
Carol Woodward
Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
COMP / CASC DIV / Center for Applied Scientific Computing Division

Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
COMP / CASC DIV / Center for Applied Scientific Computing Division
Dr. Carol Woodward is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her research interests include numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations, nonlinear and linear solvers, time integration methods, numerical software development, and parallel computing. She currently is the Director of the Frameworks, Algorithms, and Software Technologies (FASTMath) SciDAC Institute. She also leads the development and deployment of the SUNDIALS package of time integrators and nonlinear solvers which garners over 100,000 downloads/clones each year. Further, Dr. Woodward participates in an earth system SciDAC partnership project on Assessing and Improving Numerical Convergence in Atmospheric Physics, a SciDAC partnership on Non-Equilibrium quantum dynamical system simulations, a SciDAC partnership on Development of High-Fidelity Simulation Capabilities for ELM-Free Design Optimization, and a SciDAC partnership on Next Generation Grid Simulations.
Dr. Woodward serves on the editorial board for ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and has served on numerous organizing committees for national and international meetings. Dr. Woodward was named to the 2017 Class of Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and to the 2021 Class of Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics. In 2015 Dr. Woodward was one of 15 early- and mid-career scientists and engineers recognized by LLNL for exceptional technical achievement.
Dr. Woodward serves as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She served as Vice President-at-Large of SIAM 2018–2021. In addition, she served as Numerical Methods Group Leader and Postdoctoral Program Manager in the LLNL Center for Applied Scientific Computing, and six years as an elected member of the SIAM Council. She has also held offices in the SIAM activity groups on Geosciences and Computational Science and Engineering.
Dr. Carol Woodward has been a computational mathematician in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) since June of 1996. Prior to that time, she attended Rice University where she received a PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics and Louisiana State University where she graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics. She completed high school at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and Arts, a two year residential high school that emphasizes advanced study in mathematics, sciences, humanities, and arts.
A position paper Woodward wrote with colleague, Jeff Hittinger, discussing some of the things DOE labs look for in trained computational scientists can be found on the Computing website.
For other information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_S._Woodward
For ORC ID information, see: orcid.org/0000-0002-6502-8659
Wan H, Zhang K, Vogl CJ, Woodward CS, Easter RC, Rasch PJ, Feng Y, Wang H. Numerical coupling of aerosol emissions, dry removal, and turbulent mixing in the E3SM Atmosphere Model version 1 (EAMv1)–Part 1: Dust budget analyses and the impacts of a revised coupling scheme. Geoscientific Model Development. 2024 Feb 16;17(3):1387-407.
Loffeld JJ, Nonaka A, Reynolds DR, Gardner DJ, Woodward CS. Performance of explicit and IMEX MRI multirate methods on complex reactive flow problems within modern parallel adaptive structured grid frameworks. The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. 2024 Feb 25:10943420241227914.
Zhang S, Vogl CJ, Larson VE, Bui QM, Wan H, Rasch PJ, Woodward CS. Removing numerical pathologies in a turbulence parameterization through convergence testing. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2023 May;15(5):e2023MS003633.
C. Vogl, S. Zhang, C. Woodward, H. Wan, P. Stinis, “Improving Time Step Convergence in an Atmosphere Model With Simplified Physics: Using Mathematical Rigor to Avoid Nonphysical Behavior in a Parameterization." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2020 Oct;12(10):e2019MS001974.
H. Wan, C. Woodward, S. Zhang, C. Vogl, P. Stinis, D. Gardner, P. Rasch, X. Zeng, V. Larsen, and B. Singh, “Improving Time Step Convergence in an Atmosphere Model With Simplified Physics: The Impacts of Closure Assumption and Process Coupling." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2020 Oct;12(10):e2019MS001982.
S. Guenther, R. D. Falgout, P. Top, C. S. Woodward, and J. Schroder, “Parallel-in-Time Solution of Power Systems with Unscheduled Events,” proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM).
J. B. Schroder, M. Lecouvez, R. D. Falgout, C. S. Woodward, and P. Top, "Parallel-in-Time Solution of Power Systems with Scheduled Events," IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), pp. 1–5, IEEE, 2018.
Gardner, D. J., Guerra, J. E., Hamon, F. P., Reynolds, D. R., Ullrich, P. A., and Woodward, C. S., "Implicit–explicit (IMEX) Runge–Kutta methods for non-hydrostatic atmospheric models," Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 1497-1515, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-1497-2018, 2018.
Lecouvez, Matthieu, Robert D. Falgout, Carol S. Woodward, and Philip Top. "A parallel multigrid reduction in time method for power systems." In Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2016.
B. M. Kelley, P. Top, S. G. Smith, C. S. Woodward, and L. Min, “A Federated Simulation Toolkit for Electric Power Grid and Communication Network Co-simulation,” in refereed proceedings of 2015 Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (MSCPES), Seattle, WA, April 2015.
S. Smith, C. Woodward, L. Min, C. Jing, A. Del Rosso, “On-Line Transient Stability Analysis using High Performance Computing,” in Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 2014 IEEE PES, Feb. 2014. DOI: 10.1109/ISGT.2014.6816438.
J. M. Connors, J. W. Banks, J. A. F. Hittinger, C. S. Woodward, “Quantification of Errors for Operator-Split Advection-Diffusion Calculations,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 272, pp. 181-197, Apr., 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2014.01.005.
P. A. Lott, H. C. Elman, K. J. Evans, X. S. Li, A. G. Salinger, and C. S. Woodward, “Recent Progress in Nonlinear and Linear Solvers,” in Proc. SciDAC 2011, Denver, CO, July 10-14, 2011, http://press.mcs.anl.gov/scidac2011/.
C.S. Woodward and J.A.F. Hittinger, “Numerical Convergence Studies of Weapon Calculations,” Proceedings of the 2010 NECDC, Los Alamos, NM, Oct. 2010.
Walker, H.F., C.S. Woodward, and U.M. Yang, “An Accelerated Fixed-Point Iteration for Solution of Variably Saturated Flow,” in Proceedings of the XVIII International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR 2010), J. Carrera, X. Sanchez Villa, D. Fernandez Garcia, et al. eds., Int. Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 216-223, 2010.
Anderson, S., B. Bihari, K. Salari, and C. S. Woodward, “Code Verification Results of an LLNL ASC Code on Some Tri-Lab Verification Test Suite Problems,” proceedings of the NECDC 2006.
Shumaker, Dana E. and Carol S. Woodward, “Implicit Solution of Non-Equilibrium Radiation Diffusion Including Reactive Heating Source in Material Energy Equation,” in “Computational Methods in Transport,” F. Graziani, ed., Springer, Berlin, (2006), pp. 353-370.
Miller, D.S. and C.S. Woodward, “Exploring Nonlinear Couplings in Radiation Diffusion Problems,” Proceedings of the NECDC 2004.
Jones, J. E., P. S. Vassilevski, and C. S. Woodward, "Nonlinear Schwarz-FAS Methods for Unstructured Finite Element Problems," proc. of Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Cambridge, MA, June 17-20, 2003. Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics 2003, Vols 1 and 2, Proceedings, pp. 2008-2011, 2003.
Woodward, Carol S., Keith E. Grant, and Reed Maxwell, “Applications of Sensitivity Analysis to Uncertainty Quantification for Variably Saturated Flow,” in Computational Methods in Water Resources, S.M.Hassanizadeh, R.J. Schotting, W.G. Gray, and G.F. Pinder, eds., vol 1, Elservier, Amsterdam, (2002), 73-80.
Brown, P.N., Chang, B.; Hanebutte, U.R., Woodward, C. S., “The quest for a high performance Boltzmann transport solver,” in Applications of High-Performance Computing in Engineering VI. Sixth International Conference, Ingber, M.; Power, H.; Brebbia, C.A., eds., 2000, pp. 91-101.
Brown, P.N.; Chang, B.; Dorr, M.R., Hannebutte, U. R., and Woodward, C. S., “Performing three-dimensional neutral particle transport calculations on tera scale computers,” in Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Symposium - HPC'99. 1999 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference, Tentner, A. ed., 1999, pp. 76-81.
Brown, P.N., B. Chang, and F. Graziani and C.S. Woodward, “Implicit Solution of Large-Scale Radiation–Material Energy Transfer Problems,” in Proceedings of the Fourth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation, Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation II, International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulations, 1999.
Hornung, Richard D., and Carol S. Woodward, “An Object-Oriented Approach for Development and Testing of Parallel Solution Algorithms for Nonlinear PDEs,” Proc. of the SIAM Workshop on Object-Oriented Methods for Inter-Operable Scientific and Engineering Computing (SIAM, Philadelphia, PA), pp.90–98. Held in Yorktown Heights, NY, October 21–23, 1998.
Woodward, C.S., “A Newton-Krylov-Multigrid Solver for Variably Saturated Flow Problems,” Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, vol. 2, pp. 609-616, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, 1998.
K. J. Evans, R. K. Archibald, D. J. Gardner, M. R. Norman, M. A. Taylor, C. S. Woodward, and P. H. Worley, “Performance analysis of fully explicit and fully-implicit solvers within a spectral-element shallow-water atmosphere model,” International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, DOI: 10.1177/109434201773637
For a long version of Dr. Woodward's CV see here.