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Research Group: Stratified, Rotating Fluid Flow
Mark Petersen, Neil Martinsen-Burrell
Jeff Weiss, Keith Julien, Michael Sprague

Collaborators

  • Joe Werne
    Colorado Research Associates
    Research Interests: High Rayleigh-number convection, penetrative convection, rotating convection; transport processes and coherent structures in fluid turbulence; instability processes in geophysical and astrophysical flows; stratified shear turbulence, gravity-wave breaking; stratified shear magnetohydrodynamic instability and turbulence; accurate spectral numerical methods, large-scale and high-performance computing, massively parallel computing (Cray T3E, XT3, XT4; IBM SP; SGI Origin 2000, ALTIX).

     Michael A. Sprague
    University of California at Merced, School of Natural Sciences, Program in Applied Mathematics.
    Research Interests: Numerical simulation of geophysical flows. Michael is using a parallel Chebyshev- Petrov-Galerkin program to solve a reduced set of non-hydrostatic quasi-geostrophic equations for rapidly rotating convection, which is applicable to ocean deep convection. As a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, Michael developed a coupled spectral-element/finite-element program for near-free-surface ship-shock simulation that incorporates nonlinear cavitation effects and field separation.

     Edgar Knobloch
    University of California at Berkeley Department of Physics
    Research Interests: nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems; bifurcation theory, particularly in systems with symmetry; transition to chaos; low-dimensional behavior of continuous systems; turbulent transport and theory of turbulence; nonlinear waves.

     Jeff Weiss
    University of Colorado, Boulder Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
    Research Interests: Dr. Weiss' research is focused on theoretical problems in geophysical fluid dynamics, with particular emphasis on nonlinear phenomena and the role of coherent structures

  • Glen Stewart
    University of Colorado, Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
    Research Interests: Origin and evolution of the solar system, with an emphasis on modeling the solid-body accretion of the terrestrial planets and the solid cores of the giant planets. Accretion of the Moon after a giant impact on the Earth. Modeling of satellite wakes and spiral density waves in planetary rings. Nonlinear dynamics of the three-body problem as applied to problems in solar system dynamics.