Publications

Mohammad Elahi, Max Bloomfield, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc, Jacob Merson (2026). Accelerated Transient Multiscale Workflow for Thermal Analysis of 3DHI Chip Stack. The Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems.

Jacob Merson, Hunter Belanger, Parth Singh (2026). Spatially Continuous Functional Expansion Tallies on Unstructured Meshes. PHYSOR 2026 - The International Conference on Physics of Reactors.

Abhiyan Paudel, Cameron W. Smith, Jacob Merson (2026). A Stochastic Conservative Field Transfer Method for Black-box Multiscale and Multiphysics Coupling.

Jacob Merson, Cameron W. Smith, Mark S. Shephard, Fuad Hasan, Abhiyan Paudel, Angel Castillo-Crooke, Joyal Mathew, Mohammad Elahi (2025). PCMS: Parallel Coupler for Multimodel Simulations. arXiv.

Amogh Wasti, Zongmin Yang, Matthew Galarza, Jonas Kendra, Davis Knight, Max Bloomfield, Timothy Chainer, Roy Yu, Prabudhya Chowdhury, Aakrati Jain, Jacob Merson, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc (2025). Effective Medium Approximation in Investigating Heat Transfer Through Multiple Sandwiched Layers of BEOL Materials. HT2025.

Amogh Wasti, Zongmin Yang, Matthew Galarza, Jonas Kendra, Davis Knight, Max Bloomfield, Timothy Chainer, Roy Yu, Prabudhya Chowdhury, Aakrati Jain, Jacob Merson, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc (2025). Experimental Cross-Plane Thermal Transport Characterization of BEOL Materials and Sensitivity to In-Plane Thermal Transport. 2025 24th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm).

Max Bloomfield, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc, Amogh Wasti, Zongmin Yang, Matthew Galarza, Timothy Chainer, Prabudhya Chowdhury, Aakrati Jain, Jacob Merson (2025). A Multiscale Workflow for Thermal Analysis of 3DI Chip Stacks. The Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems.

Mark F. Adams, Peng Wang, Jacob Merson, Kevin Huck, Matthew G. Knepley (2025). A Performance Portable, Fully Implicit Landau Collision Operator with Batched Linear Solvers. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.

Fuad Hasan, Cameron W. Smith, Mark S. Shephard, R. Michael Churchill, George J. Wilkie, Paul K. Romano, Patrick C. Shriwise, Jacob Merson (2025). GPU Acceleration of Monte Carlo Tallies on Unstructured Meshes in OpenMC with PUMI-Tally. arXiv.

Nishan Parvez, Jacob Merson (2024). A Physics Preserving Neural Network Based Approach for Constitutive Modeling of Isotropic Fibrous Materials. Engineering with Computers.

Mithun Dey, Jacob Merson, Catalin R. Picu (2024). Evaluation of the Parallel Coupling Constitutive Model for Biomaterials Using a Fully Coupled Network-Matrix Model. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials.

Mark S. Shephard, Jacob Merson, Onkar Sahni, Angel E. Castillo, Aditya Y. Joshi, Dhyanjyoti D. Nath, Usman Riaz, E. Seegyoung Seol, Cameron W. Smith, Chonglin Zhang, Mark W. Beall, Ottmar Klaas, Rocco Nastasia, Saurabh Tendulkar (2024). Unstructured mesh tools for magnetically confined fusion system simulations. Engineering with Computers.

Jacob Merson, Catalin R. Picu, Mark S. Shephard (2024). A New Open-Source Framework for Multiscale Modeling of Fibrous Materials on Heterogeneous Supercomputers. Engineering with Computers.

Philip E. Davis, Jacob Merson, Pradeep Subedi, Lee Ricketson, Cameron W. Smith, Mark S. Shephard, Manish Parashar (2023). Benesh: Choreographic Coordination for In-Situ Workflows. 30th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC).

Nishan Parvez, Jacob Merson, Catalin R. Picu (2023). Stiffening Mechanisms in Stochastic Athermal Fiber Networks. Physical Review E.

Jacob Merson, Mark S. Shephard (2023). Using Hierarchical Parallelism to Accelerate the Solution of Many Small Partial Differential Equations. arXiv.

M B Prime, Jacob Merson, S R Chen (2023). Physical Regime Sensitivity. Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials.

Jacob Merson, Nishan Parvez, Catalin R. Picu (2022). Probing Soft Fibrous Materials by Indentation. Acta Biomaterialia.

Jacob Merson, Catalin R. Picu (2022). Random Fiber Network Loaded by a Point Force. Journal of Applied Mechanics.

Jacob Merson, Mark S Shephard (2021). Model-Traits: Model Attribute Definitions for Scientific Simulations in C++. The Journal of Open Source Software.

Jacob Merson, Catalin R. Picu (2020). Size Effects in Random Fiber Networks Controlled by the Use of Generalized Boundary Conditions. International Journal of Solids and Structures.

Catalin R. Picu, Vineet Negi, Jacob Merson (2016). Ultra-Composites: Designing Stochastic Composites with Large Microstructural Variability. Romanian Journal of Technical Sciences Applied Mechanics.

Jacob Merson, Michael B. Prime, Manuel L. Lovato, Cheng Liu (2016). In-Situ DIC and Strain Gauges to Isolate the Deficiencies in a Model for Indentation Including Anisotropic Plasticity. Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volume 9.