Dr. Paul Woodward is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Minnesota, a Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, and
Graphics and Visualization Officer at the University's
Army High Performance
Computing Research Center. He has been involved in scientific
visualization of fluid flows, and in high-speed computer animation of
images from supercomputer simulations in particular, since 1986. The fluid
flow simulations performed by his group in Minnesota on supercomputers
built by Cray Research, Thinking Machines, and Silicon Graphics were carried out using the
Piecewise-Parabolic Method (PPM) which he developed with collaborators at
the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory and at the University of
Minnesota.
The PowerWall team at Minnesota includes:
Back row: Jeff Stromberg, Russell Cattelan, S. Anderson, Michael Palmer
Front row: Matthew O'Keefe, Thomas Jacobson, Thomas Ruwart, Paul Woodward,
David Porter, Aaron Sawdey
Not Pictured: Kevin Edgar, Amir Shinar, Steve Soltis, Thomas Varghese