Our Nonlinear Dynamics Laboratory is
dedicated to studying turbulence using both novel experiments and theory. Our focus is on how turubulence is modified by rotation, magnetic fields, and quantum effects. As turbulence occurs across nature (in planets, in stars, in galaxies and in theories of the vacuum), our work has extemely broad implications.
After significant new scientific results, the test phase with water is over. All sodium control systems are near ready, and the three meter sphere will be soon filled with liquid sodium with one goal in mind: trying to observe a self-sustained dynamo.
Nature News article "Dynamo maker ready to roll" about the 3m sodium experiment getting ready to run.
Dan Lathrop has been elected fellow of the AAAS.
Nick Ouellette, assistant professor at Yale is now visiting at Maryland.
Horizon documentary and article by the BBC on the Earth's Core featuring Dan Lathrop and the 3m experiment
Matthew
Adams
Graduate Student
Robby
Blum
Undergraduate
Enrico Fonda
Graduate Student
David
Meichle
Graduate Student
Hansen
Nordsiek
Graduate Student
Myunghwan
Park
Graduate Student
Cecilia
Rorai
Graduate Student
