John F. Gibson J. Ford Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Nonlinear Science School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332 gibson@cns.physics.gatech.edu GPG public key skype:johnfgibson

home office: 47 Montgomery St. #1 Cambridge MA, 02140 617 441 3609

I am interested in turbulence and dynamical systems theory. My research is an effort to analyze turbulent dynamics in terms of numerically exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations: equilibria, traveling waves, and periodic orbits. I work, primarily, in the context of plane Couette flow above the onset of turbulence.

More: Movies of plane Couette flow and Database of exact solutions of plane Couette flow. See also My research, in plain words.


Channelflow

I am also interested in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and practical matters of scientific computing, such as developing flexible research software, and getting the most out of Linux boxes. I have focused these interests on the development of Channelflow, a set of high-level software tools and libraries for research in turbulence in channel geometries. Channelflow opens new ground in flexibility and ease-of-use in computational fluid dynamics. Give it a try!


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