University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Department of Astronomy

Michael L. Norman


Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 1980

norman@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Development and application of numerical techniques to model astrophysical fluid dynamical systems, with applications to interstellar medium dynamics, star formation, accretion disks, stellar explosions, and extragalactic radio sources. Technical interests include computational fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, radiation hydrodynamics, and plasma dynamics, as well as scientific visualization. 

Selected Publications:

ZEUS-2D: A Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics Code for Astrophysical Flows
in Two Space Dimensions: I. The Hydrodynamic Algorithms and Tests.
Stone, J.M. and Norman, M.L. Ap. J. Suppl., 80, 753, 1992.

ZEUS-2D: A Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics Code for Astrophysical Flows
in Two Space Dimensions: II. The Magnetohydrodynamic Algorithms and
Tests. Stone, J.M. and Norman, M.L. Ap. J. Suppl., 80, 791, 1992.

3D Hydrodynamic Simulation of Narrow-Angle-Tailed Radio Sources I. The
Begelman, Rees and Blandford Model. Balsara, D.S. and Norman, M.L. Ap.
J., 393, 631, 1992.

Numerical Simulations of Protostellar Jets with Nonequi- librium
Cooling. I: Method and Two Dimensional Results. Stone, J.M. and
Norman, M.L. Ap. J., 413, 198, 1993.