Berni Alder
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Berni Alder's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Physics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Berni Julian Alder was a German-born American physicist specialized in statistical mechanics, and a pioneer of computational modelling of matter. Biography Alder was born in Duisburg, Prussia, in September 1925, to Jewish parents, a chemist and a homemaker. After the Nazis came to power, the family moved to Zurich, Switzerland. Fearing an invasion by Nazi Germany after the outbreak of World War II, the family applied for a visa to the United States, which was granted in 1941. They left by sealed train from neutral Switzerland to Spain, then to Portugal, where they took a ship to the US. Following a stint in the US Navy after US entry into the war, he obtained a BSc in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the same institution in 1947. He went to the California Institute of Technology to study under John Gamble Kirkwood for his PhD in 1948 and worked for the investigation of phase transitions in hard-sphere gas with Stan Frankel, where he got the idea to use the Monte Carlo method. After he finished at Caltech in 1952, he went to Berkeley and worked part-time at Berkeley to teach chemistry and part-time as a consultant under the suggestion of Edward Teller in the nuclear weapons program for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to help with the equations of state. In collaboration with Thomas Everett Wainwright, and Mary Ann Mansigh, he developed techniques for molecular dynamics simulation in the mid-1950s, including the liquid-solid phase transition for hard sphere and the velocity autocorrelations function decay in liquids.
Berni Alder's Published Works
Published Works
- Methods in Computational Physics (1964) (2193)
- Phase Transition for a Hard Sphere System (1957) (2125)
- Studies in Molecular Dynamics. I. General Method (1959) (1877)
- Decay of the Velocity Autocorrelation Function (1970) (898)
- Fixed-node quantum Monte Carlo for molecules (1982) (774)
- Studies in Molecular Dynamics. VIII. The Transport Coefficients for a Hard-Sphere Fluid (1970) (717)
- Studies in Molecular Dynamics. II. Behavior of a Small Number of Elastic Spheres (1960) (627)
- Phase Transition in Elastic Disks (1962) (499)
- Statistical Mechanical Theory of Transport Processes. VII. The Coefficient of Thermal Conductivity of Monatomic Liquids (1954) (461)
- Velocity Autocorrelations for Hard Spheres (1967) (424)
- Studies in Molecular Dynamics. V. High‐Density Equation of State and Entropy for Hard Disks and Spheres (1968) (394)
- Studies in Molecular Dynamics. X. Corrections to the Augmented van der Waals Theory for the Square Well Fluid (1972) (315)
- Adaptive Mesh and Algorithm Refinement Using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (1999) (273)
- Quantum Monte Carlo for molecules: Green’s function and nodal release (1984) (211)
- Cell size dependence of transport coefficients in stochastic particle algorithms (1998) (207)
- Stabilization of thermal lattice Boltzmann models (1995) (197)
- Analysis of the lattice Boltzmann treatment of hydrodynamics (1993) (178)
- Radial Distribution Functions and the Equation of State of a Fluid Composed of Rigid Spherical Molecules (1950) (166)
- Generalized transport coefficients for hard spheres (1983) (161)
- Radial Distribution Functions and the Equation of State of Fluids Composed of Molecules Interacting According to the Lennard‐Jones Potential (1952) (157)
- Critical Point of Metals from the van der Waals Model (1971) (139)
- Studies in Molecular Dynamics. III. A Mixture of Hard Spheres (1964) (129)
- Direct simulation Monte Carlo for thin‐film bearings (1994) (129)
- Pair Potential for Argon (1969) (128)
- Generation of the Chapman-Enskog Distribution (1998) (124)
- Studies in molecular dynamics. XIV. Mass and size dependence of the binary diffusion coefficient (1974) (121)
- Comparison of Kinetic Theory and Hydrodynamics for Poiseuille Flow (2002) (114)
- Static dielectric properties of Stockmayer fluids (1980) (112)
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Concentrated Aqueous Electrolytes (1955) (107)
- BEHAVIOR OF STRONGLY SHOCKED CARBON (1961) (107)
- Nanohydrodynamics simulations: an atomistic view of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. (2004) (105)
- Studies in Molecular Dynamics. IV. The Pressure, Collision Rate, and Their Number Dependence for Hard Disks (1967) (105)
- Neutron scattering function for hard spheres (1983) (102)
- Depolarization of Light in Atomic Fluids (1973) (96)
- Molecular Dynamics. VI. Free‐Path Distributions and Collision Rates for Hard‐Sphere and Square‐Well Molecules (1968) (96)
- Triplet Correlations in Hard Spheres (1964) (92)
- Van der Waals Theory of Transport in Dense Fluids (1966) (88)
- Cooperative Motion of Hard Disks Leading to Melting (1963) (87)
- Calculation of the Attractive He Pair Potential (1970) (82)
- Decay of Time Correlations in Two Dimensions (1971) (77)
- The importance of fluctuations in fluid mixing (2007) (75)
- Dielectric Polarization in Polar Substances (1953) (74)
- Shock Compression of Argon (1966) (70)
- Model for Metal Ammonia Solutions (1956) (68)
- Radial Distribution Function Calculated by the Monte‐Carlo Method for a Hard Sphere Fluid (1955) (66)
- Studies in Molecular Dynamics. VII. Hard‐Sphere Distribution Functions and an Augmented van der Waals Theory (1969) (66)
- A Hybrid Particle-Continuum Method for Hydrodynamics of Complex Fluids (2009) (65)
- A hydrodynamically correct thermal lattice Boltzmann model (1997) (63)
- Frequency-Dependent Dielectric Response in Polar Liquids (1981) (63)
- Atomistic methods in fluid simulation (2010) (63)
- Studies in molecular dynamics. XVII. Phase diagrams for ’’step’’ potentials in two and three dimensions (1979) (63)
- Studies in molecular dynamics. XIII. Singlet and pair distribution functions for hard‐disk and hard‐sphere solids (1974) (61)
- Hard sphere equation of state in the close-packed limit (1971) (61)
- Fundamental methods in hydrodynamics (1964) (60)
- Studies in molecular dynamics. XII. Band shape of the depolarized light scattered from atomic fluids (1973) (58)
- Erratum: “Cell size dependence of transport coefficients in stochastic particle algorithms” [Phys. Fluids 10, 1540 (1998)] (2000) (58)
- Melting-curve extrema from a repulsive ''step'' potential (1977) (58)
- Evidence for Internal Rotation in the Fine Structure of the Infrared Absorption of Oxygen in Silicon (1960) (58)
- Long-time correlation effects on displacement distributions (1978) (56)
- Solubility of Hydrogen and Deuterium in Nonpolar Solvents (1957) (55)
- Self‐Diffusion of Carbon Tetrachloride, Isobars and Isochores (1955) (55)
- Molecular dynamics computations for the hard sphere system (1958) (53)
- Studies in Molecular Dynamics. XI. Correlation Functions of a Hard‐Sphere Test Particle (1972) (52)
- Static dielectric properties of polarizable Stockmayer fluids (1981) (52)
- Simulation of Polar and Polarizable Fluids (1981) (50)
- Is the mantle soluble in the core (1966) (48)
- Shock compression of liquid hydrogen (1966) (45)
- Rotational ordering in solid deuterium and hydrogen: A path integral Monte Carlo study (1997) (42)
- Stochastic Event-Driven Molecular Dynamics (2008) (41)
- Depolarized scattering of atomic fluids with variable polarizability (1979) (41)
- Modification of Fick's Law (1979) (40)
- Methods in computational physics. Volume 14 - Radio astronomy (1975) (39)
- Shock Compression of Argon. II. Nonadditive Repulsive Potential (1967) (39)
- Tethered DNA dynamics in shear flow. (2009) (38)
- Studies in Molecular Dynamics. IX. Vacancies in Hard Sphere Crystals (1971) (38)
- Penetration depth of surface effects in molecular crystals (1959) (38)
- Melting Curve at High Pressure (1966) (36)
- Perturbation Calculations in Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. I. Hard Sphere Basis Potential (1959) (34)
- Dielectric properties of fluids composed of spheres of constant polarizability (1975) (34)
- Corresponding states at small interatomic distances (1965) (33)
- Corrections to the Kinetic Theory of Fluid Diffusion (1968) (33)
- Charged particles in polarizable fluids (1978) (31)
- Dependence of Lattice Gas Properties on Mesh Size (1964) (30)
- Crystal Transformation for Hard Spheres (1969) (30)
- Studies in molecular dynamics. XVIII. The square-well phase diagram (1980) (29)
- Effective Field of a Dipole in Polarizable Fluids (1977) (28)
- Destruction of Diatomic Bonds by Pressure (1960) (28)
- The calculation of the properties of metallic hydrogen using Monte Carlo (1981) (28)
- Studies in molecular dynamics. XV. High temperature description of the transport coefficients (1975) (27)
- Decay of correlations in the Lorentz gas (1983) (25)
- Interpolation methods and the accuracy of lattice-Boltzmann mesh refinement (2014) (25)
- Stochastic hard-sphere dynamics for hydrodynamics of nonideal fluids. (2008) (25)
- Dielectric Polarization and Structure of Polar Liquids under Pressure (1953) (25)
- Overcoming the fermion sign problem in homogeneous systems (2014) (24)
- Cell Theories for Hard Particles (1966) (24)
- Structural relaxation in dense hard-sphere fluids (1987) (24)
- The consistent Boltzmann algorithm for the van der Waals equation of state (1997) (24)
- The Diffusion of Iodine in Carbon Tetrachloride under Pressure (1953) (23)
- Relation between the local field at large distances from a charge or dipole and the dielectric constant. (1980) (23)
- Persistence of vacancy motion in hard sphere crystals (1971) (22)
- Metallic Transition in Ionic and Molecular Crystals (1956) (22)
- Virial Expansion for Mixtures of Rigid Spheres (1956) (22)
- The surface properties of a van der Waals fluid (2000) (22)
- The Effects of Hydrostatic Pressure and Centrifugal Fields upon Critical Liquid–Liquid Interfaces (1954) (22)
- Corrections to the Van der Waals model for mixtures and for the diffusion coefficient (1974) (22)
- Variational Monte Carlo Study of an Interacting Electron-Phonon Model (1997) (21)
- Augmented van der Waals Theory for Mixtures (1970) (21)
- Initial growth of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability via molecular dynamics (2008) (20)
- Limited solubility of iron in the Sun's interior (1978) (20)
- Free‐Path Distribution for Hard Spheres (1965) (20)
- Statistical Mechanical Derivation of Onsager's Equation for Dielectric Polarization (1954) (20)
- Predictions of the solid helium phase diagram (1973) (19)
- Instability Modes Prior to Melting (1968) (19)
- Computer modeling of rare solvent exchange (1983) (18)
- Mixtures of Rigid Spherical Molecules (1955) (17)
- A semiclassical study of the thermal conductivity of low temperature liquids. (2011) (16)
- Highly discretized dynamics (1997) (16)
- Hard-sphere solids with one fluid component (1981) (16)
- Phase separation for a dense fluid mixture of nuclei (1977) (16)
- Scaling of atomistic fluid dynamics simulations. (2008) (16)
- Corrections to the Kinetic Theory of Fluid Diffusion. II. Binary Mixtures (1970) (15)
- CELL POTENTIALS AND GAS SOLUBILITY THEORY1 (1962) (15)
- A thermodynamically consistent non-ideal stochastic hard-sphere fluid (2009) (15)
- Validity of Macroscopic Concepts for Fluids on a Microscopic Scale (1981) (15)
- Intermolecular Potentials from Dielectric Polarization in Polar Gases (1953) (14)
- Generalized bond order parameters to characterize transient crystals. (2012) (14)
- Ground-state properties of metallic lithium (1989) (14)
- Instability in pipe flow (2008) (14)
- Exhaust and in Situ Measurements of Nitric Oxide in Laminar Partially Premixed C2H6-Air Flames: Ef (1995) (14)
- Activation Energy: Not Involved in Transport Processes in Liquids (1973) (14)
- Pair Potential That Stabilizes Cubic Argon (1965) (14)
- PVT Relations of Liquid Carbon Tetrachloride and n‐Perfluoroheptane and a Test of the Clausius‐Mosotti Equation (1954) (14)
- Evaluation of time correlation functions from a generalized Enskog equation (1982) (13)
- A particle method with adjustable transport properties—the generalized consistent Boltzmann algorithm (1997) (13)
- Phase separation in mixtures of ionized iron in a hydrogen plasma. (1980) (13)
- Optimized cluster theory correction to the van der Waals model of mixtures (1974) (13)
- Studies in molecular dynamics. XVI. Fluctuation driven resonance (1977) (13)
- Special purpose computers (1988) (12)
- Third Virial Coefficient for Intermolecular Potentials with Hard Sphere Cores (1957) (12)
- Prospects for release-node quantum Monte Carlo. (2011) (12)
- THE LOW DENSITY PHASES OF THE ELECTRON GAS (1980) (11)
- Pressure-induced metallic transitions in insulators (1956) (11)
- Shock Compression of Argon. III. The Thomas—Fermi—Dirac Theory (1967) (11)
- Atomistic simulation of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability (2006) (11)
- Effect of multiple scattering on the intensity of depolarized light (1981) (11)
- Short Communication Effects of Partial Premixing on NOx Emission Indices of Soot-Containing Flames (2000) (11)
- Triplet Potential for Argon (1971) (10)
- The chemical potential for dilute hard-sphere mixtures (1978) (10)
- Atomic and molecular scattering (1971) (10)
- The melting line and intermolecular potential of argon from shock compression (1963) (10)
- Stochastic calculation of interaction energies (1982) (10)
- A molecular dynamics study of the intensity and band shape of depolarized light scattered from rare-gas crystals (1976) (10)
- Suggestion of a eutectic region between the liquid and solid core of the Earth (1977) (9)
- Computer simulation of phase transitions in classical and quantum systems (2009) (9)
- Methods in Computational Physics. Volume 3: Fundamental Methods in Hydrodynamics (1966) (9)
- Decay of angular correlations in hard-sphere fluids (1989) (9)
- Lattice Boltzmann simulation of high Reynolds number fluid flow in two dimensions (1993) (9)
- Superfluid Region for a Bose-Coulomb Gas with Hard Cores (1989) (8)
- Quantum mechanical simulation of liquids (1985) (8)
- Dielectric constant of atomic fluids with variable polarizability. (1980) (8)
- Quantum-statistical models for multicomponent plasmas. II (1976) (8)
- METHODS IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS: ADVANCES IN RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS. VOLUME 9. PLASMA PHYSICS. (1970) (8)
- Dielectric Polarization and Self‐Ionization in Carboxylic Acids (1953) (8)
- Pressure Dependence of the electric Constant of Water and the Volume Contraction of Water and n-Butanol upon Addition of Electrolyte (1953) (8)
- Recent Results in the Exact Treatment of Fermions at Zero and Finite Temperature (2012) (8)
- Persistence of vacancy motion (1968) (7)
- Effect of centrifuging on fluctuations in the critical liquid--liquid region (1978) (7)
- Force and interaction dipole autocorrelation functions for rare gases (1979) (7)
- Solutions of Nonelectrolytes (1961) (7)
- Study of Transient Nuclei near Freezing (2010) (6)
- Absence of first order electronic transitions in liquid metals (1974) (6)
- Applications in hydrodynamics (1965) (5)
- Enhancement of Diffusion by Vortex-Like Motion of Classical Hard Particles (1969) (5)
- Computer results on transport properties (1978) (5)
- FREE VOLUME THEORY FOR SQUARE-WELL POTENTIALS (1959) (5)
- Shear Viscosity and Structural Relaxation in Dense Liquids*** (1988) (4)
- Advances in Quantum Monte Carlo (2011) (4)
- Complex flows by nanohydrodynamics (2004) (4)
- Simulation by Molecular Dynamics (2003) (4)
- An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Strategy with Conservative Space-Time Coupling for the Lattice-Boltzmann Method (2013) (4)
- Concluding Remarks: The Long-Time Tails Story (1992) (4)
- Overcoming Isolation (2017) (4)
- Thermodynamic functions for self-ionization in carboxylic acids (1954) (4)
- The thermal conductivity of a hard sphere solid (1971) (4)
- Slow dynamics by molecular dynamics (2002) (3)
- Comments on non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (1983) (3)
- Prediction of transport properties of dense gases and liquids (1966) (3)
- SIMULATION OF FLUID INSTABILITIES USING ATOMISTIC METHODS (2008) (3)
- An Event-Driven Hybrid Molecular Dynamics and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Algorithm (2007) (3)
- Methods in Computational Physics: Advances in Research and Applications, Vol 5: Nuclear Particle Kinematics (1967) (2)
- Simulation of the consistent Boltzmann equation for hard spheres and its extension to higher densities (1995) (2)
- Nuclear particle kinematics (1966) (2)
- Effect of Overall Equivalence Ratio on Minimum Nitric Oxide Emission Index in Laminar and Turbulent Partially Premixed Flames (1998) (2)
- In Memoriam: Thomas E. Wainwright September 22, 1927 – November 27, 2007 (2009) (2)
- Remarks on “the field far from a charge and a dipole” (1981) (2)
- Note on the Critical Temperature of Solids (1952) (2)
- Methods in Computational Physics: Advances in Research and Applications, Vol. 3, Fundamental Methods in Hydrodynamics (1965) (2)
- Numerical experiments in statistical mechanics (1972) (2)
- Vortex Motion in Fluids (1971) (1)
- Molasses Tail in Dense Hard Core Fluids (2010) (1)
- FEW PARTICLE EXPERIMENTS IN STATISTICAL MECHANICS (1963) (1)
- Methods in computational physics: advances in research and applications. Vol._14: Radio astronomy. (1975) (1)
- Challenges in computational statistical mechanics (1989) (1)
- SHOCKS UP TO INFINITE PRESSURES (1963) (1)
- Algorithms for Supercomputers (1986) (1)
- Pressure dependence of the superfluid helium-4 transition in two dimensions (1990) (1)
- Some programming aspects of quantum Monte Carlo calculations (1981) (1)
- Computations in statistical mechanics (1975) (1)
- Correction to the Van Der Waals model (1972) (1)
- Superfluidity of a Two-Dimensional Bose-Coulomb Gas (1988) (0)
- Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2018 (2018) (0)
- Metallic Lithium by Quantum Monte Carlo (1987) (0)
- PIMC Validation of Effective Quantum Potentials for MD Simulations of Dense Plasmas (2010) (0)
- HIGH-PRESSURE SHOCK WAVE EXPERIMENTS IN ARGON AND XENON (1965) (0)
- Simulation of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability using atomistic methods (2006) (0)
- Reflections on the Boltzmann equation (2002) (0)
- Vibrational properties of solids (1976) (0)
- APPEARANCE OF INSTABILITY MODES PRIOR TO MELTING (1968) (0)
- Molecular Dynamics Compared to Hydrodynamics for Rayleigh‐Taylor Instability (2004) (0)
- In Memoriam: Thomas E. Wainwright(The 50th Anniversary of the Alder Transition -Recent Progress on Computational Statistical Physics-) (2009) (0)
- Effect of Rough Moving Boundaries on Plane Poiseuille Flow (2010) (0)
- Release-Node quantum Monte Carlo studies for molecules (2011) (0)
- The Onset of Turbulence in Wall-bounded Flows with Surface Roughness and Fluctuations (2017) (0)
- Stochastic Hard-Sphere Dynamics Algorithm for Hydrodynamics of Polymers in Flow (2008) (0)
- Review of Computer modeling of matter by Peter Lykos. American Chemical Society. (1979) (0)
- Methods in Computational Physics. Advances in Research and Applications. Vol. 4, Applications in Hydrodynamics (1966) (0)
- Energy bands of solids (1968) (0)
- Study of Transient Nuclei near Freezing(Frontiers in Nonequilibrium Physics-Fundamental Theory, Glassy & Granular Materials, and Computational Physics-) (2010) (0)
- QUANTUM MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF HYDROGEN PLASMAS (1990) (0)
- Dynamics simulation of simple liquids (1985) (0)
- INVITED ARTICLE Molasses tail in two dimensions (2009) (0)
- Buchbesprechungen über: Methods in Computational Physics. (Ref. G. Traving) (1968) (0)
- Solubility considerations at the center of jupiter (1979) (0)
- Molecular dynamic results on transport properties (1978) (0)
- Progress in exact treatment of fermions at finite temperature (2012) (0)
- Simulation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov and Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Using Atomistic Methods (2007) (0)
- Liquid state physics. (1977) (0)
- Computer Simulation at High Pressure (1978) (0)
- Methods in Computational Physics, Vol. 8: Energy Bands of Solids (1969) (0)
- Reaction rate calculations via transmission coefficients (1985) (0)
- Hydrodynamic fluctuations in a particle‐continuum hybrid for complex fluids (2011) (0)
- Criterion for the superfluid/superconducting phase transition in two dimensions (1989) (0)
- The Radial Distribution Function and the Thermodynamic Properties of Monatomic Liquids. A Statistical Mechanical Theory of the Coefficient of Thermal Conductivity of Monatomic Liquids (1952) (0)
- METHODS IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS. ADVANCES IN RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS. VOLUME 10. ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCATTERING. (1971) (0)
- New algorithms in chemistry (1988) (0)
- Computer experiments on the onset of turbulence (2012) (0)
- Multiscale Methods for Hydrodynamics of Complex Fluids (2009) (0)
- Effect of Axially-Periodic Pipe Radius on the Linear Stability of Circular Poiseuille Flow (2005) (0)
- Methods in computational physics. Advances in research and applications. Volume 16. Controlled fusion (1976) (0)
- Polymer-vortex interactions in confined flows (2006) (0)
- Advances in Quantum Monte (2012) (0)
- Methods in Computational Physics: Astrophysics (1967) (0)
- Quantum Monte Carlo study of the metal-insulator transition for a hydrogen lattice (1990) (0)
- From the nano to the macro: do microfluidic atomistic simulations tell us anything about macroscopic fluid dynamics? (2009) (0)
- Transient quantum Monte Carlo investigations of few-electron systems (2010) (0)
- MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS (1985) (0)
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