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====== John F. Gibson ======


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      Assistant Professor<br>
      Mathematics and Statistics<br>
      University of New Hampshire, Durham NH 03284<br> 
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      <a href="mailto:john.gibson@unh.edu" class="text">john.gibson@unh.edu</a> <br>
      Kingsbury Hall N309E<br>
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====== Research ======

I am interested in turbulence and dynamical systems theory. The hope
that dynamical systems theory could shed light on turbulence goes back
some sixty years to Hopf. But it has proven difficult to translate Hopf's
insights into concrete results, due to the very high (in principle infinite) 
dimensionality of the Navier-Stokes equations.


However, there have been some very exciting developments in recent
years, triggered by advances in numerical methods and computer power,
and by insightful research in the physics of wall-bounded flows. It is
now possible to treat direct numerical simulations of Navier-Stokes
directly as high-dimensional dynamical systems, for example, to find
their equilibria and compute their linear stability.


My own 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. My current work focuses on plane 
Couette flow above the onset of turbulence, in preparation for applying 
the same ideas to dynamics of the turbulent boundary layer. 

See also
     * [[gibson:research|My research, in plain words]]
     * [[:movies|Movies of plane Couette flow]]
     * [[database|Database of exact solutions]]
     * [[http://www.chaosbook.org/tutorials|Chaosbook.org tutorial]]
     * [[gibson:publications|Publications]]



====== 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. [[start|Give it a try!]]
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