Larry Fried | People

Biography

Lead for High Explosive Experiments and Modeling in the Capabilities for Nuclear Intelligence program, 2012-present
Lead for High Explosive Experiments in the Campaign 2 program, 2006-present
Lead for High Explosive Modeling in the Advanced Scientific Computing program, 2003-present

Internationally recognized leader in high explosive science and high pressure chemistry
155 peer-reviewed publications
4100 citations
38 invited presentations
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Member of the American Chemical Society

"Using Force Matching to Determine Reactive Force Fields for Water Under Extreme Thermodynamic Conditions," L. Kozio, L. E. Fried, N. Goldman, J. Chem. Theory and Computation, 13, 135-146 (2017)
"Determination of Enthalpies of Formation of Energetic Molecules With Composite Quantum Chemical Methods," Chemical Physics Letters, 648, (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2016.01.071

"Using Force-Matched Potentials to Improve the Accuracy of Density Functional Tight Binding for Reactive Conditions," N. Goldman, L. E. Fried, L. Koziol, J. Chem. Theory and Computation, 4350-4535 (2015)
"Direct Numerical Simulation of Shear Localization and Decomposition Reactions in Shock-Loaded HMX Crystal," A. Ryan, N. Barton, J. E. Reaugh, L. E. Fried, J. Appl. Phys., 117, 185902 (2015).
R. A. Austin, N. R. Barbon, J. E. Reaugh, L. E. Fried, "Direct Numerical Simulation of Shear Localization and Decomposition Reactions in Shock-Loaded HMX Crystal", J. App. Phys., 117, 185902(2015)

M. R. Manaa, I-F. W. Kuo, and L. E. Fried, "First-principles high-pressure unreacted equation of state and heat of formation of crystal 2,6-diamino-3, 5-dinitropyrazine-1-oxide (LLM-105)", J. Chem. Phys., 141, 064702 (2014).
M. R. Manaa and L. E. Fried, "The Reactivity of Energetic Materials Under High Pressure and Temperature", in Advances in Quantum Chemistry, 69, 221-242, J. R. Sabin, Ed., Elsevier Press (2014).

E. J. Reed, A. W. Rodriguez, M. R. Manaa, L. E. Fried, C. M. Tarver, "Ultrafast detonation of hydrozoic acid (HN3)", Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, 038301(2012).
N. Goldman and L. E. Fried, "Extending the Density Functional Tight Binding Method to Carbon Under Extreme Conditions," Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116, 3, Special Issue, 2198-2204, 2012.

N. Goldman, E. J. Reed, L. E. Fried, I. F. W. Kuo, A. Maiti, "Synthesis of glycine-containing complexes in impacts of comets on early Earth", Nature Chemistry, 2, 949-954 (2010).

C. J. Wu, L. E. Fried, L. H. Yang, N. Goldman, S. Bastea "Catalytic behavior of hot dense water", Nature Chemistry, 1, 57-62(2009).
M. R. Manaa, E. J. Reed, L. E. Fried, N. Goldman, "Nitrogen-rich heterocycles as reactivity retardants in shocked insensitive explosives", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131, 5483-5487 (2009).

LLNL Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, 2019
NNSA Weapons Excellence Award, 2014, for excellence in experimentation and modeling of insensitive high explosives for Global Security applications
NNSA Weapons Excellence Award, 2012, for velocimetry pin shot
NNSA Weapons Excellence Award, 2012, for cutting-edge uncertainty quantification
NNSA Weapons Excellence Award, 2011, for scaled hydrodynamic experiments
Fellow of the American Physical Society, November, 2009
Plenary Speaker, DOE Basic Research Needs on Materials Under Extreme Conditions, 2007
Plenary Speaker, American Physical Society Symposium on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, 2005
Chair, Gordon Conference on Energetic Materials, 2004
DOE Weapons Excellence Award, 2001, for development of the Cheetah thermochemical code
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1989-1991
American Chemical Society Proctor and Gamble Award in Physical Chemistry, 1988
Wentink Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 1988
Mathematical Sciences Institute Fellow, Cornell University, 1987-1988