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

Research Description

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.