CAREER: Computational Physics for Research and Industry

主要研究者（PI）打算运用他在计算流体动力学，空间科学和等离子体物理学方面的专业知识，构建计算物理学的综合教学和研究计划。该项目将通过在亨茨维尔亚拉巴马大学物理系内开发一种独特的教育资源，在亨茨维尔大学空间等离子体和空气动力学研究中心的支持下，解决亨茨维尔地区对有经验的技术劳动力的需求。 PI的团队包括UAH物理和CSPAR最近聘请的13名新教师和研究人员，他们都密切参与计算科学研究。PI计划在计算物理中创建一个新的轨道，作为UAH物理系硕士学位课程的一部分。该课程将通过提供数字和超级计算机技术的高级培训为未来的学生和当地工业服务。 该项目的研究部分将包括开发一个太阳系的全面计算机模型，从地球到其外缘，再到周围的星际云。该模型将解决带电粒子加速、拾取离子和中性原子、行星际湍流物理学、宇宙射线传输以及太阳风与星际介质相互作用等科学问题。此外，PI还将开发新的超级计算技术，包括基于图形处理器的计算，使用UAH现有的400核计算集群，以及未来预计将提供的更大的超级计算机资源。

The principal investigator (PI) intends to apply his expertise in computational fluid dynamics, space science, and plasma physics, to construct an integrated teaching and research program in computational physics. This project will address the needs of the Huntsville area for an experienced technical workforce by developing a unique educational resource within the Department of Physics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), with support from the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR). The PI's team includes thirteen new faculty members and researchers recently hired by UAH Physics and CSPAR, all of whom are closely involved in computational science research.The PI plans to create a new track in Computational Physics as part of the UAH Master's degree program in the Department of Physics. This curriculum will serve both prospective students and local industry by providing advance training in numerical and supercomputer techniques. The project's research component will include the development of a comprehensive computer model of the Solar System, from Earth to its outer edge and into the surrounding interstellar cloud. This model will address science problems in charged particle acceleration, pickup ions and neutral atoms, the physics of interplanetary turbulence, the transport of cosmic rays, and solar wind interaction with the interstellar medium. In addition, the PI will develop new supercomputing technologies, including graphic processor-based computing, using UAH's existing 400-core computing cluster, and eventually larger supercomputer resources expected to be available in the future.