Professor, Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics
The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Sede Boker Campus, Israel, 84990
Tel.: 972-8-659-6847
Fax : 972-8-659-6921

 
Major areas of research

  Fluid Dynamics and Heat and Mass Transfer
 

• Laminar boundary layers and jets
• Hydrodynamic stability
• Free thermal convection and convective stability
• Symmetry-based methods in fluid dynamics
• Gas dynamics
• Non-Newtonian fluid flows
• Two-phase flows


  Applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations

  Dynamic Meteorology
 

• Meteorological fronts and frontogenesis
• Air mass motion in mountain terrains
• Precipitation recycling models
Selected  Publications
 

Courses Taught

                    Current Activities

                  Applcation of Lie groups in the context of asymptotic integrability

                  Precipitation recycling models (MATLAB code for precipitation recycling calculations)

                  Separability of the nonparallel and unsteady flow stability problems
                  (with A. Zhalij, Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)

                  An interplay between two small parameters for the unidirectional shallow water waves
                  (with A. Sergyeyev, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic)

                        (with R. Gerber, Sede-Boker Campus, January 4, 2003)