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On April 22, 1959, Rear Admiral George J. King, superintendent of the Maine Maritime Academy, announced that following the completion of the 1960 training cruise, cadets would begin the study of nuclear engineering. Courses at that time included radiation physics, reactor control and instrumentation, reactor theory and engineering, thermodynamics, shielding, core design, reactor maintenance, and nuclear aspects.
L. G. Margolin, K. L. van Buren
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 1 | October 2024 | Pages S168-S185
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2283660
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Here we reproduce the complete text of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Report LA-671 authored by Robert Richtmyer in 1948. This report, though unpublished, is arguably one of the most important and influential monographs in computational fluid dynamics. It will be recognized that this report is the source of much of the material in the highly cited 1950 paper of von Neumann and Richtmyer. However, ideas in this report go beyond that later paper. In particular, we find here a motivation and a derivation of the quadratic form of artificial viscosity, an enduring concept in the simulation of flows with shocks, with turbulence models, and more recently, with theory in fluid dynamics. We reproduce the report in its entirety and then append a brief commentary to familiarize the reader with the environment in which Richtmyer worked, the motivation for his work, and some ensuing research. Artificial viscosity remains essential in Lagrangian simulations of fusion technologies such as inertial confinement fusion.