Walter L. Atchison

Walter L. Atchison received the B.S. degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1975, the M.S. degree in physics from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering applied science from the University of California, Davis, in 1990. He retired from the Air Force in 1994 and is currently with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, performing design and analysis of experiments in support of the Nuclear Weapons Technology Program. These experiments focused on hydrodynamic code validation experiments using the PEGASUS and ATLAS facilities, as well as explosive pulsed-power systems. His current research interests include studies of shock physics, modeling hydrodynamic phenomena in convergent geometries, and material properties.