Philip Marcus; man with short gray hair wearing a blue button-up shirt.

Research Bio

Professor Marcus' areas of research focus on computational fluid dynamics as applied to turbulent, geophysical, and astrophysical flows. He is especially interested in water desalination, strongly rotating and/or stratified flows, vortices and vortex dynamics and their applications in engineering, atmospheres, oceans, and astrophysics.

Research Expertise and Interest

algorithms, fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, atmospheric flows, convection, ocean flows, numerical analysis, wind energy, Bayesian optimization, neural networks, turbulence, planet formation, internal gravity waves, inertial waves, desalination, protoplanetary disks

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Teaching

Courses taught during the three most recent terms
2026 Spring
  • Individual Study or Research  [AST 299]  

  • Group Studies, Seminars, or Group Research  [MECENG 298]  

  • Individual Study or Research  [MECENG 299]  

2025 Fall
  • Group Studies, Seminars, or Group Research  [MECENG 298]  

  • Individual Study or Research  [MECENG 299]  

2025 Summer
  • Engineering Field Studies  [MECENG 297]  

2025 Spring
  • Individual Study or Research  [AST 299]  

  • Group Studies, Seminars, or Group Research  [MECENG 298]  

  • Individual Study or Research  [MECENG 299]