NASA FINESST Graduate Fellowship
I am broadly interested in using a combination of numerical and analytic techniques to study fluid dynamics on big round rotating objects. I currently work with Brad Hindman studying inertial oscillations (waves where the restoring force is the Coriolis force) in the solar interior. While inertial oscillations are well-understood in quasi-2D thin fluid shells like the Earth’s atmosphere or oceans, such an approximation cannot be made in the solar interior, which presents a mathematical challenge. My work focuses on developing our understanding of these waves in a solar-like environment, with the eventual goal of using them as seismic probes of the deep interior.