F. Douglas Swesty's home page

I'm a Visiting Assistant Professor (this semester) in the Department of Astronomy. In addition to teaching I am also conducting research in the fields of nuclear astrophysics and computational astrophysics. I am currently working on a number problems: the explosion mechanism of core collapse supernovae, the neutrino signature & gravitational wave signature of supernovae, general relativistic radiation hydrodynamics, and the equation of state of hot, dense matter.

Astronomy 304 Class Information

I am teaching Astronomy 304 (Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics) this semester. Here is a link to some relevant information about the course: AST304.

Here is some information on my current research:

Supernova Explosion Mechanism: How massive stars explode.
Methods for general relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamics.
Studies of Gravitational Radiation emitted during stellar collapse.
The Equation of State of hot, dense matter.

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Return Links:

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Back to the Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics home page.
Back to the Numerical Relativity group's home page.

Doug Swesty / dswesty@ncsa.uiuc.edu /

mail dswesty@ncsa.uiuc.edu