Numerical Simulation

• Lyman-α forest

  Collaborators:

  • Avery Meiksin, IfA

  • Martin White, UC Berkley

• Cluster Mergers, Cluster Oscillations, and Cold Fronts

  Collaborators:

  • Mark Henriksen, UMBC

  • Thomas Reiprich, UVa

• Filaments in the intercluster medium of the universe

  Collaborator: Mark Henriksen, UMBC

• The effect of hierarchical clustering on the state of galaxy clusters with a particular look at

  • The mass-temperature relation

  • The dark-matter density profile

  • The baryon distribution

  Collaborator: Hugh Couchman, McMaster University

• The behaviour of Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics in scenarios of cosmological interest

  • Drag on resolution-limitted structures

  • Super-cooling of hot gas in the presence of cold, dense structures

  Collaborators:

  • Hugh Couchman, McMaster University

  • Frazer Pearce, University of Nottingham

  • Rob Thacker, McMaster University

• The significance of resolving the Jeans mass in simulations of hierarchical clustering.

  Collaborator: Hugh Couchman, McMaster University

Observational X-ray astronomy

• Filaments in the intercluster medium of the universe

  Collaborator: Mark Henriksen, UMBC

• Cluster mergers

  Collaborator: Mark Henriksen, UMBC