Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

 

 

Ahmad A. Hujeirat

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Short Biography

  • Master of science (1988): "Boundary layers around white dwarfs"
    Supervised by Prof. Nadav Liron/Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Profs. Oded Regev and Mario Livio/Faculty of Physics, Technion, Haifa
  • PhD (1994): "Time-evolution of accretion disks: A numerical hydrodynamical method" , supervised by Prof. Rannacher, Faculty of Applied Mathematics, University of Heidelberg
  • Habilitation in Physics (venia docendi, 2006): "Formation and acceleration of jets around black holes"
    Mentor, Prof. Thielemann, Department Physics, University of Basel
  • Habilitation in Astronomy (venia legendi, 2011):  Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Heidelberg

Research interests:

The focus of my research is to use mathematical and computer tools to study diverse unresolved phenomena in high energy astrophysics.

The topics are:

  • Mathematical and theoretical astrophysics
  • Implicit numerical methods in astrophysical fluid dynamics
  • Numerical general relativity
  • Development of the ultimate solver: GRIMHD

Astrophysical applications:

  • Collapse of clouds and generation of stars
  • Accretion disks around compact stars and in AGNs
  • Formation and acceleration of jets around stellar and supermassive black holes
  • Current activities:X-ray bursts on neutron stars and gamma-ray bursts
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