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Jonathan Aurnou, Associate Professor of Planetology and Geophysics |
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Current Research Interests: |
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- Dynamics of planetary interiors
- Fluid Mechanics of convection systems
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Planetary magnetic field generation |
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Education: |
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| | Ph.D., 1999, Johns Hopkins University
M.A., 1996, Johns Hopkins University
B.S., 1993, State University of New York, Binghamton
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Selected Publications: |
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Aurnou, J. M., Planetary core dynamics and convective heat transfer scaling, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 101: 327-345, 2007.
Zuber, M. T., O. Aharonson, J. Aurnou, and 9 additional authors, The geophysics of Mercury: Current status and anticipated insights from the MESSENGER Mission, Space Science Reviews, doi 10.1007/s11214-007-9265-4, 2007.
Aurnou, J. M., M. H. Heimpel and, J. Wicht, The effects of vigorous mixing in a convective model of zonal flow on the Ice Giants, Icarus, 190: 110-126, 2007.
M. H. Heimpel and J. M. Aurnou, Turbulent convection in rapidly rotating spherical shells: A model for equatorial and high latitude jets on Jupiter and Saturn, Icarus, 187: 540 – 557, 2007.
Hauck, S. A., J. M. Aurnou and, A. J. Dombard, Sulfur’s impact on core evolution and magnetic field generation on Ganymede, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets), doi:10.1029/2005JE002557, 2006.
M. Heimpel, J. Aurnou, J. Wicht, Simulation of equatorial and high-latitude jets on Jupiter in a deep convection model, Nature, 438: 193-196, 2005.
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