Oscar Buneman

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Oscar Buneman
Born(1913-09-28)28 September 1913
Died24 January 1993(1993-01-24) (aged 79)
Alma materUniversity of Manchester[1]
ChildrenPeter Buneman
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University[2]
Doctoral advisorDouglas Hartree[1]
Doctoral studentsJohn Holdren[3]

Oscar Buneman (28 September 1913 – 24 January 1993) made advances in science, engineering, and mathematics. Buneman was a pioneer of computational plasma physics and plasma simulation.[2][4]

Career[]

In 1940 upon completion of his PhD with Douglas Hartree,[1] Buneman joined Hartree's magnetron research group assisting the development of radar during World War II. They discovered the Buneman–Hartree criterion for the voltage threshold of a magnetron operation. After the war, Buneman developed theories and simulations of collision-less dissipation of currents[5] called the Buneman instability. This is an example of anomalous resistivity or absorption. It is anomalous because the phenomenon does not depend on collisions. Buneman advanced elliptic equation[disambiguation needed] solver methods and their associated applications (as well as for the fast Fourier transforms).

Personal life[]

On 24 January 1993 Oscar Buneman at the age of 79 died near Stanford University. The computer scientist Peter Buneman is his son.

Publications[]

  • Buneman, O., "Time reversible difference procedures". Journal of Computers Physics. 1, 517 (1967).
  • Buneman, O., "A compact non-iterative poisson-solver". SUIPR report 294, Stanford University (1969).
  • Buneman, O., "Fast numerical procedures for computer experiments on relativistic plasmas, in "Relativistic Plasmas (The Coral Gables Conference)", Benjamin, NY, 1968.
  • Buneman, O. (1973). "Subgrid resolution of flow and force fields". Journal of Computational Physics. 11 (2): 250–268. doi:10.1016/0021-9991(73)90006-5.
  • Buneman, O., and et al., "Principles and capabilities of 3d EM particle simulations". Journal of Computational Physics. 38, 1 (1980).

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Oscar Buneman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Buneman, R.; Barker, R. J.; Peratt, A. L.; Brecht, S. H.; Langdon, A. B.; Lewis, H. R. (1994). "A tribute to Oscar Buneman - pioneer of plasma simulation". IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 22: 22. doi:10.1109/27.281546.
  3. ^ Holdren, John Paul (1970). Collisionless Stability of an Inhomogeneous, Confied, Planar Plasma (PhD thesis). Stanford University. ProQuest 302557782.
  4. ^ Oscar Buneman's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Buneman, O. (1959). "Dissipation of Currents in Ionized Media". Physical Review. 115 (3): 503–517. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.115.503.

External links and resources[]

  • Langdon, Bruce, "Remembrances of Oscar Buneman". ICNSP'98.
  • Oscar Buneman Papers
  • Rita Meyer-Spasche/Rolf Tomas Nossum: Persecution and Patronage: Oscar Buneman's years in Britain. In: Almagest, International Journal for the History of Scientific Ideas, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2016


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