Extracting Waves and Vortices from One-dimensional Ship Track Measurements
Abstract
A wide variety of sponsored research activities take place at the Courant Institute. These range from the theoretical to the pragmatic, and include a broad spectrum of interactions with such disciplines as physics, biology, medicine, neural science, chemistry, linguistics, and the arts. Areas of research strength include numerical methods, partial differential equations, probability, geometry, fluid dynamics, mathematical finance, mathematical biology, machine learning, atmosphere-ocean systems, theory of computing, verification and programming languages, natural language understanding, and multimedia. The facilities of the Courant Institute are found in two locations on NYU s Washington Square campus. Warren Weaver Hall is a 13-story classroom and office building especially constructed for the Courant Institute. It houses the academic offices of the Mathematics and Computer Science Departments, and the Courant Library. Also housed in Warren Weaver Hall is the Applied Mathematics Laboratory, where physical experiments in fluid mechanics and allied fields are conducted. It is one of very few such facilities available for applied mathematicians. There are also three floors of renovated laboratory and office space at the nearby ‘Broadway Building.’ The Courant Library has holdings of over 62,000 volumes, and current subscriptions to more than 220 hardcopy journals and 55 electronic journals. It provides access to such databases as MathSciNet, Web of Science (science citation index), and ACM Digital Library. The Courant Institute runs a network of several hundred desktop workstations and high performance computational servers, and state-of-the-art visualization facilities, all supported by a central file server infrastructure. The Courant Institute also has access to the computational and instructional resources offered by NYU s central Information Technology Services department, which include several scientific computing clusters that facilitate research efforts throughout the university. The Courant Institute s Applied Mathematics Laboratory is a research and teaching laboratory operated entirely within the Mathematics Department at NYU. The physical laboratory occupies three rooms on the ground floor of the Institute (Warren Weaver Hall). The equipment in the Applied Mathematics Laboratory supports a variety of experiments, primarily in fluid dynamics, both for research and teaching. This equipment includes a soap-film “flow-tunnel,” a laser doppler velocimetry system, water tunnels, an AC-current air tunnel (oscillatory flow), water tanks and high-torque motors for fluidbody experiments, high-speed videography (up to 5000 frames/sec), and a micro-fluidics station, with video microscopy set-up, multi-stage syringe pump, a curing oven and 2 vacuum chamber for soft-lithography fabrication. Other soft-lithography needs are at least partially met with equipment in the NYU Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics. The 12th floor of the Broadway Building (715-719 Broadway) houses a state-of-the-art technology development center for research groups in the fields of Multi-Media, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Robotics. It is a fully reconfigurable space that allows for quick setup and breakdown of camera, projection, motion capture, computer, and sound systems. A professional quality video and sound lab allows us to do in-house production.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 12, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141512355
Entities
People
- Oliver Bühler
Organizations
- New York University
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy