RPK

Computer Software Engineering

Publications

Richard and recent Co-Author Dr. Douglas Post, past DoD HPCMP CREATE(tm) Program Manager

Refereed Publications (Listed Chronologically)

1. “A Consideration of the Euler Phi-function,” M.A. Thesis, University of Texas, Austin, Texas (1964).

2. “Two Simple Lower Bounds for the Euler phi-function,” with R. Osborn, Texas J. Sci., VXI, pages 324-328 (1964).

3.  “An Approximate Factorization Procedure for Solving Self-Adjoint Difference Equations” with T. DuPont, and H.H. Rachford, SIAM J. Num. Anal.,1968, vol. 5, pages 559-573. [410 citations]

4. “Asymptotic Rounding Error Analysis of Some Iterative Procedures for Solution of Finite Difference Analogues for Self-Adjoint Dirichlet Problems,” Ph.D. Thesis, Math, Rice University (1972).

5. “A Crank-Nicholson-H-1 Galerkin Procedure for Parabolic Problems in a Single-Space Variable” with M.F. Wheeler, SIAM J. Num. Anal., 1976, vol. 13, pages 861-876. 

6. “Sources and Sinks in Reservoirs,” with L.H. Hay, M.F. Wheeler, IMACS Symposium, Rutgers University (June 1977).

7. “Long Wave Regularization of One-Dimensional, Two-Phase, Immiscible Flow in Porous Media,” with J. Douglas, Jr. and M.F. Wheeler, Finite Element Methods for Convection Dominated Flows, Appl. Mech. Div., ASME, 1979, vol. 34, 979 pp.

8. “Self-Adaptive Finite-Element and Finite Difference Methods for 1-D Immiscible Flow,” with J. Douglas, Jr. and M.F. Wheeler, Proceedings of the 5th  SPE Numerical Symposium, SPE 7679, Denver, Colorado (1979).

9. “Self-Adaptive Galerkin Methods for One-Dimensional Miscible and Immiscible Displacement,” with J. Douglas, Jr., M.F. Wheeler, and B.L. Darlow, Journal of Petroleum Technology, 1979, vol. 31, no.1, 68 pp.

10. “Development of a Multiple Application Reservoir Simulator, MARS, for use on a Vector Computer,” with G.O. Morrell, D.W. Peaceman, J.W. Watts, and W.J. Silliman, Journal of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, SPE 11483, 1982, pages 335-348.

11. “Self-Adaptive Finite-Element and Finite-Difference Methods for One-Dimensional, 2-Phase Immiscible Flow,”with J. Douglas, Jr., M.F. Wheeler, and B.L. Darlow, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 1984, vol. 47, no.1-2, pages 119-130.

12. “Self-Adaptive Finite-Elements in the Simulation of Miscible Displacement in Porous Media,” with J. Douglas, Jr., M.F. Wheeler, and B.L. Darlow, Computational Methods in Appl. Mech. Eng., 1984, vol. 47, no. 1-2, pages131-159.

13. “The Impact of Vector Processors on Petroleum Reservoir Simulation” with J.S. Nolen and P.L. Stanat, Proc. of the IEEE, January 1984, vol. 72, no. 1, pages 85-89.

14. “Constrained Residual Acceleration of Conjugate Residual Methods,” with J.R. Wallis and T.E. Little, Proceedings of the 8th SPE Symposium on Reservoir Simulation, Dallas, SPE 13536, 1985, pages 415-428. [287 citations]

15. “A New Parallel Iterative Linear Solution Method for Large Scale Reservoir Simulation” with J.R. Wallis and J.A. Foster, Proceeding of the 11th SPE Symposium on Reservoir Simulation, Anaheim, SPE 21209, 1991, pages 83-92. (also see Cray Channels, vol. 13, no.2, pages11-15.)

16. “Large Scale Reservoir Simulation in the Concurrent Processing Milieu,” with J.R. Wallis, J.R. Foster, and J.S. Nolen, Proceedings of Supercomputing ’91, Albuquerque, 1991, pages 542-553.

17. “Advanced Reservoir Management for Independent Oil & Gas Producers,” with A.G. Sgro, J.M.  Kindel, R.B. Webster, and E.M. Whitney, Proceedings of the 1996 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 1996, vol. Π, pages 685-693.

18.  “Improved Oil Recovery for Independent Oil & Gas Producers,” with A.G. Sgro, J.M. Kindel, R.B. Webster, and E.M. Whitney, SPE 35404, Proceedings of the 10th SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, 1996, vol.2, pages 47-56.

19. “Using Reservoir Characterization Results at the Nash Draw Pool to Improve

Completion Design and Stimulation Treatments,” with B. Stubbs, et al, Proceedings of the 1998 Permian Basin Oil & Gas Recovery Conference, SPE 39775, Midland, TX, 1998, pages 219-230.

20. “Implementation of a Virtual Enterprise for Reservoir Management Applications,” with F.D. Martin, et al, Proceedings of the 1997 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, SPE 38868, 1997, vol. Σ, pages 251-259.

21. “Advanced Reservoir Characterization for Improved Oil Recovery in a New Mexico Delaware Basin Project,” with F.D. Martin, et al, AAPG Memoirs, 1999, vol. 71, pages 93-107.

22. “Integrated Reservoir Management for the Long-Term — the Carpinteria Offshore Field,” with E. Whitney, et, al. Marine Geosources and Geotechnology, 1999, vol.17, no.2, pages 103-116.

23. “Reservoir Characterization as a Risk Reduction Tool at the Nash Draw Pool,” with      F.D. Martin, et al, SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, Apr 1999,vol.2, no.2, pages 169-179.

24. “A New Technique to Determine Porosity and Deep Resistivity from Old Gamma Ray and Neutron Count Logs,”With W.W. Weiss, et al., Proceedings of the SPE Permian Basin Oil & Gas Recovery Conference, SPE 59553, Midland, 2000.

25. “Assessing the Potential Redevelopment of a 1960’s Vintage Oil Field,” with W.W. Weiss, et al, Proceedings of SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, SPE 59297, Tulsa, 2000.

26. “Software Project Management and Quality Engineering Practices for Complex, Coupled Multi-Physics, Massively Parallel Computational Simulations: Lessons Learned from ASCI,” D. E. Post and R. P. Kendall, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, vol. 18, 2004, p.399-416. DOE Software Quality Forum 2003 Award Winner

27. “Case Study of the Falcon Code Project,” D. E. Post, R. P. Kendall, and E. M. Whitney, Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on HPC applications, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, St. Louis, MO, 2005.

28. “The Opportunities, Challenges and Risks of High Performance Computing in Computational Science and Engineering,” D.E. Post, R.P. Kendall and R.F. Lucas, Chapter in book: Advances in Computers, Quality Software Development, 66,  (2006), M. Zelkowitz, Ed., Academic Press Elsevier, Amsterdam, ISBN 0-12-012166-2, pages 239-301.           

29. “Large-Scale Computational Science and Engineering Project Development and Production Workflows,” D.E. Post and R.P. Kendall, CTWatch (online), October 2006.

30. “Observations about software development for high end computing,” with J. Carver, L. Hochstein, and Douglass Post, CTWatch (online), November 2006.

31. “Software Development Environments for Scientific and Engineering Software: A Series of Case Studies,” with D. Post, S. Squires, and J. Carver, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance Computing System Applications (Held at ICSE 2007), May, 2007. [198 citations]

32. “A new DoD initiative: the Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE) program,” with Douglass Post and 20 others, J. Phys: Conf. Ser. 125 012090.

33. “Developing a Weather Forecasting Code: A Case Study,” with J.C. Carver, D.A. Fisher, D. Henderson, A. Mark, D.E. Post, C.E. Rhoades, Jr., and S. Squires, IEEE Software, July/August 2008, pages 59-65.

34. “Condor-A Case Study of a Large-Scale, Physics-Based Computational Engineering Code Development Project,”with Andrew Mark, Susan Squires, and Christine Halverson, CiSE, v12, no. 3, May/June 2010, pp. 22-27.

35. “Case Study of the Nene Code Project,” with Douglass Post and Andrew Mark, CiSE, v12, no 3, May/June 2010, pp. 28-33.

36. “Enhancing Engineering Productivity,” with Douglass Post, CiSE, v 17, no. 4, July 2015, pp. 4-6.

37. “CREATE: Software Engineering Applications for the Design and Analysis of Air Vehicles, Naval Vessels, and Radio Frequency Antennas, “with Douglass Post and others, CiSE, v18, no 1, Jan/Feb 2016, pp. 14-24.

38. “A Risk-Based, Practice-Centered Approach to Project Management for HPCMP CREATE,” with Douglass Post and 10 others, CiSE, v 18, no. 1 Jan/Feb 2016, pp. 40-51.

40. “Risk-Based Software Development Practices for CREATE Multiphysics HPC Software Applications,” with Douglass Post, L.G. Votta and 7 others, CiSE, v 18, no. 6, Nov/Dec 2016, pp 35-46.

40. “Verification and Validation in CREATE Multiphysics HPC Software Applications,” with Douglass Post, L.G. Votta, E.T Moyer and S.A. Morton, CiSE, v 19, no. 6, Nov/Dec 2017, pp 18-26.

41. “The HPCMP CREATE(tm) Program Management Model-Part 1,” with Nathan Hariharan, Robert L. Meakin, Keith Bergeron, and Douglass. E. Post, AIAA SciTech 2021 Forum, Jan 2021, 12 pages.

42. The HPCMP CREATE(tm) Program management Model-Part II,” with

40. “Verification and Validation in CREATE Multiphysics HPC Software Applications,” with Douglass Post, L.G. Votta, E.T Moyer and S.A. Morton, CiSE, v 19, no. 6, Nov/Dec 2017, pp 18-26.

41. “The HPCMP CREATE(tm) Program Management Model-Part I,” with Nathan Hariharan, Robert L. Meakin, Keith Bergeron, and Douglass. E. Post, AIAA SciTech 2021 Forum (virtual), Jan 2021, 12 pages.

42. “The HPCMP CREATE(tm) Program Management Model-Part II,” with Nathan Hariharan, Robert L. Meakin, Keith Bergeron, and Douglass. E. Post, AIAA SciTech 2021 Forum (virtual), Jan 2021, 12 pages.

43. “The Successful Adoption of DevOps Practices in Software Development in DoD Acquisition Programs – The CREATE Example,” with Nathan S. Hariharan, David R. Sears, and Douglass E. Post, Defense Acquisition Research Journal, issue 104, Vol 30, No 2, July 2023, 16 pages.

Published Reports

Richard and his colleagues at LANL
  • “A Stable k-step Method of Order Greater Than k+2 for the Solution Ordinary Differential Equations” with W.P. Timlake, IBM technical report 37,002, April 1967.
  • “Case Study of the Hawk Code Project,” with D. Post, S. Squires and J. Carver, LANL Report LA-UR-05-9011, October, 2005.
  • “Case Study of the Eagle Code Project,” with D. Post, S. Squires and J. Carver, LANL Report LA-UR-06-1092, February, 2006.
  • “A Proposed Taxonomy for Software Development Risks for High Performance Computing (HPC) Scientific/Engineering Applications,” with Douglass Post, et al, CMU/SEI Technical Note: CMU/SEI-2006-TN-039, Dec 2006.

Invited Presentations

Richard (leftmost) at 1991 European SPE/SEG Meeting Mixer in Florence, IT
  1. “The Role of Mathematics in the Petroleum Industry,” SIAM Annual Meeting, Knoxville, Invited Address (1978).
  2. “Self Adaptive Finite-Element and Finite Difference Methods for Immiscible Flow,” AMS Fall Meeting, Biloxi (1979).
  3. “Successful Applications of Numerical Reservoir Simulation,” SPE Distinguished Lecturer (1986-1987).
  4. “Reservoir Simulation – A Status Report,” Eighth SPE Numerical Symposium, Houston (1989). (Keynote lecture)
  5. “Petrotechnical Software Integration: The Supermarket Era,” IBM Scientific & Technical Computing Conference, Orlando (1991).
  6. “The Shamrock Corporation – A New Paradigm for the Petrotechnical Computing Environment,” IBM Scientific and Technical Computing Conference, Palm Springs (1992).
  7. “Future Directions in the Use of MPP in Petroleum Applications,” SPE Petroleum Computing Conference, New Orleans (1993).
  8. “A Web-based Model for a Virtual Oil & Gas Enterprise,” Albuquerque Petroleum Club, Albuquerque, NM, March 1999.
  9. “Some Examples of Environmental Modeling at Los Alamos National Laboratory,” SIAM Southwest Regional Meeting, Houston, TX, April 2001.
  10. “Software Development Challenges in Computational Science and Engineering: Can Software Engineering Play a Role?” Informatik 2008, Munich, Germany, Sep 2008.