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  • 2017 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For theoretical and numerical contributions to understanding rotating thermal convection and its applications to geophysical and astrophysical phenomena

Overview

Keith Julien is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics within Engineering, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Physics and Astronomy, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to scientific inquiry.

The scientist's work extensively covers several subfields, including Computational Mechanics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, and Atmospheric Science. These areas support investigations into complex systems commonly found in natural phenomena and engineering contexts.

Major themes in their research encompass Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows.

Keith Julien has contributed to numerous publications. Their recent papers include:

  • Rotation suppresses giant-scale solar convection, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Morphological Classification of the Convective Regimes in Rotating Stars, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Experimental observation of the geostrophic turbulence regime of rapidly rotating convection, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The solar dynamo begins near the surface, 2024, Nature
  • Small scale quasigeostrophic convective turbulence at large Rayleigh number, 2023, Physical Review Fluids

The scientist commonly collaborates with colleagues such as Edgar Knobloch, Geoffrey M. Vasil, Adrian van Kan, Keaton J. Burns, and Ian Grooms, evident through multiple joint publications.

Keith Julien's findings have been frequently published in venues including arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Computational Physics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and The Astrophysical Journal.

In recognition of their contributions, Keith Julien was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2017. The citation highlighted their theoretical and numerical contributions to the understanding of rotating thermal convection and its applications in geophysical and astrophysical phenomena.

Best Publications

  • Rapidly rotating turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

    K. Julien;S. Legg;J. Mcwilliams;J. Werne

  • Statistical and physical balances in low Rossby number Rayleigh–Bénard convection

    K. Julien;A.M. Rubio;I. Grooms;E. Knobloch

  • Approaching the asymptotic regime of rapidly rotating convection: boundary layers versus interior dynamics.

    Stellmach S;Lischper M;Julien K;Vasil G

  • Numerical simulation of an asymptotically reduced system for rotationally constrained convection

    Michael Sprague;Keith Julien;Edgar Knobloch;Joseph Werne

  • Baroclinic Vorticity Production in Protoplanetary Disks; Part I: Vortex Formation

    Mark R. Petersen;Keith Julien;Glen R. Stewart

  • Heat transport in low-Rossby-number Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

    Keith Julien;Edgar Knobloch;Antonio M. Rubio;Geoffrey M. Vasil

  • Rotating convective turbulence in Earth and planetary cores

    J.M. Aurnou;M.A. Calkins;J.S. Cheng;K. Julien

  • A Multiscale Dynamo Model Driven by Quasi-geostrophic Convection

    Michael A. Calkins;Keith Julien;Steven M. Tobias;Jonathan M. Aurnou

  • Upscale energy transfer in three-dimensional rapidly rotating turbulent convection.

    Antonio M. Rubio;Keith Julien;Edgar Knobloch;Jeffrey B. Weiss

  • Baroclinic Vorticity Production in Protoplanetary Disks; Part II: Vortex Growth and Longevity

    Mark R. Petersen;Glen R. Stewart;Keith Julien

  • Baroclinic Vorticity Production in Protoplanetary Disks. I. Vortex Formation

    Mark R. Petersen;Keith Julien;Glen R. Stewart

  • Langmuir-Submesoscale Interactions: Descriptive Analysis of Multiscale Frontal Spindown Simulations

    Peter E. Hamlington;Luke P. Van Roekel;Baylor Fox-Kemper;Keith Julien

  • BAROCLINIC VORTICITY PRODUCTION IN PROTOPLANETARY DISKS. II. VORTEX GROWTH AND LONGEVITY

    Mark R. Petersen;Glen R. Stewart;Keith Julien

  • A New Class of Equations for Rotationally Constrained Flows

    Keith Julien;Edgar Knobloch;Joseph Werne

  • Model of convective Taylor columns in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

    Ian Grooms;Keith Julien;Jeffrey B. Weiss;Edgar Knobloch

  • Reduced models for fluid flows with strong constraints

    Keith Julien;Edgar Knobloch

  • Connections between nonrotating, slowly rotating, and rapidly rotating turbulent convection transport scalings

    Jonathan M. Aurnou;Susanne Horn;Keith Julien

  • Scaling Laws in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Meredith Plumley;Keith Julien

  • Generalized quasi-geostrophy for spatially anisotropic rotationally constrained flows

    Keith Julien;Edgar Knobloch;Ralph Milliff;Joseph Werne

  • Hard turbulence in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

    K. Julien;K. Julien;S. Legg;S. Legg;J. McWilliams;J. McWilliams;J. Werne

  • Strongly nonlinear convection cells in a rapidly rotating fluid layer: the tilted f-plane

    Keith Julien;Edgar Knobloch

  • Symmetric and Geostrophic Instabilities in the Wave-Forced Ocean Mixed Layer

    Sean Haney;Baylor Fox-Kemper;Keith Julien;Adrean Webb

  • Efficient multi-dimensional solution of PDEs using Chebyshev spectral methods

    Keith Julien;Mike Watson

  • A Model of Convective Taylor Columns in Rotating Rayleigh Benard Convection

    Ian Grooms;Keith Julien;Jeffrey Weiss;Edgar Knobloch

Frequent Co-Authors

Edgar Knobloch
Edgar Knobloch University of California, Berkeley
Steven M. Tobias
Steven M. Tobias University of Leeds
Sonya Legg
Sonya Legg Princeton University
James C. McWilliams
James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles
James D. Meiss
James D. Meiss University of Colorado Boulder
Baylor Fox-Kemper
Baylor Fox-Kemper Brown University
Panayotis G. Kevrekidis
Panayotis G. Kevrekidis University of Massachusetts Amherst
Harry L. Swinney
Harry L. Swinney The University of Texas at Austin
Michael I. Weinstein
Michael I. Weinstein Columbia University
Mark J. Ablowitz
Mark J. Ablowitz University of Colorado Boulder

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