Dr. Liang receives five-year $507,159 NSF CAREER award

May 31, 2016

Dr. Chunlei Liang has received a five-year, $507,159 NSF CAREER award for his project “CAREER: A Novel and Fast Open-Source Code for Global Simulation of Stratified Convection and Magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun.” The goal of this project is to create a unique capability for predicting density-stratified magnetohydrodynamics of the Sun. This research is expected to lay a foundation for developing methods for predicting extreme space weather, e.g. the event of a “super solar flare” followed by an extreme geomagnetic storm.