Scott Runnels

  • Senior Research Associate

Education

  • PhD, Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas Austin, 1991
  • MS, Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas Austin, 1989
  • BS, Engineering Science, Trinity University, 1986

Honors and Distinctions

  • US Department of Energy Award of Excellence for Leadership
  • Multiple Corporate Awards of Excellence
  • Founder, Computational Physics Student Summer Workshop, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Four Patents, Patent of the Week, Austin Business Journal
  • Small business owner for 24 years


Interests

  • Application of computational multi-physics to industrial and government applications
  • High performance scientific computing
  • Railroad tank car safety and fire effects on tank cars
  • High-altitude research balloon design and performance
  • Chemical-mechanical polishing of semiconductor wafers
  • Shock physics and high explosives
  • Developing next-generation computational methods 
  • Developing next-generation computational scientists

Courses taught

  • High Performance Scientific Computing
  • Production Quality Computational Multi-Physics Software Development
  • Linear Algebra with Computer Science Applications