Marcus DuPont

My main area of study is astrophysical transients. More specifically, I explore gas dynamics of cataclysmic explosions such as supernovae (SNe), gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), X-ray flashes (XRFs), and Fast Blue Optical Transients (FBOTs). I study these by means of a two-dimensional special relativistic hydro code entitled SIMBI that I wrote to compile on CPUs as well as NVidia and AMD GPUs. I want to use this code to intensively study the conditions predating stellar death which involve components like strong shock waves, ultra-relativistic speeds, and magnetic fields. Ultimately, I am interested in proposing self-consistent models that constrain the main ingredients to these catastrophic events.