Edward A. Spiegel

Department of Astronomy, Columbia University
1328 Pupin Physics Lab, MC 5246
550 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
phone: 1-212-854-6810
fax: 1-212-854-8121



Astrofluiddynamics and Astromathematics
Vortices in a Keplerian flow
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A model of a cosmic fractal
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A strange attractor from a model of oscillatory convection
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Nonlinear solitary waves from oscillatory convection at large aspect ratio
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Saddle-loop bifurcation in a third order nonlinear system of ODEs
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Localized oscillations arising in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with quintic terms
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Disk Instability
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A bubbling bed of glass beads
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Movies
Patterns in bioconvection
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A reconstructed attractor for the solar cycle
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A cave painting of the Solar tachocline
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Large scale convection
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Movies of Fluid Phenomena
A beaker full of small glass beads is made to behave like a fluid when air is blown into a tube at their base A train of bubbles rising in water forms a vortex in a rotating reference frame
Current Research Subjects



Selected Publications



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