Emeritus Faculty | Richard H. Durisen
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. Astronomy,
Princeton University 1972
Contact Information:
Astronomy Department
Indiana University
Swain West 309
727 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 855-6921
Fax: (812) 855-8725
Email: durisen [at] astro.indiana.edu
Biographical Information:
Professor Durisen joined the IU Astronomy faculty in 1976. He received a B.S. in Physics from Fordham University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Princeton University in 1972. He held postdoctoral fellowships at U.C. Santa Cruz and NASA-Ames Research Center. Professor Durisen has had extended research leaves at NASA-Ames Research Center as an NRC Research Associate and at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics as Fulbright Fellow and an Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Awardee.
Research Interests:
Simulations of fluid and particle system dynamics applied to star and planet formation, the structure and stability of astrophysical disks, and planetary ring systems.
Selected Publications:
- A 3D hydrodynamics study of gravitational instabilities in a young circumbinary disc
Desai, K. M., Steiman-Cameron, T. Y., Michael, S., Cai, K., Durisen, R. H. 2019, MNRAS, 483, 2347. - Gravitational instabilities in a protosolar-like disc - II. Continuum emission and mass estimates
Evans, M. G., Ilee, J. D., Hartquist, T. W., Caselli, P., Szucs, L., Purser, S. J. D., Boley, A. C., Durisen, R. H., Rawlings, J. M. C. 2017, MNRAS, 470, 1828. - Gravitational instabilities in a protosolar-like disc - I. Dynamics and chemistry
