Assistant Research Scientist (Fielding)

Description

The Assistant Research Scientist will work on understanding the structure of interfaces that arise in turbulent flows, with applications to turbulent radiative mixing layers in and around galaxies, turbulent combustion, and terrestrial clouds. The project will combine mathematical theory, physical modeling, and numerical experimentation to study how the roughness of a turbulent velocity field, as encoded by its power spectrum, determines the roughness and fractal dimension of scalar iso-contours and front-like interfaces.

The position will involve working with mathematicians and physicists to extend current theories of surface-localized source terms in the scalar advection-diffusion equation to physical systems in which volumetric source terms in the energy equation naturally generate propagating fronts. The researcher will help design and run numerical experiments using the state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics code Athena-K, analyze the resulting interface geometry, and connect the numerical results to analytic and mathematical models.

Candidates should have strong quantitative skills, fluency with mathematical reasoning and proofs, and experience or interest in computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, numerical simulations, and/or astrophysical fluid dynamics.

In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $35/hr. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) the specific grant funding and the terms of the research grant when extending an offer.

This position is based in New York and the selected candidate will be expected to work onsite as of their effective start date.

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