The program aims to attract highly qualified students to space- related technical studies. Two areas of particular interest at Clarkson are fluid dynamics problems arising in aeronautical engineering systems and nonlinear problems that arise in materials processing and other fluids engineering applications. It occurs in most engineering and environmental fluid flows. The goal of the Center is to assist industrial partners in tackling turbulence-related problems to improve manufacturing and design. The objective of the center is to encourage international collaboration on research involving the influence of gravity on materials processing.
Research is carried on in the laboratory, in space, and in large centrifuges.
Institute for Nonlinear Studies One of the great open frontiers in mathematics, theoretical science and engineering is the field of nonlinear phenomena. Applications include nonlinear optics and intense pulses, plasma physics, large amplitude vibrations, internal gravity waves, elementary particles, dynamical systems, turbulent flows, and pattern formation in chaotic phenomena. Founded in 1975, Clarkson s institute was the first of its kind to promote study of this discipline and to encourage interaction among faculty, research associates, students and visitors. Institute For Statistical Physics Clarkson sinstitute focuses on a common approach to a variety of scientific disciplines, including biology, astrophysics, neurology, cosmology, and the traditional areas of chemistry and physics. An early problem solved by the techniques of statistical physics is the collective motion of atoms in gas, which illustrated how properties of a complex many-constituent system may have simpler features that do not require detailed knowledge of the microscopic constituents.