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  • 2013 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For creating the Largescale AtomicMolecular Massively Parallel Simulator LAMMPS molecular dynamics package, opensource materials modeling software that has become widelyused by physicists and materials scientist worldwide

Overview

Steven J. Plimpton is affiliated with Sandia National Laboratories in the United States. Their research primarily spans several intersecting fields including materials science, engineering, and physics and astronomy. Within these fields, key subfields of study include materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, computational mechanics, mechanics of materials, and applied mathematics.

The work of this scientist covers a variety of topics relevant to both theoretical and applied sciences, including:

  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications

Among the recent papers associated with Steven J. Plimpton are:

  • "LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales" (2021), published in Computer Physics Communications
  • "Classical molecular dynamics" (2021), published in The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "Granular packings with sliding, rolling, and twisting friction" (2020), published in Physical Review E
  • "Parallel simulation via SPPARKS of on-lattice kinetic and Metropolis Monte Carlo models for materials processing" (2023), published in Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
  • "Turbulence at the edge of continuum" (2021), published in Physical Review Fluids

Frequently collaborating scholars include:

  • Aidan P. Thompson
  • Axel Kohlmeyer
  • Dan Bolintineanu
  • Stan Moore
  • Gary S. Grest

Steven J. Plimpton's publications appear regularly in specific venues, reflecting consistent engagement with established outlets in their fields. These venues include:

  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Computer Physics Communications
  • Physical Review E
  • Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

In recognition of contributions to materials modeling software, Steven J. Plimpton was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2013 for creating the LAMMPS molecular dynamics package, an open-source resource widely used by physicists and materials scientists. This work has had consistent citation impact in the relevant scientific literature.

Best Publications

  • Fast parallel algorithms for short-range molecular dynamics

    Steve Plimpton

  • LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales

    Aidan P. Thompson;H. Metin Aktulga;Richard Berger;Dan S. Bolintineanu

  • Dislocation nucleation and defect structure during surface indentation

    Cynthia L. Kelchner;S. J. Plimpton;J. C. Hamilton

  • Granular flow down an inclined plane: Bagnold scaling and rheology

    Leonardo E. Silbert;Deniz Ertaş;Gary S. Grest;Thomas C. Halsey

  • STRINGLIKE COOPERATIVE MOTION IN A SUPERCOOLED LIQUID

    Claudio Donati;Jack F. Douglas;Walter Kob;Steven J. Plimpton

  • DYNAMICAL HETEROGENEITIES IN A SUPERCOOLED LENNARD-JONES LIQUID

    Walter Kob;Claudio Donati;Steven J. Plimpton;Peter H. Poole

  • General formulation of pressure and stress tensor for arbitrary many-body interaction potentials under periodic boundary conditions.

    Aidan P. Thompson;Steven J. Plimpton;William Mattson

  • Implementing molecular dynamics on hybrid high performance computers - short range forces

    W. Michael Brown;Peng Wang;Steven J. Plimpton;Arnold N. Tharrington

  • Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics simulation using high-order finite elements

    C. R. Sovinec;A. H. Glasser;T. A. Gianakon;D. C. Barnes

  • Spatial correlations of mobility and immobility in a glass-forming Lennard-Jones liquid

    Claudio Donati;Sharon C. Glotzer;Peter H. Poole;Walter Kob

  • Equilibration of long chain polymer melts in computer simulations

    Rolf Auhl;Ralf Everaers;Gary S. Grest;Kurt Kremer

  • Li‐Ion Synaptic Transistor for Low Power Analog Computing

    Elliot J. Fuller;Farid El Gabaly;Francois Leonard;Sapan Agarwal

  • Implementing Molecular Dynamics on Hybrid High Performance Computers - Particle-Particle Particle-Mesh

    W. Michael Brown;Axel Kohlmeyer;Steven J. Plimpton;Arnold N. Tharrington

  • Massively parallel methods for engineering and science problems : High performance computing

    W. J. Camp;S. J. Plimpton;B. A. Hendrickson;R. W. Leland

  • Computational aspects of many-body potentials

    Steven J. Plimpton;Aidan Patrick Thompson

  • Implementing peridynamics within a molecular dynamics code

    Michael L. Parks;Richard B. Lehoucq;Steven J. Plimpton;Stewart A. Silling

  • LENGTH SCALE AND TIME SCALE EFFECTS ON THE PLASTIC FLOW OF FCC METALS

    M.F. Horstemeyer;M.I. Baskes;S.J. Plimpton

  • Particle-Mesh Ewald and rRESPA for Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

    Steve Plimpton;Roy Pollock;Mark Stevens

  • Computing the mobility of grain boundaries.

    Koenraad G. F. Janssens;Koenraad G. F. Janssens;David Olmsted;Elizabeth A. Holm;Stephen M. Foiles

  • Direct simulation Monte Carlo on petaflop supercomputers and beyond

    S. J. Plimpton;S. G. Moore;A. Borner;A. K. Stagg

  • MapReduce in MPI for Large-scale graph algorithms

    Steven J. Plimpton;Karen D. Devine

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary S. Grest
Gary S. Grest Sandia National Laboratories
Bruce Hendrickson
Bruce Hendrickson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jean-Loup Faulon
Jean-Loup Faulon University of Paris-Saclay
Richard B. Lehoucq
Richard B. Lehoucq Sandia National Laboratories
Stewart Andrew Silling
Stewart Andrew Silling Sandia National Laboratories
George Papadakis
George Papadakis Agricultural University of Athens
John G. Curro
John G. Curro New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Elizabeth A. Holm
Elizabeth A. Holm University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
A. Alec Talin
A. Alec Talin Sandia National Laboratories
Sharon C. Glotzer
Sharon C. Glotzer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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