Welcome
Prof. Dr. Hubert Klahr
Research Themes:
COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS APPLIED TO THE FORMATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND EXOPLANETS
My interest in research is focused on the formation of stars and planets. The main tools in such investigations are multidimensional self-gravitating magneto hydro dynamical simulations of turbulent gas and embedded particles on massive parallel computers. Questions we seek to answer are:
•How did our solar system form and the earth come to life?
•How did the most massive and the smallest stars form?
•What is the nature and role of turbulence in the formation on planets?
•What is the initial mass function of planets?
•At what distance to the star and with what masses are they typically born?
•How many stars do harbor earth sized planets at a distance to allow for the evolution of life?
For Questions
Contact: klahr at mpia.de
phone: 06221 528 255
Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie
Königstuhl 17
D 69117 Heidelberg
Germany
Head of the Theory Group in the PSF Department of the Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie & außerplanmäßiger Professor at the University of Heidelberg
Keywords: Astronomy Astrophysics Theoretical Physics Numerics Fluid dynamics Supercomputing Magneto Hydro
NEWS: Ringberg Workshop on Turbulence and Structure Formation in Protoplanetary Disks 2019: Observation, Theory and Experiment 2019: July 8th-12th