This group consists of Professor Poulin, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. Group members have expertise in developing analytical models to describe aspects of the world and then using numerical software to simulate the solution to this model. These simulations can be thought of as experiments in silica and are used to determine the limits of the model, but also to make predictions as to what we should expect to observe in reality.
Areas of expertise of this group include:
- Physical Oceanography
- Biological Oceanography
- Solar Physics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
A focus is to study nonlinear processes in a fluid dynamics, important examples are jets and vortices. An active area of research is to further develop software to facilitate research in these areas. Look in the research tab to find out more about the research and software.
News
September, 2023
- Jakob Braga starts his Masters degree in Applied Mathematics.
- Rosalie Cormier starts her Masters degree in Applied Mathematics.
- Xiangyu Xu starts his Masters degree in Applied Mathematics (co-supervised with Sue Ann Campbell).
June, 2023
- Rosalie Cormier receives a CMOS Centre Graduate Scholarship.
May, 2023
- Rosalie Cormier starts her NSERC USRA research on the Beaufort Gyre.
- Sarah Moser starts their NSERC USRA research on the mathematics of music.
- Meixin Zhou starts her MURA researc on the Gulf Stream.
- Francis Poulin gives an invited lecture at the Fields-WICI Math for Complex Climate Challenges Workshop
April, 2023
- Francis Poulin presented a talk called The Stability of an Asymmetric Slice of the Gulf Stream at the EGU General Assymbly 2023.
- Francis Poulin with many others submitted a Letter of Intent for the NSERC CREATE grant.
March, 2023
- Francis Poulin attended The Changing Beaufort Gyre Workshop at WHOI.
February, 2023
- Francis Poulin gives a Physics 10 Seminar February 10th on The Physics of the Oceans.
January, 2023
- Matheus Azevedo starts his post-doctoral fellowship (co-supervised with Kevin Lamb). Partly funded by the Fields Institute.
September, 2022
- Jinghan Yu starts her Masters in Computational Mathematics
July, 2022
- Jonathan Tessier successfully defends his Masters in Mathematics thesis entitled “Jets, Vortices and Turbulence in Quasi-Geostrophic Magnetohydrodynamics”.
- Manuscript submitted to the Journal of Physical Oceanography by Kevlahan and Poulin accepted.
- Manuscript submitted to the Physics of Fluids by Harris, Poulin and Lamb accepted.
June, 2022
- Francis Poulin attends Whither the Gulf Stream Workshop
- Manuscript submitted to the Physics of Fluids by Harris, Poulin and Lamb.
- Jonathan Tessier and Francis Poulin presented talks at CMOS Congress 2022.
May, 2022
- Jonathan Tessier presented a talk at the EGU General Assembly 2022.
- Jonathan Befekadu – Starts NSERC USRA position for the spring semester.
- Jakob Braga – Starts NSERC USRA position for the spring semester.
- Indy Ng – Starts MURA position for the spring semester.
- Jonathan Tessier – Awarded NSERC CGS-D.
- Francis Poulin – IOP Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2021 for and European Journal of Physics, and Physical Biology.