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

March, 2023

  • Francis Poulin attended The Changing Beaufort Gyre Workshop at WHOI.

February, 2023

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

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.