Philip S. Marcus - Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab

Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Philip S. Marcus
pmarcus@kepler.berkeley.edu

Professor of Fluid Mechanics

6121 Etcheverry Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740

Phone: (510) 642-5942
Fax: (510) 642-6163
Email: pmarcus@kepler.berkeley.edu

Philip Marcus received his B.S. in Physics from Caltech in 1973 and his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton in 1978. As part of his thesis work on thermal convection in Red Giant stars, he became interested in large-scale numerical simulation. His NSF-post-doctoral Fellowship at Cornell coincided with the Voyager satellite fly-by of Jupiter, and he became interested in the dynamics of the Great Red Spot and other features of the turbulent atmosphere. While he was an assistant professor from 1980-83 at MIT in Applied Math he concentrated on numerical simulation and in applying the theory of nonlinear dynamics to weakly turbulent flows. He became especially interested in vortex dynamics and their application to both planetary atmospheres and laboratory experiments as an associate professor of Astronomy and Applied Math at Harvard from 1983-1986. Currently he is Professor of Fluid Dynamics at UC Berkeley in the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he works on geophysical fluid dynamics, turbulent bursts, aircraft wake vortices and the formation of stars and planets.

Research Interests

Algorithms, Atmospheric Flows, Convection, Fluid Mechanics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Ocean Flows, Numerical Analysis, Turbulence.

Selected Publications

Marcus, P.S., "Prediction of a global climate change on Jupiter," Nature. 428 828-831. Article

Marcus, P.S. & Youssef, A. 2003, "The dynamics of jovian white ovals from formation to merger," Icarus. 162 74-94. Article

Sarid E., Teodorescue, C., Marcus, P. & Fajans, J. "Breaking the azimuthal symmetry-jumping off-axis or staying away from the axis?," Non-Neutral Plasma Physics IV, AIP 606, pp.432. Article

Marcus, P.S., Kundu, T., & Lee, C. 2000, "Vortex dynamics and zonal flows," Physics of Plasmas. Vol 7, Number 5 1630-1640. Article

Coughlin, K.& Marcus, P.S. 1996, "Turbulent bursts in Couette-Taylor flows'' PRL. 77 2214-2217.

Marcus, P.S. 1993, "Jupiter's great red spot and other vortices," Annual Review Astron. & Astrophys. 31 523-573.