Russell Strickland
russell@oddjob.uchicago.edu
Russell started a research project on radiative shocks as a
student in NCSU's Research Experiences for Undergraduates
program during the summer of 1993. He continued his
research through an independent research course during his
senior year, culminating in a recent
research pages, involved one and two dimensional hydrodynamic
simulations of radiative shocks. His work is the first to explore
the nonlinear effects in 2D of the well known overstability of radiative
shocks. Using the Cray Y-MP at NCSC, Russell showed that the
density discontinuity at the back of a radiative shock is dynamically
unstable even in cases where 1D radiative shocks are stable.
Russell has presented his research
at the 183rd meeting of the American Astronomical
Society in Washington DC, at the SPS section of the SouthEastern Section
of the American Physical Society meeting, and at the
NCSU Undergraduate Research Symposium in the spring of 1994. His research
won him two awards of recognition for undergraduate research from Sigma Xi.
Russell entered the graduate program in Astronomy and
Astrophysics at the University of Chicago
in the fall of 1994.
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