Kwak, Kyujin (곽규진)

Department

School of Natural Science(자연과학부)

Website

http://kkwak.unist.ac.kr/

Lab

Computational Astrophysics Lab. (전산천체물리학 연구실)

Research Keywords

전산천체물리학, 핵천체물리학, 천체화학, 천체플라즈마, 중력파 천문학, 중성미자 천문학, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Nuclear Astrophysics, Astro-Chemistry, Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasma, Hydrodynamics with Radiation, Machine Learning

Research Interests

Various reactions occur in the Universe. Nuclear reactions occur inside stars and on the surface of compact objects like white dwarfs and neutron stars. Ionization of atoms (and recombination of electrons) occur in any plasma state and even chemical reactions are important in cool and dense gas which will form stars eventually. We are interested in simulating these reactions in the relevant astrophysical environments. Our simulation results are compared with observations and give a hint on how we can understand what we see/observe.