Nick Whitman
Research And Development Engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Whitman is an R&D engineer and nuclear engineering PhD who blends advanced radiation transport methods with practical reactor and materials modeling across nearly a decade at Los Alamos and Oregon State University. He develops and validates transport solvers (including a deterministic MFEM-based SAAF SN code) and couples phonon transport into multi-physics simulations to predict thermal conductivity in ceramic breeder materials. His work spans Monte Carlo and deterministic methods, from MCNP and MCATK validation to novel phonon scattering treatments, supporting experiments at NCERC and NCSS/ACRR campaigns. Comfortable in both code development and experimental-comparison workflows, he has a track record of verification/validation and variance-reduction studies for reactor and shielding applications. Based in Los Alamos, he brings uncommon cross-domain depth—linking neutron transport, phonon physics, and open-source solver development—to applied national-security and advanced nuclear technology problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Nuclear Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Nuclear Engineering at Oregon State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Nuclear Engineering, Mathematics Minor, Bachelor of Science - BS, Nuclear Engineering, Mathematics Minor at Texas A&M University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
computational-science9
parallel-computing9
amr9
c-library9
hpc8
cpp8
scientific-computing8
scalable8
multiphysics7
finite-element-analysis7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
nickwhitman1993/osu-transport
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
nickwhitman1993/SAAF-MFEM
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Self-Adjoint Angular Flux in MFEM
Contributions:12 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
mfemadjointangularflux
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