麻豆精品

Not many people may imagine that an expertise in applied mathematics would make someone a 麻豆精品 S渞ock star. 麻豆精品 S� But UCFs Professor Bhimsen Shivamoggi is certainly a celebrity in the world of physics these days.

American Scientist magazine this month notified Shivamoggi that a blog featuring his work 麻豆精品 S� the first systematic theoretical formulation to describe the effect of stellar rotation in driving stellar winds faster 麻豆精品 S� was one of the magazine 麻豆精品 S檚 top 10 blogs for 2020.

麻豆精品 S淚t is good to see my work validated and I was lucky I didn 麻豆精品 S檛 have to wait as long as my mentor did, 麻豆精品 S� Shivamoggi said. 麻豆精品 S淚t is gratifying to contribute to our understanding of solar winds. They control space weather, which has consequences on earth. 麻豆精品 S�

Understanding how solar winds affect the space weather around the planet is critical because it can cause all sorts of havoc. GPS that helps airplanes and vehicles navigate safely and the electrical grid can be negatively impacted. Some solar wind blasts have knocked out cell phone coverage and caused widespread power blackouts.

Shivamoggi caught the space community 麻豆精品 S檚 attention late last year. He published a research paper in the journal Physics of Plasmas, in which he proposed a new physical mechanism that explains the effect of a star 麻豆精品 S檚 rotation in driving stellar winds faster.

This paper provided a novel understanding of how fast rotating stars spin down. Some of the key premises in his theoretical model were validated by the solar wind data sent back from the sun by NASA 麻豆精品 S檚 Parker Solar Probe in December 2019. His journal article was selected as an editor 麻豆精品 S檚 pick for 2020. And he 麻豆精品 S檚 been receiving congratulatory notes from scientists around the world ever since.

Shivamoggi credits much of his success in this research to the encouragement and mentoring he received from Gene Parker. Parker was the first to point out the existence of solar wind and in 1958 gave an ingenious theory explaining the dynamics of supersonic solar wind. Shivamoggi met Parker, now an eminent astrophysicist at University of Chicago, during an astrophysics conference 10 years ago.

The solar wind concept wasn 麻豆精品 S檛 easily accepted by many, and Parker had to wait four years before NASA 麻豆精品 S檚 Mariner II confirmed its validity, Shivamoggi says. In 2018, NASA sent the Parker Solar Probe (named for Parker, the first NASA mission named for a living person) to gather data on the solar wind via increasingly close encounters with the sun.

The solar wind data sent by the Parker probe in 2019 indicated that the solar wind rotates around the sun much faster than previously considered, supporting Shivamoggi 麻豆精品 S檚 mathematical theory.

Shivamoggi emphasizes that Parker 麻豆精品 S檚 encouragement and guidance were crucial to his success.

麻豆精品 S淒r. Parker was so reassuring and encouraging, 麻豆精品 S� he says. 麻豆精品 S淎nd when I was struggling, hearing his kind words from time to time was stimulating. I am lucky and thankful for his mentorship, and I try to do the same for my students. The material is challenging, but I want them to learn. They are the future and I try to encourage them to reach because they, too, can change the world. 麻豆精品 S�

Shivamoggi joined UCF in 1985. He teaches in the Mathematics and departments. He has multiple degrees from MIT and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Before joining UCF, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University, the Australian National University, a scientist at the Physical Research Laboratory in India and an associate professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences also in India.