
Bill Barth, Ph.D.
Director of Future Technologies
512-232-7069
bbarth@tacc.utexas.edu
Bill joined TACC in 2003 as a Research Associate in the High Performance Computing Group. Before coming to TACC he was involved in many Assistantships at The University of Texas both prior to and during working towards his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering.
Areas of Research
Finite Element Methods
Fluid Mechanics
High-Performance Parallel Computing
Current Projects
Enhancing HPC Research Using Clusters
Scalability & Performance Optimization Team- SPOT
UT Grid Project
Procedural Visualization of Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations
Selected Publications
W. Barth, G. F. Carey. "Extension of the CHT-01 Natural Convection Benchmark Problem to Non-Newtonian Fluids". Proceedings of ICHMT '04. Norway. 2004
G. F. Carey, W. Barth, J. Woods, B. Kirk, M. Anderson, S. Chow, and W. Bangerth. "Modeling error and constitutive relations in simulation of flow and transport". IJNMF, 2003. Submitted.
G. F. Carey, R. McLay, G. Bicken, and W. Barth. "Parallel Finite Element Solution of 3D Raleigh-Benard-Marangoni Flows". IJNMF, vol. 31, pp. 3752. 1999.
Speaking Engagements/Conference Participation
International Conference on Heat and Mass Transfer '04. Speaker. Panel Member. Norway. April 19-24, 2004.
US National Congress on Computational Mechanics. Speaker. Albuquerque, NM. July 2003.
International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Speaker. Sydney, Australia. June, 2003.
Education
B.S., Aerospace Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Memberships/Professional Affiliations
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)