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George Vahala

Professor of Physics

Office: Small Hall 333
Email: gvahala@gmail.com
Phone: 757-221-3528

Research Interests

Current research interests are in turbulence (including turbulence closures using renormalization group methods) and the formulation of lattice Boltzmann techniques for the solution of nonlinear macroscopic systems

Background

BS University of Western Australia 1967; MS University of Iowa 1969; PhD University of Iowa, 1972

Refereed Paper Published

C. Flint, G. Vahala, L. Vahala, M. Soe, “Magnetic field stabilization of a two-dimensional jet: a multiple relaxation lattice Boltzmann simulation”, Rad. Effects Defects Solids, to be published, 2015

A. Oganesov, G. Vahala, L. Vahala, J. Yepez, M. Soe, B. Zhang, “Unitary quantum lattice gas algorithm generated from the Dirac collision operator for 1D soliton-soliton”,  Rad. Effects Defects Solids, to be published, 2015