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Snezhana I. Abarzhi
Education
Known forResearch in fluid instabilities, interfaces, mixing and non-equilibrium dynamics
Scientific career
Fields
  • Applied mathematics
  • Mathematical physics
Institutions

Snezhana I. Abarzhi (also known as Snejana I. Abarji)[1] is an applied mathematician and theoretical physicist specializing in the dynamics of fluids and plasmas and their applications in nature and technology. Her research has revealed that instabilities elucidate dynamics of supernova blasts, and that supernovae explode more slowly and less turbulently than previously thought, changing the understanding of the mechanisms by which heavy atomic nuclei are formed in these explosions. Her works have found the mechanism of interface stabilization, the special self-similar class in interfacial mixing, and the fundamentals of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.[2][3][4][1]

Education and career

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Abarzhi earned bachelor's degrees in physics and applied mathematics and in molecular biology in 1987 from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and earned a master's degree in physics and applied mathematics there, summa cum laude, in 1990. She completed her doctorate in 1994 through the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics and Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, supervised by Sergei I. Anisimov.[5]

Abarzhi held a position as a researcher for the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1994 to 1997 (on leave in 1997-2004). She came to the US in 1997 as a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then in 1998 became an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. In 1999 she took a research position at Stony Brook University. In 2002 she briefly moved to a research professorship at Osaka University before returning to the US as a senior fellow in the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University. In 2005 she became a research faculty member at the University of Chicago and in 2006 she added a regular-rank faculty position as an associate professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology.[5] She also worked at Carnegie Mellon University from 2013 to 2016 before moving to the University of Western Australia as professor and chair of applied mathematics.[2][6]

Abarzhi is a member of the Committee on Scientific Publications of the American Physical Society, and an organizer of conferences and programs on non-equilibrium dynamics of interfaces and turbulent mixing and beyond.[7][8][9]

In 2020 Abarzhi was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for deep and abiding work on the Rayleigh-Taylor and related instabilities, and for sustained leadership in that community".[10][11]

Selected publications

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  • Abarzhi, Snezhana I.; Bhowmick, Aklant K.; Naveh, Annie; Pandian, Arun; Swisher, Nora C.; Stellingwerf, Robert F.; Arnett, W. David (November 2018), "Supernova, nuclear synthesis, fluid instabilities, and interfacial mixing", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (37): 18184–18192, doi:10.1073/pnas.1714502115, PMC 6744890, PMID 30478062
  • Abarzhi, Snezhana I.; Ilyin, Daniil V.; Goddard, William A.; Anisimov, Sergei I. (August 2018), "Interface dynamics: Mechanisms of stabilization and destabilization and structure of flow fields", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (37): 18218–18226, Bibcode:2019PNAS..11618218A, doi:10.1073/pnas.1714500115, PMC 6744915, PMID 30082395
  • Abarzhi, Snezhana I. (April 2010), "Review of theoretical modelling approaches of Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities and turbulent mixing", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 368 (1916): 1809–1828, Bibcode:2010RSPTA.368.1809A, doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0020, PMID 20211884, S2CID 38628393
  • Abarzhi, Snezhana I. (July 1998), "Stable steady flows in Rayleigh–Taylor instability", Physical Review Letters, 81 (2): 337–340, Bibcode:1998PhRvL..81..337A, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.81.337
  • Abarzhi SI, Hill DL, Williams KC, Li JT, Remington BA, Arnett WD 2023 Fluid dynamics mathematical aspects of supernova remnants. Phys. Fluids 35, 034106. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0123930
  • Abarzhi SI, Sreenivasan KR 2022 Self-similar Rayleigh-Taylor mixing with accelerations varying in time and space. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 119, e2118589119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118589119
  • Ilyin DV, Abarzhi SI 2022 Interface dynamics under thermal heat flux, inertial stabilization and destabilizing acceleration. Springer Nat. Appl. Sci. 4, 197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-022-05000-4
  • Meshkov EE, Abarzhi SI 2019 On Rayleigh-Taylor interfacial mixing. Fluid Dyn. Res. 51, 065502. https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1873-7005/ab3e83, http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04578

References

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  1. ^ a b "Q&A with the ANZIAM 2018 female plenary speakers: Snezhana Abarzhi", ANZIAM 2018, Australian Mathematical Society, retrieved 2020-11-06
  2. ^ a b I Abarzhi, S., & R. Sreenivasan, K. (n.d.). Fluid instabilities and interfacial mixing | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. In Princeton University [Speaker]. MAE Departmental Seminars, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America. https://mae.princeton.edu/about-mae/events/fluid-instabilities-and-interfacial-mixing
  3. ^ "New evidence reveals how life was created after the big bang", Scimex, 27 November 2018, archived from the original on 2023-11-02
  4. ^ Piccone, Ashley (10 March 2023). "Instabilities elucidate dynamics of supernovae blasts". Scilight. 2023 (10). doi:10.1063/10.0017465. ISSN 2572-7907.
  5. ^ a b Curriculum vitae, archived from the original on 2010-06-20
  6. ^ Abarzhi, Snezhana I.; Ilyin, Daniil V.; Goddard, William A.; Anisimov, Sergei I. (2019), "Interface dynamics: Mechanisms of stabilization and destabilization and structure of flow fields", CTR tea talk announcement and speaker biography, vol. 116, no. 37, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, pp. 18218–18226, Bibcode:2019PNAS..11618218A, doi:10.1073/pnas.1714500115, PMC 6744915, PMID 30082395, retrieved 2020-11-06
  7. ^ Abarzhi, Snezhana I.; Goddard, William A. III (2019) “Interfaces and mixing: Nonequilibrium transport across the scales”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol 116, no.37, p. 18171, Bibcode: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818855116. Abarzhi, Snezhana I.; Gauthier, Serge; Sreenivasan, Katepalli R. (2013) “Turbulent mixing and beyond: non-equilibrium processes from atomistic to astrophysical scales”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, vol. 371, p. 20120435, Bibcode: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2012.0435.
  8. ^ I. Abarzhi, S. (n.d.). Interfaces and Mixing in Fluids, Plasmas, and Materials: Introduction from Coordinators. In UC Santa Barbara. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Exploration Conference, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America. https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/interfaces-c23
  9. ^ "Committee on Scientific Publications". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
  10. ^ APS Fellows Archive: Fellows nominated by DFD in 2020, retrieved 2020-11-06
  11. ^ Top UWA physicist elected to prestigious professional society, University of Western Australia, 8 October 2020, retrieved 2020-11-06
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