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Mark R. Petersen

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Los Alamos National Laboratory


e-mail:
mpetersen (at) lanl (dot) gov

Affiliations:

Climate, Ocean, and Sea Ice Modeling
Center for Nonlinear Studies, Theoretical Division
Computer and Computational Science Division

Research Interests:

  • Investigations of geophysical and astrophysical flows using reduced equations and numerical models
  • quasi-geostrophic turbulence
  • planetary formation in protoplanetary disks
  • dynamics of mixing and entrainment in ocean overflows
  • LANS-alpha model to improve the resolution of grid-scale turbulence in ocean models
  • numerical methods for parallel climate models
  • education in science and engineering
  • underrepresented minorities and women in math, science, and engineering