Porter, D.H., Anderson, S.E., Edgar, B.K., Puthenveetil, A., Fuchs, T. (2006). Parallel computation of turbulent fluid flows with the piecewise-parabolic method. In Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2005. (93-100). Elsevier.
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452206-1/50010-0

2005

Woodward, P.R., Porter, D.H., Knox, M.R., Andringa, S.T., Larson, A.J., Stender, A. (2005). A system for interactive volume visualization on the powerwall. In VIS 05. (110). (Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference.).
DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2005.7

Porter, D.H., Woodward, P.R., Iyer, A. (2005). Initial experiences with grid-based volume visualization of fluid flow simulations on PC clusters. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. [13]. [115-125].
DOI: 10.1117/12.587382

2004

Wilhelmson, R., Alameda, J., Droegemeier, K., Folk, M., Fowler, R., Gannon, D., Graves, S., Haidvogel, D., Husbands, P., Isbell, C.L., Weber, D., Woodward, P., York, B.W., Anderson, S., Jewett, B., Moore, C., Nolan, D., Porter, D., Semeraro, D., Tanner, S. (2004). MEAD (A Modeling Environment for Atmospheric Discovery). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. [913-916].
 

2003

Dinge, D.C., Woodward, P.R. (2003). A parallel cell-by-cell AMR method for the PPM hydrodynamics code. International Journal of Modern Physics C. 14 (7), [857-880].
DOI: 10.1142/S0129183103005029

2002

Dickens, P., Gropp, W., Woodward, P. (2002). High performance wide area data transfers over high performance networks. In Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2002. (254). (Proceedings - International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2002.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2002.1016675

Porter, D., Pouquet, A., Woodward, P. (2002). Measures of intermittency in driven supersonic flows. Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics. 66 (2),
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.026301

Cohen, R.H., Dannevik, W.P., Dimits, A.M., Eliason, D.E., Mirin, A.A., Zhou, Y., Porter, D.H., Woodward, P.R. (2002). Three-dimensional simulation of a Richtmyer-Meshkov instability with a two-scale initial perturbation. Physics of Fluids. 14 (10), [3692-3709].
DOI: 10.1063/1.1504452

2000

Porter, D.H., Woodward, P.R., Jacobs, M.L. (2000). Convection in slab and spheroidal geometries. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. [1-20].
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06160.x

Sytine, I.V., Porter, D.H., Woodward, P.R., Hodson, S.W., Winkler, K.H. (2000). Convergence Tests for the Piecewise Parabolic Method and Navier-Stokes Solutions for Homogeneous Compressible Turbulence. Journal of Computational Physics. 158 (2), [225-238].
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6416

Wenlong Dai, W., Woodward, P.R. (2000). Numerical simulations for radiation hydrodynamics II. Transport limit. Journal of Computational Physics. 157 (1), [199-233].
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6371

Porter, D.H., Woodward, P.R. (2000). Three-dimensional simulations of turbulent compressible convection. Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series. 127 (1), [159-187].
DOI: 10.1086/313310