Biographical Information

Gerald I. Kerley

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Curriculum Vitae

Address                       Kerley Technical Services                                            

                                       P.O. Box 709, Appomattox, VA 24522-0709

                                       contact@kerleytechnical.com

Specialties                  Chemistry/Physics/Engineering

                                       Quantum mechanics/statistical mechanics/thermodynamics

                                       Equation of state theories—solids/liquids/gases/plasmas

                                       Ionization equilibrium/chemical equilibrium/phase transitions

                                       Shock waves/detonations/explosive initiation/reactive flow

                                       Hydrodynamic code development and analysis

Education                   Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

                                       B.S., Chemistry, February 1963

                                       Summa Cum Laude/Honors in Chemistry/Phi Beta Kappa

                                       NSF Undergraduate Fellow/Distinguished Military Graduate

                                       Thesis research: Structure of the alkaloid Cephalotaxine

                                       University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

                                       Ph.D., Chemical Physics, September 1966

                                       NSF Fellow/Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow

                                       Thesis research: rotation and vibration of matrix-isolated molecules

Experience

        Mar 67-Feb 69          U.S. Army officer (Chemical Corps)

                                       Defense Atomic Support Agency, Washington, D.C.

                                       Technical monitor on contracts, nuclear radiation effects and testing

        Mar 69-Feb 84          Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

                                       supporting research for weapons, reactor safety, energy programs

                                       equations of state (EOS) for deuterium, plutonium, other materials

                                       first version of EOS code, PANDA

                                       design and supervision of SESAME EOS database

        Feb 84-Sep 95         Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

                                       Improvements to PANDA code, many new EOS tables

                                       Development of EOS package for CTH hydrocode

                                       HVRB model of explosive initiation and detonation

                                       hydrocode studies—high velocity impacts/penetration/explosions

                                       U.S. Department of Energy Award for Excellence, 1991

                                       Sandia Awards for Excellence, January 1991 and May 1992

        Sep 95-Dec 05         Kerley Technical Services (formerly Kerley Publishing Services)

                                       Scientific and technical consulting

                                       Short courses on EOS modeling for hydrocode calculations

        Jan 06-present         Scientific research on problems of personal interest 

Other                            Wrote over 100 scientific publications, one patent disclosure

                                       Translated 17 Russian scientific papers into English

                                       Listed in “American Men and Women of Science” since 1976