Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

Amount

$465,608.00

Award Date

8/04/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

This research focuses on two frontiers of plasma physics where particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations can help elucidate underlying principles of energy transfer in plasmas: (1) Motivated by collisionless accretion disks, we will study whether a faster-than-C