University of Rochester, Computational Astrophysics Group

Principal Investigator

​Adam Frank, Professor of Physics and Astronomy.

Group Web Page

AstroBEAR webpage: ​http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~bearclaw/

Meeting webpages: MeetingPage

Post-Doctoral Researchers

​Martin Huarte Espinosa is studying the MHD evolution and interaction of proto-planetary nebulae.

Graduate Students

​Jonathan Carroll is studying molecular cloud turbulence and high-level numerical methods development.

​Shule Li is studying thermal diffusion in the multi-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability problem.

​Erica Kaminski is studying MHD clumps as well as working on the documentation, testing and debugging of AstroBEAR.

Undergraduate Students

​Brandon Shroyer is working on MHD clump physics, revamping AstroBEAR's development process, software parallelization, elliptic solvers in AMR, standardized AMR file I/O, and visualization subroutines.

Former Post-docs

​Timothy Dennis has studied proto-planetary nebular morphology, the temporal evolution of post-AGB winds, and the morphology of HH jets.

Former Grads

​Andrew Cunningham (LLNL) has studied turbulent jets, molecular fossil cavities, and MHD AMR numerical algorithms in two and three dimensions.

​Kristopher Yirak (LANL) has studied heterogeneity in stellar jets, the effect of jets on self-gravitationally-bound systems, the single- and multi-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability, and other laboratory astrophysics.

​Michael Laski has studied MHD clump physics.

​Lan Gao has studied the ablation-supported Rayleigh-Taylor instability.

Former Undergrads

​Matthew Noyes assisted in the parallelization of AstroBEAR's simulation algorithms, as well as performing testing, debugging, and documentation of the software. Matt also helped to greatly improve the astrobear wiki.

​Edward Schroeder assisted Kristopher Yirak in his exploration of the parameter space of Herbig-Haro Objects.

​Sean Tanny (​Rice University) is continuing work on the AstroBEAR project at Rice University under Professor Pat Hartigan.

REU Students

2009: ​Ed Schroeder did further work related to the clumped jet research being undertaken primarily by Kristopher Yirak.

2008: ​Chaz Ruggieri did work related to the clumped jet research being undertaken primarily by Kristopher Yirak.