Selected Publications

Dr. William C. Mead

ANSR, Inc.


"Two-Dimensional Simulation of Fluid Instability in Laser-Fusion Pellets," J. D. Lindl and W. C. Mead, Physical Review Letters Vol. 34, 1273 (1975).

"Observation and Simulation of Parylene Discs Irradiated at High Intensities with a 1.06-mm Laser," W. C. Mead, R. A. Haas, W. L. Kruer, D. W. Phillion, H. N. Kornblum, J. D. Lindl, D. R. MacQuigg, and V. C. Rupert, Physical Review Letters Vol. 37, 489 (1976).

"Compression of Polymer-Coated Laser-Fusion Targets to Ten Times Liquid DT Density," J. M. Auerbach, W. C. Mead, E. M. Campbell, D. L. Matthews, D. S. Bailey, C. W. Hatcher, L. N. Koppel, S. M. Lane, P. H. Y. Lee, K. R. Manes, G. McClellan, D. W. Phillion, R. H. Price, V. C. Rupert, V. W. Slivinsky, and C. D. Swift, Physical Review Letters Vol. 44, 1672 (1980).

"Scaling of Ablative Laser Fusion Implosions," C. E. Max, C. F. McKee, and W. C. Mead, Physical Review Letters Vol. 45, 28 (1980).

"Laser Irradiation of Disk Targets at 0.53 mm Wavelength," W. C. Mead, E. M. Campbell, K. G. Estabrook, R. E. Turner, W. L. Kruer, P. H. Y. Lee, B. Pruett, V. C. Rupert, K. G. Tirsell, G. L. Stradling, F. Ze, C. E. Max, M. D. Rosen, and B. F. Lasinski, Physics of Fluids Vol. 26, 2316 (1983).

"Effect of Symmetry Requirements on the Wavelength Scaling of Directly Driven Laser Fusion Implosions," C. E. Max, J. D. Lindl, and W. C. Mead, Nuclear Fusion Vol. 23, 131 (1983).

"Characteristics of Lateral and Axial Transport in Laser Irradiations of Layered-Disk Targets at 1.06 and 0.35 mm Wavelengths," W. C. Mead, E. M. Campbell, W. L. Kruer, R. E. Turner, C. W. Hatcher, D. S. Bailey, P. H. Y. Lee, J. Foster, K. G. Tirsell, B. Pruett, N. C. Holmes, R. J. Trainor, G. L. Stradling, B. F. Lasinski, C. E. Max, and F. Ze, Physics of Fluids Vol. 27, 1301 (1984).

"Measurement and Analysis of Near-Classical Thermal Transport in One-Micron Laser-Irradiated Spherical Plasmas," A. Hauer, W. C. Mead, O. Willi, J. D. Kilkenny, D. K. Bradley, S. D. Tabatabaei, and C. Hooker, Physical Review Letters Vol. 53, 2563 (1984).

"The Physics of Burn in Magnetized Deuterium-Tritium Plasmas," R. D. Jones and W. C. Mead, Nuclear Fusion Vol. 26, 127 (1986).

"Scaling of High-Z Laser Plasmas with Energy and Pulse Length," S. R. Goldman and W. C. Mead, Nuclear Fusion Vol. 26, 813 (1986).

"Analysis, Modeling, and Design of Short-Wavelength Laser-Plasma Experiments," W. C. Mead, S. V. Coggeshall, S. R. Goldman, E. K. Stover, P. D. Goldstone, J. Cobble, A. Hauer, G. Stradling, J. M. Kindel, L. Montierth, M. C. Richardson, O. Barnouin, P. Jaanimagi, F. Marshall, R. Marjoribanks, R. L. Kaufman, H. N. Kornblum, and B. F. Lasinski, in Laser Interaction and Related Phenomena, Vol. 7, Ed. H. Hora and G. Miley (Plenum, New York, 1986), p. 723.

"Dynamics of High-Z Plasmas Produced by a Short-Wavelength Laser," P. D. Goldstone, S. R. Goldman, W. C. Mead, J. A. Cobble, G. Stradling, R. H. Day, A. Hauer, M. C. Richardson, R. S. Marjoribanks, P. A. Jaanimagi, R. L. Keck, F. J. Marshall, W. Seka, O. Barnouin, B. Yaakobi, and S. A. Letzring, Physical Review Letters Vol. 59, 56 (1987).

"Self Focusing and Filamentation of Laser Light in High Z Plasmas," R. D. Jones, W. C. Mead, C. H. Aldrich, S. V. Coggeshall, J. L. Norton, G. D. Pollak, and J. M. Wallace, Physics of Fluids Vol. 31, 1249 (1988).

"`Flicker' in Small Scale Laser-Plasma Self-Focusing," S. V. Coggeshall, W. C. Mead, and R. D. Jones, Physics of Fluids Vol. 31, 2750 (1988).

"Modeling, Measurements, and Analysis of X-ray Emission from 0.26-mm-Laser-Irradiated Gold Disks," W. C. Mead, E. K. Stover, R. L. Kaufman, H. N. Kornblum, and B. F. Lasinski, Physical Review Vol. A38, 5275 (1988).

"A Current Prediction of the ICF Gain Curve, Its Uncertainties, and Implications for ICF Strategy," W. C. Mead, B. Bezzerides, S. V. Coggeshall, H. N. Fisher, N. M. Hoffman, and G. R. Magelssen, in Proceedings of the XIIIth International Confonference on Plasma Phys. and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, Oct. 1-6, 1990, Washington, DC (IAEA,Vienna, 1991).

"Nonlinear Adaptive Networks: A Little Theory, A Few Applications," R. D. Jones, Y. C. Lee, S. Qian, C. W. Barnes, K. R. Bisset, G. M. Bruce, G. W. Flake, K. Lee, L. A. Lee, W. C. Mead, M. K. O'Rourke, I. Poli, and L. E. Thode, in Proceedings of the First Los Alamos Conference on Cognitive Modeling in System Control, June 10-14, 1990, Santa Fe, NM.

"Prediction of Chaotic Time Series using CNLS-Net-- Example: The Mackey-Glass Equation," W. C. Mead, R. D. Jones, Y. C. Lee, C. W. Barnes, G. W. Flake, L. A. Lee, and M. K. O'Rourke, in Nonlinear Modeling and Forecasting, Ed. M. Casdagli and S. Eubank (Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, 1992), p. 39.

"Connectionist Hyperprism Neural Network for the Analysis of Ion Mobility Spectra: An Empirical Evaluation," S. E. Bell, W. C. Mead, R. D. Jones, G. A. Eiceman, and R. E. Ewing, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Science Vol. 33, 609 (1993).

"Optimization and Control of a Small-Angle Negative Ion Source Using an On-Line Adaptive Controller Based on the Connectionist Normalized Local Spline Neural Network," W. C. Mead, S. K. Brown, R. D. Jones, P. S. Bowling, and C. W. Barnes, Nuclear Instruments and Methods Vol. A352, 309 (1994).

"Application of Adaptive and Neural Network Computational Techniques to Traffic Volume and Classification Monitoring," W. C. Mead, H. N. Fisher, R. D. Jones, K. R. Bisset, and L. A. Lee, Transportation Res. Record Vol. 1466, 116 (1994).

"Optimization and Control of a Small-Angle Negative Ion Source Using an On-Line Adaptive Controller Based on the Connectionist Normalized Local Spline Neural Network," S. K. Brown, P. S. Bowling, W. C. Mead, and R. D. Jones, in Handbook of Neural Computation (Oxford Univ. Press, NY, 1996).

Plus many others!

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