ChrisMalone

• Our XRB paper has been accepted to ApJ. The submitted version can be found on arXiv.
• We've recently submitted a paper to the Astrophysical Journal regarding our 2-d simulations of the thermonuclear burning and subsequent convection that precedes an outburst of a pure helium-4 accreting neutron star. More details can be found here.
• I, along with collaborators Alan Calder, Brendan Krueger and Mike Zingale, recently were awarded 1 million CPU-hours on the TeraGrid's Kraken machine to study both novae and mixed hydrogen/helium Type I X-ray bursts.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Cruz working with Stan Woosley on computational simulations of various astrophysical explosions. Lately, I have been performing both multidimensional low Mach number simulations of thermonuclear-driven convection in the context of Type I x-ray bursts, as well as multidimensional fully compressible hydrodynamics simulations of reactive bubbles and detonations in Type Ia supernovae.

I was a graduate student at Stony Brook working with Mike Zingale on low Mach number hydrodynamics in astrophysical fluids. In particular, I investigatied multidimensional simulations of Type I X-ray bursts and the convective mixing that can occur near the base of the accreted layer.

My CV can be found here as a PS or PDF file.

A list of my recent publications can be found here

• Multidimensional low Mach number modelling of the convection that leads up to onset of thermonuclear runaway on the surface of neutron stars using the MAESTRO code.
• Using a compressible hydro code, FLASH, to simulate the above mentioned convection and compare the results to the low Mach code at early times.