Obama "Clean and Articulate"/Beiden
Democrat Party Plan so far: "Appoint centrist administrators in order to build
bipartisan policy" (looks very smart to us -- hope it works!)
Global Warming Evidence, 2008
Republican Party "Plan":
Push energy independence through offshore drilling and
nuclear power, copying the French(!) policy of 1973 while watching
Obama drive the economy to further depths.
[Governor Palin has four more years to impress the population!]
Books:
"Molecular Dynamics" (Volume 258 in the Springer-Verlag series, Lecture
Notes in Physics, published in 1986, and evidently out of print in 2007.
I found one copy for sale at $121.17 on Amazon.com in May 2007 and
decided to scan the book to make it available for interested readers.)
"Computational Statistical Mechanics"
(A comprehensive treatment of
equilibrium and nonequilibrium methods and applications, published by
Elsevier in 1991 as Volume 11 of the Studies in Modern Thermodynamics
Series). The .pdf file here was provided through the courtesy of the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
"Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos" (1999,2001)
(An up-to-date
description reconciling the irreversible nature of real life with the
time-reversible descriptions of nonequilibrium molecular dynamics,
published by World Scientific as Volume 13 of the Advanced Series in
Nonlinear Dynamics, 1999, reprinted with minor corrections in 2001)
"Smooth Particle
Applied Mechanics---The State of the Art" (Thorough
description of the use of mesoscopic/macroscopic particles to simulate
the properties of bulk matter, published
by World Scientific as Volume 25 of the Advanced Series in Nonlinear
Dynamics, 2006). There is a free 107 megabyte
draft copy available.
Koichiro Shida [currently at the Musashi Institute of Technology in
Tokyo] kindly translated all four of these books into
Japanese, culminating with publication of the
SPAM book just in time for Christmas of 2008.
Reviews:
"Links Between Microscopic and Macroscopic Fluid Mechanics" (with Carol
Hoover---this paper was rejected by the American Journal of Physics) [Molecular
Physics 101, 1559 (2003)]
"Mécanique de Nonéquilibre à la Californienne" [Physica
A 240, 1 (1997)]
"Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics; the first 25 years" [Physica A 194,
450 (1993)]
Conference Proceedings
Contributions and Older Papers with Some Historical or Word-processing
Interest:
"Adiabatic Hamiltonian Deformation, Linear Response Theory, and
Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics" (presented at Sitges, Spain at a
1980 conference in memory of Mel Green -- typed on an IBM Selectric! A
Kewpie Doll drawing accompanying the manuscript was removed by the Editors.)
[Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Physics 132]
"Atomistic Computer Simulations" (presented at Boulder, Colorado at
Howard Hanley's seminal 1982 conference on Nonlinear Fluid Phenomena --
Looks a bit like teX.)
[Physica 118A, 111 (1983)]
"Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics at Livermore and Los Alamos"
(presented at Alghero, Sardinia at a
1991 conference celebrating Berni Alder's 65th birthday -- Microscoft Word.
The Kewpie Doll Poster from the 1980 Edmonton IUPAP meeting appears here.)
[NATO Advanced Science Institutes in Physics, 292B]
"Computer Simulation of Nonequilibrium Processes"
(presented at Monterey, California at the
[1987 Shockwaves in Condensed Matter conference] -- B. Moran, B. L. Holian,
H. A. Posch, and S. Bestiale
are cited as coauthors -- prepared with an IBM Selectric). Two rejection
letters from 21 April 1987 are also included. The
[first]
is from George Bas-Bas at Physical Review Letters
(regarding "Second-Law Irreversibility of Reversible Mechanical Systems",
which was submitted again on 4 May 1987 and published in
[Physical Review
Letters 59, 10-13 (1987)] as "Resolution of Loschmidt's Paradox: the Origin
of Irreversible Behavior in Reversible Atomistic Dynamics". The latter
work is exactly the same as the rejected paper but with the authors'
names permuted and the title changed. The
[second rejection letter](in his
own hand) is from Joel Lebowitz at the Journal of Statistical Physics,
regarding the paper "Reversible Mechanics and Time's Arrow", written for a
volume he collated honoring Ilya Prigogine. This latter paper was next
sent to Physical
Review A, also on 4 May 1987, and was published in the 1 January 1988 issue
of
[Physical Review A 37, 252-257]. These papers illustrate some of the
difficulties in publishing novel work.
Preprints:
Memorial Lecture:
2007 Lectures:
Some Publications, from
2000-2008:
"Nonlinear Stresses and Temperatures in Transient Adiabatic and Shear
Flows via Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics -- Three Definitions of
Temperature." [with Carol Hoover, a followup of Review E 78, 046701 (2008)] (Preprint) exploring
the differences between adiabatic and isoenergetic shear flows which also
demonstrates that configurational temperature contains spurious
rotational contributions.
An internet search on poor referee jobs, inspired by the predecessor paper
led me to
"Juan Miguel Campanario's interesting research" on the review process.
"50 Years of Computer Simulation --- a Personal View"
[Prepared for the Japanese journal "Ensemble"] (English Version)
to appear in 2009 in Japanese translation by Masaharu Isobe.
"Nosé-Hoover Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics." [41
Vugraphs (19 megabytes!)
for the Symposium on Progress and Future Prospects in Molecular Dynamics
Simulation in Memory of Professor Shuichi Nosé (Yokohama, 6-8 June 2006)]
(8 June 2006)
"Hamiltonian Thermostats for Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations." [52
Vugraphs (29 megabytes!)
for Mexico, Wien, Gdansk, and Melbourne.]
(January 2007)
"SPAM (Smooth Particle Applied Mechanics)." [39
Vugraphs (15 megabytes)
for Mexico City Workshop organized by Paco Uribe.]
(Workshop 2007)
"Computational Physics with Particles." [26
Vugraphs (19 megabytes)
for September Meeting on the Hel Peninsula, Poland, and similar to a talk
delivered in Melbourne at the November MM2007 meeting.]
(Gdansk Talk 2007)
"Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics--The Facts and Fundamentals." [37
Vugraphs (26 megabytes)
for a November seminar at Swinburne University (Melbourne, hosted by
Billy Todd).]
(Swinburne Talk 2007)
"Simulation of Two- and Three-Dimensional Dense-Fluid Shear Viscosities via
Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics. Comparison of Time-and-Space-Averaged
Stresses from Homogeneous Doll's and Sllod Shear Algorithms with those from
Boundary-Driven Shear." [Physical Review E 78, 046701 (2008).]
(Shear Flow Comparison)
"Nonequilibrium Temperature and Thermometry in Heat-Conducting Phi-4 Models"
[Physical Review E 77, 041104 (2008).]
(Kinetic and Configurational
Thermostats far from Equilibrium 2008)
"Computational Physics with Particles" [American Journal of Physics 76,
481-492 (2008).]
(Gdansk ms 2007)
"Computational Physics with Particles---Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics
and Smooth Particle Applied Mechanics" [this shortened version of our review
appears in Computational Methods in Science and Technology 13, 83-93 (2007).]
(Gdansk Proceedings
2007)
"50 Joint Explorations, 1985-2007." [with Carol Hoover; this informal review
of our joint work with Harald Posch is archived with the Schroedinger Institute
in Vienna as Preprint 1898.]
(Wien 2007)
"Nosé-Hoover Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics." [written
for the Symposium on Progress and Future Prospects in Molecular Dynamics
Simulation in Memory of Professor Shuichi Nosé (Yokohama, 6-8 June
2006); Molecular Simulation 33, 13-19 (2007).]
(Spring 2006)
"Phase-Space Growth Rates, Local Lyapunov Spectra, and Symmetry Breaking
for Time-Reversible Dissipative Oscillators." [with Carol Hoover and Florian
Grond; to appear in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical
Simulation 13, 1180-1193 (2008)].
(Fall 2006)
"Hamiltonian Dynamics of Thermostated Systems: Two-Temperature
Heat-Conducting phi-4 Chains." [with Carol Hoover; honoring the 65th Birthday
of Harald Posch (Wien); Journal of Chemical Physics 126, 164113 (2007);
the Figures which illustrate this preprint can
also be found as slides 41, 43, 44, and 46 in the first
"January 2007" Lecture below].
(Spring 2007)
"Nosé Shuichi, 17 June 1951 --- 17 August 2005, In Memorium."
[ Butsuri 60, 819 (2005)]
(Shuichi)
"Smooth-Particle Phase Stability with Density and Density-Gradient
Potentials." (with C. G. Hoover) [ Physical Review E 73, 016702
(2005)]
(Summer 2005)
"Searching for Auxetics with DYNA3D and ParaDyn." (with C. G. Hoover)
[Physica Status Solidi (b) 242, 585-594 (2005)]
(October
2004)
"Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics: Reversible Irreversibility from Symmetry
Breaking, Thermostats, Entropy Production, and Fractals." [Proceedings of the
Segunda Reunión Mexicana sobre Física Matemática y
Física Experimental, AIP Conference Proceedings 757, 16-28 (2005)]
(September
2004)
"The Second Law of Thermodynamics and MultiFractal Distribution Functions:
Bin Counting, Pair Correlations, and the [definite failure of the]
Kaplan-Yorke Conjecture" (with C. G.Hoover, H. A. Posch, and J. A. Codelli;
after four inconclusive months at Physica D this paper was rescued by
Stefano Ruffo) [Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, edited by
Chen, Li, Luo, and Ruffo]. It became available online 7 April 2005 and is scheduled
to appear in volume 12, pages 214-231 in this Journal (which offers a "rapid
exchange of ideas and techniques") sometime in 2007 (about
two and a half years after its writing).
(August
2004)
"Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics" (with C. G. Hoover)[Condensed Matter Physics 8,
247-260(2005)], from the Festschrift celebrating Doug
Henderson's 70th-Birthday Symposium at Brigham Young University]
(July
2004)
"Smooth Particle Applied Mechanics: Conservation of Angular Momentum with
Tensile Stability and Velocity Averaging" (with Carol Hoover and Elizabeth
Merritt) [Physical Review E 69, 016702 (2004)]
"Smooth-Particle Boundary Conditions" (with Oyeon Kum) [Physical Review
E, 68, 017701 (2003)]
"Large-System Phase-Space Dimensionality Loss in Stationary Heat Flows"
(with Harald Posch) [Physica D 187, 281 (2004)]
"Remarks on NonHamiltonian Statistical Mechanics: Lyapunov Exponents and
Phase-Space Dimensionality Loss" (with Harald Posch, Ken Aoki, and Dimitri
Kusnezov) [Europhysics
Letters 60, 337 (2002)]
"Time-Reversible Deterministic Thermostats" (with Ken Aoki, Carol Hoover,
and Stephanie de Groot) [Physica D 187, 253 (2004)] (Dresden
2004)
"Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, and Chaos" [World Scientific,
Singapore (1999 and 2001)]
"Smooth-Particle Simulations Boundary Conditions" (with Carol Hoover) [Computing
in Science and Engineering 3(2), 78 (2001)]
"Liouville's Theorems, Gibbs' Entropy, and Multifractal Distributions for
Nonequilibrium Steady States" [Journal
of Chemical Physics 109, 4164 (1998)]
"Dynamical Instabilities, Manifolds, and Local Lyapunov Spectra Far From
Equilibrium" (with Carol Hoover and Harald Posch) [Computational Methods
in Science and Technology (Poznan, Poland) 7, 55
(2001)]
"Finite-Precision Stationary States at and away from Equilibrium" (with
Christoph Dellago) [Physical
Review E 62, 6275 (2000)]
Oldies, but Goodies, arranged by Topic
Biographical Information for William Graham Hoover
I was born in Boston
on 18 April (remember that famous ride of Paul Revere?) 1936 and lived
later, as a boy, in Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC.
A chemistry teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington set me
on the path that took me to Oberlin College (BA in Chemistry, 1958) and
the University of Michigan (MSChem and PhD in Chemical Physics, 1961).
My thesis director at Michigan, Andrew De Rocco, sent me to Jacques Poirier
(Duke University) for a postdoctoral year, after which Berni Alder attracted
me to Livermore, California. Los Alamos was only number two. I spent the
remainder of my research career as a physicist at the University of California's
Livermore Laboratory. I joined the Department of Applied Science
(started by Edward Teller through the Davis Campus of the University and
promptly dismantled, at least at Livermore's Hertz Hall, after his death) in
1970 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1993. The gradual bureaucratization
of the laboratory and the decline of the University of California toward
a rock-bottom level of political correctness (shared at least, and perhaps
exceeded, by Oberlin College and the University of Michigan) made an active
retired research career more attractive than continuing "service" to aging
institutions. We completed our move to Ruby Valley, Nevada with Carol's
retirement (June, 2005).We then completed our work on
a book for World Scientific ("Smooth Particle Applied Mechanics---SPAM:
The State of the Art") as well as two summer-2006 research projects with
students at
Great Basin College's HiTech Center. Now we are
spending more time with the horses ( Princess, Majic, White Boy [aka Silver],
and the mysterious Mr X ).
Biographical Information for Carol Griswold Hoover ["ux"]
I met Bill and that
was it ... .
Carol G. Hoover's email address (for .jpg or .pdf or .ps files):
hoover1carol@yahoo.com
William G. Hoover's email address: hooverwilliam@yahoo.com
William G. Hoover's snail addresses in Nevada: HC 60, Box 598 or Box 601, Ruby
Valley, Nevada 89833
[Our various California mailing addresses and phone numbers are obsolete and should not be used.]