Computational Modelling Group

Carsten Gundlach

Position
Professor
Institution
Mathematics (FSHS)
Webpage
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/
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I am in interested in classical general relativity and fluid mechanics (including MHD and elastic matter) in general relativity. I have worked extensively on hyperbolic formulations of the Einstein equations for numerical relativity, and on the physics of gravitational collapse.

Current research projects that have a modelling aspect are:

  • oscillations of strongly magnetised neutron stars (magnetars),

  • including elasticity into nonlinear HSRC GR hydro codes (see below)

  • numerical relativity applications in the adS-CFT correspondence (4-dimensional quantum field theory from 5-dimensional gravity).

Research Interests

Physical Systems and Engineering simulation: Astrophysics, CFD, Elasticity, General Relativity, Magnetohydrodynamics, Structural dynamics

Algorithms and computational methods: Finite differences, Multi-physics, Multipole methods, Symbolic calculation

Software Engineering Tools: CVS, Emacs, SVN

Programming languages and libraries: Fortran

Computational platforms: Iridis, Linux

Transdisciplinary tags: Scientific Computing

Carsten's team members

Stephanie Erickson
Postgraduate Research Student, Mathematics (FSHS)

Joint projects with...

Stephanie Erickson
Postgraduate Research Student, Mathematics (FSHS)
Ian Hawke
Lecturer, Mathematics (FSHS)

Research Groups

Institute for Complex Systems Simulations (ICSS)

University of Southampton

Projects

High-resolution shock-capturing (HRSC) methods for elastic matter in general relativity

With Ian Hawke, Stephanie Erickson (Investigators)