Alexei Kritsuk

Title	Research Scientist
Office Location	UCSD/CASS, SERF 333A (3rd floor)
Phone	+1 (858) 534-2943
Mailing Address	University of California, San Diego Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences 9500 GILMAN DRIVE DEPT 0424 LA JOLLA CA 92093-0424

Current Research Projects

Inertial Particles in Turbulent Flows
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Turbulent Fragmentation and Star Formation in Molecular Clouds
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Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium
Project I | Project II
Nonlinear Thermal Instability in Three Dimensions
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Hydrodynamics of Galactic Cooling Flows
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Recent Talks

Supersonic turbulence, intermittency, and simulations with adaptive meshes
CMSO Magnetic Turbulence Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 20, 2005 [ PDF ]
Towards simulating turbulence with adaptive meshes
Journal Club, UCSD, La Jolla, May 5, 2004 [ PDF ]
Thermal instability and turbulence in the ISM
Interstellar Lunch, UCSD, La Jolla, December 5, 2003 [ PDF | PPT | PPT with movies ]
Thermal instability-induced interstellar turbulence
2nd IGPP AIAC, Palm Springs, February 9, 2003 [ PDF ]

Recent Publications

Turbulent Fragmentation and Hierarchical Formation of Protostellar Objects in Molecular Clouds
A. Kritsuk, P. Padoan, & M. Norman
2006, to be submitted to ApJL
Phase Transitions in Thermally Unstable Interstellar Gas
A. Kritsuk & M. Norman
2006, in preparation
Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Supersonic Molecular Cloud Turbulence
A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, & P. Padoan
astro-ph/0411626 | ApJL, 638, L25, 2006 | AAS205, BAAS 36, 5, 1575 (2004)
Brown Dwarfs from Turbulent Fragmentation
P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, & A. Nordlund
astro-ph/0411480 | Talk (PDF)
In "Low-mass stars and brown dwarfs: IMF, accretion and activity", Volterra, October 17 - 20, 2004, Mem. S.A.It., Vol. 76, pp. 187-192, 2005
A Solution to the Pre-Main-Sequence Accretion Problem
P. Padoan, A. Kritsuk, M. Norman, & A. Nordlund
astro-ph/0411129 | ApJL 622, L61, 2005
Introducing Enzo, an AMR Cosmology Application
B. O'Shea, G. Bryan, J. Bordner, M. Norman, T. Abel, R. Harkness, & A. Kritsuk
astro-ph/0403044 | in "Adaptive Mesh Refinement - Theory and Applications", T. Plewa, T. Linde & V. G. Weirs (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 41, pp. 341-350, Springer 2005.
Scaling Relations for Turbulence in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium
A. Kritsuk & M. Norman
astro-ph/0310697 | ApJL 601, L55, 2004 | PDF with color figures
Interstellar Phase Transitions Stimulated by Time-dependent Heating
A. Kritsuk & M. Norman
astro-ph/0206338 | ApJL 580, L51, 2002 | TASC02 meeting | Science magazine
Thermal Instability-induced Interstellar Turbulence
A. Kritsuk & M. Norman
astro-ph/0112437 | ApJL 569, L127, 2002
Convective Cores in Galactic Cooling Flows
A. Kritsuk, T. Plewa & E. Mueller
astro-ph/0008017 | MNRaS 326, 11, 2001 | Research highlight

Enzo Development Project

akritsuk@cosmos.ucsd.edu

Last modified: Tue Nov 23 13:28:21 PST 2004