Alexei Kritsuk

	Title	Research Scientist
	Office	UCSD/CASS/LCA, SERF building, room 333A (3rd floor)
	Phone	(858) 534-2943
	Address	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO ALEXEI KRITSUK, CASS 9500 GILMAN DR. # 0424 LA JOLLA CA 92093-0424

Current Research Projects

Inertial Particles in Turbulent Flows
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Turbulent Fragmentation and Star Formation in Molecular Clouds
Project workpage NEW!!! The First GByte from 2048^3 Ma=6 Simulation
Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium
Project I | Project II
Nonlinear Thermal Instability in Three Dimensions
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Hydrodynamics of Galactic Cooling Flows
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Recent Talks

Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence in Magnetized Molecular Clouds
Invited talk, ASTRONUM-2009: Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Chamonix, France, July 1, 2009 [ PDF ]
Simulating Supersonic Turbulence in Magnetized Molecular Clouds
Invited talk, SciDAC 2009 Conference (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, DOE Office of Science), San Diego, California, June 17, 2009 [ PDF ]
Supersonic Turbulence and Star Formation in Molecular Clouds
Invited talk, SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2009), Miami, Florida, March 2, 2009; Mini Symposium "Extreme-Scale Computational Astrophysics"
Supersonic Turbulence and Star Formation in Molecular Clouds
Invited talk, Workshop on Turbulence and Hydrodynamical Instabilities, Garching, Germany, November 17, 2008 [ PDF ]
Turbulence in Molecular Clouds
Invited talk, ASTROSIM Conference 2008 "Frontiers in Computational Astrophysics: The Origin of Stars, Planets and Galaxies", Ascona, Switzerland, July 17, 2008
Simulations of Supersonic Turbulence in Molecular Clouds
Invited talk, ASTRONUM-2008: Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, St. John, US Virgin Islands, June 10, 2008
Supersonic Hydrodynamic Turbulence
Invited talk, KITP Conference Star Formation Then and Now, UC Santa Barbara, August 14, 2007 [ PDF ]
The Statistics of Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
Invited talk, Turbulence and Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas, 6th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, March 21, 2007 [ PDF ]
Astrophysics Seminar, UCSD, La Jolla, January 31, 2007 [ PDF ]
High Resolution Simulations of Supersonic Turbulence in Molecular Clouds
Invited talk, ASTRONUM-2006: Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Palm Springs, California, March 27, 2006 [ PDF ]
Supersonic Turbulence, Intermittency, and Simulations with Adaptive Meshes
Invited talk, CMSO Magnetic Turbulence Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 20, 2005 [ PDF ]
Towards Simulating Turbulence with Adaptive Meshes
Journal Club, UCSD, La Jolla, May 5, 2004 [ PDF ]
Thermal Instability and Turbulence in the ISM
Interstellar Lunch, UCSD, La Jolla, December 5, 2003 [ PDF | PPT | PPT with movies ]
Thermal Instability-induced Interstellar Turbulence
Invited talk, 2nd IGPP AIAC, Palm Springs, February 9, 2003 [ PDF ]

Recent Publications

[Publication List from NASA ADS]

Self-organization in Turbulent Molecular Clouds: Compressional versus Solenoidal Modes
A. Kritsuk, S. Ustyugov, M. Norman, & P. Padoan
arXiv:0912.0546 | ASP Conf. Series, in press, 2010 | PDF
Simulating Supersonic Turbulence in Magnetized Molecular Clouds
A. G. Kritsuk, S. D. Ustyugov, M. L. Norman, & P. Padoan
arXiv:0908.0378 | Journal of Physics: Conf. Ser., 180, 012020, 2009
Piecewise Parabolic Method on a Local Stencil for Magnetized Supersonic Turbulence Simulation
S. D. Ustyugov, M. V. Popov, A. G. Kritsuk, & M. L. Norman
arXiv:0905.2960 | J. Comp. Phys., 228, 7614-7633, 2009 | PDF
Simulations of Supersonic Turbulence in Molecular Clouds: Evidence for a New Universality
A. Kritsuk, S. Ustyugov, M. Norman, & P. Padoan
arXiv:0902.3222 | ASP Conf. Series, 406, 15-22, 2009 | PDF | Projects in Scientific Computing (PSC) | TeraGrid Science Highlight 2008
Dissipative Structures in Supersonic Turbulence
L. Pan, P. Padoan, & A. Kritsuk
arXiv:0808.1330 | Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 034501-1-4, 2009
Scaling Laws and Intermittency in Highly Compressible Turbulence
A. Kritsuk, P. Padoan, R. Wagner, & M. Norman
arXiv:0706.0739 | AIP Conference Proceedings, 932, 393-399, 2007
The Statistics of Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, P. Padoan, & R. Wagner
arXiv:0704.3851 | ApJ 665, 416, 2007 | PDF, PS with high-resolution figures | SDSC Nugget
High Resolution Simulations of Supersonic Turbulence in Molecular Clouds
A. Kritsuk, R. Wagner, M. Norman, & P. Padoan
astro-ph/0607634 | ASP Conf. Series, 359, 84-90, 2006
Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Supersonic Molecular Cloud Turbulence
A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, & P. Padoan
astro-ph/0411626 | ApJL 638, L25, 2006 | AAS205, BAAS 36, 5, 1575 (2004) | SDSC Headline
Brown Dwarfs from Turbulent Fragmentation
P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, & A. Nordlund
astro-ph/0411480 | Talk (PDF)
In "Low-mass stars and brown dwarfs: IMF, accretion and activity", Volterra, October 17 - 20, 2004, Mem. S.A.It., Vol. 76, pp. 187-192, 2005
A Solution to the Pre-Main-Sequence Accretion Problem
P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, & A. Nordlund
astro-ph/0411129 | ApJL 622, L61, 2005
Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application
B. O'Shea, G. Bryan, J. Bordner, M. Norman, T. Abel, R. Harkness, & A. Kritsuk
astro-ph/0403044 | in "Adaptive Mesh Refinement - Theory and Applications", T. Plewa, T. Linde & V. G. Weirs (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 41, pp. 341-350, Springer 2005.
Scaling Relations for Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium
A. Kritsuk & M. Norman
astro-ph/0310697 | ApJL 601, L55, 2004 | PDF with color figures
Interstellar Phase Transitions Stimulated by Time-dependent Heating
A. Kritsuk & M. Norman
astro-ph/0206338 | ApJL 580, L51, 2002 | TASC02 meeting | Science magazine
Thermal Instability-induced Interstellar Turbulence
A. Kritsuk & M. Norman
astro-ph/0112437 | ApJL 569, L127, 2002
Convective Cores in Galactic Cooling Flows
A. Kritsuk, T. Plewa & E. Mueller
astro-ph/0008017 | MNRaS 326, 11, 2001 | Research highlight

Enzo Development Project

akritsuk@ucsd.edu

Last modified: Wed Feb 18 14:43:02 PST 2009