Aims of the group
The main goal of our group is to study the dynamics of astrophysical
and geophysical flows, combining theoretical, numerical, experimental
and observational viewpoints. Our group covers a variety of areas of
interest, such as: hydrodynamic turbulence, rotating and stratified flows, generation of magnetic fields in astrophysics, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, magnetic reconnection and wave turbulence.
Our research is motivated by a number of applications such as: interplanetary flows, planetary magnetospheres, accretion flows, atmospheric and oceanic flows or flows in the Earth's core ( Click here for a more complete description
of our research interests).
History of the group
The history of the group dates back to
1984. From the very
beginning, the group played an active role in the formation of young
researchers in astrophysical flows, with one PhD thesis every two years
and almost one graduation thesis every year. The current head of the
group is Dr.
Daniel Gomez.
The group is composed by several researchers and graduate students,
whose activities are performed at the Department of Physics (Facultad
de Ciencias
Exactas y Naturales, UBA) and also at the Institute of Astronomy and Space Physics (IAFE)
(CONICET-UBA), located at Ciudad Universitaria
(Buenos Aires, Argentina). The researchers of the group regularly teach
graduate courses at the Department of
Physics, such as Fluid Turbulence,
Numerical Methods for PDEs, General Astrophysics or Magnetohydrodynamics.
