Tidal dissipation in compact white dwarf binaries and exoplanetary systems

该项目将资助一名博士后和一名研究生。他致力于开发处理双星系统中潮汐耗散的代码，重点是包含热木星的系外行星系统。研究人员计划从头计算潮汐耗散率作为轨道周期、质量和自旋的函数。这项工作的结果将适用于天体物理学、行星科学和流体动力学。除了在评审期刊上发表论文外，PI还将向公众提供数值结果，并培养研究生和博士后研究员，并开展？数学/科学天?在当地的一所中学。

This project will support a postdoctoral scholar and graduate student?s efforts to develop code dealing with tidal dissipation in binary systems, with a focus on exoplanetary systems containing hot Jupiters. The investigators plan to do ab initio calculations of the tidal dissipation rate as a function of orbital period, mass and spin. Results of this work will be applicable to astrophysics, planetary science and fluid dynamics. In addition to publishing in refereed journals, the PI will make numerical results publicly available, and train a grad student and postdoctoral researcher, and carry out ?Math/Science Days? at a local middle school.