Research Notes

Here I’ve collected notes on specific research projects that I dig into a little bit. This section is much more outdated than my current research; I keep it mostly as an archive.

Nonthermal Emission from the Plunging Region

Black Holes, General Relativity, Plasma Physics

PIC Simulations, Raytracing, Semi-Analytic Modeling

Imbalanced Turbulence

Turbulence, Particle Acceleration, Plasma Physics

PIC Simulations, MHD Theory

Luminous Body Embedded in an Accretion Disk

Black Holes, AGN Accretion Disks, Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers

Shearing Box Simulations, MHD

Non-helical Dynamo Mechanisms in an Accretion Disk

Accretion Disks, Magnetic Field Generation, Shear-current Effect

Shearing Box Simulations, MHD

MHD Closure for Pressure Anisotropy

Accretion Disks, Kinetic Physics, Firehose & Mirror Instabilities

Shearing Box Simulations, MHD, Kinetic Physics

Other Undergraduate Work

Black Holes, Cosmology, Radiation, Special Relativity

Analytic