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 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, Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, CalSpace-IGPP International Conference, Palm Springs, 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

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

Enzo public site
Enzo parameters
Enzo flowcharts
Enzo test suite (highlights)
Enzo test suite (developer's page)
Enzo performance
EnRAGE performance page
Enzo jungle
Enzo code browser
Enzo development group
Terascale application for cosmological hydrodynamics
Alliance community codes expedition

akritsuk@cosmos.ucsd.edu

Last modified: Mon Apr 3 12:44:03 PDT 2006