Thomas M Evans
Section Head and Distinguished R&D Staff, Advanced Computing Methods for Engineered Systems
Bio
Tom Evans specializes in the development, implementation, and application of computational transport as applied in the areas of Nuclear Engineering, computational fluid mechanics and gas flows, radiation detection, astrophysics, high energy density physics, and medical applications. His interests include stochastic and deterministic transport methods on massively parallel platforms, nonlinear and time-dependent transport methods, coupled physics including radiation-hydrodynamics and core-reactor physics, acceleration and preconditioning techniques, optimization and performance analysis, and large-scale scientific software design for parallel codes. He has published over 120 refereed journal and conference articles. He is the primary developer of the Denovo parallel deterministic (SN, SPN, MOC) and Shift Monte Carlo transport codes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which are part of the SCALE package.
He currently leads the Advanced Computing Methods for Engineered Systems section within the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division at ORNL.
He is an active member of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) and the American Nuclear Society (ANS), where he has served on the technical committee for several Math and Computation Division (MCD) meetings and was the MCD Chair (2013--2014), Vice-Chair (2012--2013), Executive Committee member (2010--2012), and Secretary (2000--2001).