I'm a computational physicist working at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester, NY. I did my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering specializing in hydrodynamic instabilities that occur in inertial confinement fusion. More specifically, my research included high-fidelity simulations of micron-scale internal defects in cryogenic targets and described how these defects evolve and create seeds for hydrodynamic instability growth. In my day-to-day job I maintain and develop high performance scientific code that simulate laser direct-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions in 1D, 2D, and 3D.
ORCiD | Google Scholar Profile
Modern code development practices
Julia, modern Fortran, C/C++
High performance CFD methods
MPIHaloArrays.jl – A new Array type in Julia that manages the halo-exchange process (via MPI) that commonly occurs in large-scale domain-decomposed simulation codes
Cato – A flexible modern Fortran (2018+) code that solves the Euler fluid equations within the finite volume method. Parallelization is accomplished using Coarrays and OpenMP.
coarray_field – A simple high-level field object in Fortran 2018 that manages domain decomposition via coarrays
PhD Dissertation: 2022, University of Rochester, "Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Inertial Confinement Fusion: Physics, Numerical Methods, and Implementation" - (pdf)
Master's Thesis: 2015, University of Dayton, "Fluid-Structure Interaction of a Variable Camber Compliant Wing" (pdf)
2022 - "Instability Seeding Mechanisms Due to Internal Defects in Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets", S. C. Miller and V. N. Goncharov, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0091949
2019 - "Fuel-shell interface instability growth effects on the performance of room temperature direct-drive implosions", S. C. Miller, J. P. Knauer, C. J. Forrest, V. Yu. Glebov, P. B. Radha, V. N. Goncharov, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5104338
2015 - "Fluid-Structure Interaction of a Variable Camber Compliant Wing", S. C. Miller, M. P. Rumpfkeil and J. J. Joo, 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2015-1235