THE ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID DYNAMICS GROUP

Our group is moving to the University of Chicago. We have a number of PhD/postdoc positions for Spring/Fall 2024 to work at the intersection of extreme weather, scientific machine learning, climate change, and computational physics... We study extreme weather, climate change, and geophysical turbulence through the lens of multi-scale nonlinear dynamics. We aim to integrate tools and concepts from fluid dynamics, applied math, scientific ML, and computational physics to gain a deeper theoretical understanding of these phenomena and develop better computational tools to predict them. Examples of problems of interest are blocking events, heat waves and hurricanes, subgrid-scale modeling of geophysical turbulence and gravity waves, annular modes, and explainable physics-informed ML. Our research has been supported by NSF, ONR, NASA, Schmidt Futures (VESRI), National Academy of Sciences, C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, Accenture, Microsoft AI, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, Rice..