Technical Publications
of G. David Kerlick

See also AMS MathSciNet. Last revised 10 September, 2006.

Categories

Relativity and Gravitation
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computational Electromagnetics
Grids and Geometry
Scientific and Engineering Visualization
High Performance Computing
Miscellaneous

    Relativity and Gravitation

  1. The Effect of Intrinsic Spin on Neutron Stars in the Einstein-Cartan Theory of Gravity, Astrophys. J., 185 (1973) pp.631-633.

  2. General Relativity with Spin and Torsion and its Deviation from Einstein's Theory -- with F.W. Hehl and P. v.d. Heyde. Phys. Rev. D(3) Vol. 10 (1974) pp. 1066--1069. in MathSciNet

  3. Spin and Torsion in General Relativity: Foundations, and Implications for Astrophysics and Cosmology. Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, January 1975. Available from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

  4. Cosmology and Particle Pair Creation in the Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble Theory of Gravity. Phys. Rev. D12 (1975) pp. 3004-3006.

  5. "Bouncing" of Simple Cosmological Models with Torsion. Annals of Physics (N.Y.) 99, No. 1, July 1976, pp.127-141, and 104, No. 3, April 1977, pp. 503-504.

  6. Cartan, Élie, On a Generalization of the notion of Riemann curvature and spaces with torsion.(English) Translated from the French by G.D. Kerlick. Cosmology and Gravitation (Bologna, 1979), 489--491, NATO Adv. Study Inst.Ser. B: Physics58 Plenum, New York-London, 1980. From an Appendix in Ph.D. Thesis.

  7. Spin and Torsion in General Relativity: Foundations and Prospects, with F.W. Hehl, P. v.d.Heyde, and J.M. Nester. Rev. Mod. Phys. 48, No. 3, July 1976, pp. 393--416. in MathSciNet

  8. On Hypermomentum in General Relativity: I. The Notion of Hypermomentum. with F. W. Hehl and P. v.d. Heyde. Z. Naturforschung 31a, 1976, pp. 111-114.

  9. On Hypermomentum in General Relativity: II. The Geometry of Spacetime, with F. W. Hehl and P. v.d. Heyde. Z. Naturforschung 31a, 1976, pp. 524-527.

  10. On Hypermomentum in General Relativity: III. Hypermomentum Coupled to Geometry. with F. W. Hehl and P. v.d. Heyde. Z. Naturforschung 31a, 1976, pp. 823-827.

  11. On a New Metric-Affine Theory of Gravitation. with F. W. Hehl and P. v.d. Heyde. Physics Letters B Vol. 63, No. 4., 16 Aug. 1976, pp. 446--448. in MathSciNet

  12. Metric-Affine Variational Principles in General Relativity: I. Riemannian Spacetime. with F.W. Hehl. General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 9, No. 8, 1978, pp. 691--710. in mathSciNet

  13. Hypermomentum and the Microscopic Violation of the Riemannian Constraint in General Relativity. with F. W. Hehl, Eric A. Lord, and Larry L. Smalley. Physics Letters 70B, 1977, pp. 70-72. in MathSciNet

  14. Inhomogeneous Local Gauge Transformations in Spacetimes with Torsion. with F.J. Flaherty. J. Math. Phys. 20, No. 6, June 1979, pp. 1281-1284. in MathSciNet

  15. Finite Reduced Hydrodynamic Equations in the Slow Motion Approximation to General Relativity. Part I. First Post-Newtonian Equations. General Relativity and Gravitation 12, No. 6, June 1980, pp. 467-482.

  16. Finite Reduced Hydrodynamic Equations in the Slow Motion Approximation to General Relativity. Part II. Radiation Reaction and Higher-Order Divergences. General Relativity and Gravitation 12, No, 7., July 1980, pp. 521-543.

    Computational Fluid Dynamics

  17. Calculation of Unsteady Transonic Pressure Distributions by the Indicial Method -- with David Nixon. Journal of Applied Mechanics 49, No. 2, June 1982, pp. 273-278. NEAR paper 117.

  18. Unsteady Transonic Small Disturbance Theory with Strong Shock Waves -- with D. Nixon and W.F. Ballhaus. AIAA Journal 21, No. 6, June 1983, pp. 918-920. Also AIAA Paper 82-0159, Orlando FL, 20th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Jan, 1982. NEAR paper 148.

  19. Mean Values of Unsteady Oscillations in Transonic Flow Calculations -- with D. Nixon. AIAA Journal 19, No, 11, November 1981, pp. 1496-1498. NEAR paper 133.

  20. Numerical Optimization Using a Strained Coordinate Technique -- with D. Nixon. NEAR TR 235, October 1980.

  21. A Supersonic, Three-Dimensional Code for Flow over Blunt Bodies with Lifting and Control Surfaces -- Useers Manual -- with G.H. Klopfer. NEAR TR 250, July 1981.

  22. The Transonic Indicial Theory -- with D. Nixon, Invited talk at AIAA 8th Atmospheric Fluid Mechanics Conference, Albuquerque NM, Aug. 19-23, 1981.

  23. A Numerical Study of Strake Aerodynamics -- with G.H. Klopfer and D. Nixon. NEAR TR 270, January 1982.

  24. Potential Equation Methods for Transonic Flow Prediction -- with D. Nixon, in Transonic Aerodynamics, D. Nixon, ed. Vol. 81 of the series Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, New York, 1982. NEAR paper 149.

  25. Assessing the Quality of Curvilinear Coordinate Meshes by Decomposing the Jacobian Matrix -- with G.H. Klopfer. In Numerical Grid Generation, J.F. Thompson, ed., Elsevier-North Holland, New York, 1982. Appl. Math. Comput. VOl. 10/11 (1982) 787--807. NEAR paper 159.

  26. Transonic Potential Flow -- with D. Nixon. Proc. ICTS Conference on Potential Aerodynamics, Italy 1982. Published in Computational Methods in Potential Aerodynamics. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985, pp.295-367. NEAR paper 166.

  27. A High-Frequency Transonic Small Disturbance Code for Unsteady Flows in a Cascade. AIAA Paper 82-0955, 16th Fluid and Plasmas Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 7-11, 1982. NEAR paper 160.

  28. Perturbation of a Transonic Flow with Vanishing Shock Waves -- with D. Nixon. AIAA Journal Vol. 23, No. 6, June 1985, pp. 965-967. NEAR paper 153.

  29. Adaptive Mesh Solution of Viscous Supersonic Conical Flow in a General Rectilinear Inlet" AIAA Paper 85-1626, July 1985.

  30. Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Supersonic Flow in a General Rectilinear Inlet. AIAA Paper 85-1626, July 1985.

  31. Supersonic Laminar Flow development in a Square Duct -- with D. O. Davis and F.B. Gessner. AIAA Journal 25, No. 1, January 1987, pp. 175-177.

    Computational Electromagnetics

  32. Interactive Display of Scattering Data on the Sphere. Proceedings of the Third Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics, Monterey CA, March 24-26, 1987.

  33. Calculation and Display of the Radar Cross Sections of Complex Targets -- with Alex Woo, 1987 (Classified paper).

  34. Numerical Optimization of Advanced Aircraft Designs, -- with Gary Cosentino, 1987 (Classified paper).

    Grids and Geometry

  35. Geometric Design in Aerodynamic Simulation. Invited Presentation. Research Conference on Geometric Design, Detroit MI, May 4-6, 1987.

  36. Surface Geometry Requirements for Finite-Difference Aerodynamic Calculations. SIAM-RPI Conference on Applied Geometry, Albany, New York, July 20-24, 1987.

  37. Computer Graphics at NASA Ames. Invited Presentation. MSRI Conference on Differential Geometry, Calculus of Variations, and Computer Graphics, Berkeley, CA, May 23-25, 1988.

    Scientific and Engineering Visualization

  38. Experiences with the AT&T Pixel Machine RNR-89-001 NAS Applied Research Office, January 1989.

  39. Using Critical Point Theory to Visualize Scalar Fields RNR-89-006 NASA Applied Research Office, November 24, 1989.

  40. Volumetric Visualization Techniques -- with Craig Upson. In "2D and 3D Visualization Workshop," ACM SIGGRAPH 1989 Tutorial #13, July 31, 1989.

  41. ISOLEV: a level surface cutting plane program for fluid flow data. SPIE Paper 1259-01, Conference on Extracting Meaning from Complex Data, Santa Clara, CA, February 1990. Also preprint RNR-89-007 NAS Applied Research Office, NASA Ames Research Center, 1989.

  42. Moving Iconic Objects in Scientific Visualization, in IEEE Visualization '90, San Francisco CA, October 25, 1990. IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 124-130, 468.

  43. Visualization of Spatially Organized Data. Invited Paper. Physics Computing '91, San Jose, CA, June 1991.

  44. Hardware Requirements for Virtual Reality, Boeing Internal Report, February 1992.

  45. Interactive Visualization, Finite Element Simulation, and Video Production with AVS, Boeing TechNet, v. 7, No. 1, November 1992.

  46. Visualization in a Parallel Distributed Environment, Boeing High Speed Computing Report, (with Video) HSC-92-7, December 1992.

  47. Boeing Long-Range Technology Forecast, Computer Graphics, 1992, 1993,1995.

  48. Towards Interactive Steering, Visualization, and Animation of Unsteady Finite Element Simulations, -- with E. Kirby. In IEEE Visualization '93, San Jose CA, October, 1993. IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 374-377, CP-38.

  49. Computer Graphics and Visualization, Boeing Technology Seminar, 1994.

  50. Remote and Collaborative Visualization Demonstration, Boeing TechNet, v. 8, No.2, Spring 1994.

  51. Visualization of Helicopter Rotor Wakes -- Simulation and Experiment. IEEE Visualization '95, Atlanta GA, November 1995, IEEE Press, Los Alamitos CA, pp 351--354, CP-42.

  52. Four Lectures on Graphics and Visualization -- Bad Honnef, 1995. Lectures in Relativity, Computer Algebra, and Numerics, Springer-Verlag, 1996.

  53. Modular Server Architectures for Metrology Analysis and Visualization, invited paper, Boeing Large-Scale Optical Metrology Symposium, Long Beach Calif, February 2000.

  54. Performance Testing of a Parallel Multiblock CFD Solver -- with Eric Dillon and David Levine, International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications v. 15(1) Spring 2001, pp.22-35.

  55. Parallel Performance of two applications in the Boeing high performance computing benchmark suite. -- with Joe Manke and David Levine. Parallel Computing v.27(4) 2001 pp. 457-475.

  56. The Legion and Globus Grid Computing Environments for Boeing Applications, -- with Phyllis Melvin and Edward C. Klein, Jr., Boeing internal report 10 December 2001.

  57. Port of Carlos V4.5.4 to Intel Xeon Processor running Linux. Boeing internal report 18 Dec. 2002.

  58. Parallel CARLOS for Linux Clusters, -- with David K. Wah, Boeing internal report 2 July 2003.

Preprints etc.