Carl H. Gibson Home Page

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Some courses I teach:

AMES 101A Introductory Fluid Mechanics (Summer 1996) Grades: Summer 1997
AMES 103A Introductory Fluid Mechanics (Summer 1996) Grades: Summer 1997

AMES 101B Introductory Fluid Mechanics (Summer 1997)

AMES 101B Introductory Fluid Mechanics Winter 1998

AMES 101A, 103A (Summer 1998)

AMES 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Fall 1998)

STPA 35 Society and The Sea (Fall 1998)

AMES 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Winter 1999)

AMES 101A, 103A (Summer 1999)

STPA 35 Society and The Sea (Fall 1999)

AMES (MAE) 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Winter 2000)

AMES/MAE 101A, 103A (Summer 2000)

STPA 35 Society and The Sea (Fall 2000)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Winter 2001)

STPA 35 Society and The Sea (Fall 2001)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Winter 2002)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Spring 2002)

STPA 35 Society and The Sea (Fall 2002)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Fall 2002)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Winter 2003)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Fall 2003)

STPA 35 Society and The Sea (Fall 2003)

MAE 87 Freshman Seminar: New Observations and Ideas about Cosmology (Fall 2003)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Winter 2004)

MAE 87 Freshman Seminar: New Observations and Ideas about Cosmology (Winter 2004)

STPA 35 Society and The Sea (Fall 2004)

MAE 87 Freshman Seminar: New Observations and Ideas about Cosmology (Fall 2004)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Winter 2005)

MAE 87 Freshman Seminar: New Observations and Ideas about Cosmology (Winter 2005)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Spring 2005)

MAE 87 Freshman Seminar: New Observations and Ideas about Cosmology (Spring 2005)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Fall 2005)

STPA 35 Society and The Sea (Fall 2005)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Winter 2006)

MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills (Fall 2006)

STPA 35 Society and The Sea (Fall 2006 )

An annotated publication list is given below. For reprints or copies of these papers, email cgibson@ucsd.edu.

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Reprints and preprints about Gibson (1988-2003) gravitational structure formation, big bang turbulence, and fossil turbulence theories. New preprint about Helix Planetary Nebula.

Flash animations of turbulence, big bang turbulence, and a model for surface manifestations of municipal outfall fossil turbulence by student Pak Tao Leung. You need QuickTime to view the movies.

Talk at American Astronomical Society meeting, San Diego, CA January 11, 200l. [123.07] The fluid mechanics of dark matter formation: Earth-mass Primordial Fog Particles (PFPs), ProtoGlobularstarClusters (PGCs), and WIMPLITEsuperhalos.

Abstract "The First Turbulent Mixing and Combustion" for the Kingston, Canada, IUTAM meeting June 3-6, 2001. See preprint on "The First Turbulence" for further information. The CMB temperature spectrum has recently been extended by interferometer measurements, but without corrections for the intermittency of big-bang fossil temperature turbulence. See Max Tegmark's webpage about the theory and measurements of the cosmic microwave background spectrum.

Evidence that the "big-bang" was driven by a powerful turbulence event is given by extended self-similarity (ESS) coefficients of CMB temperature fluctuations, which perfectly match those of high Reynolds number turbulence (from calculations of A. Bershadskii and K. Sreenivasan). According to Bershadskii, "Kolmogorov's fingerprints are all over the CMB".

APS/DFD minisymposium in honor of Charles W. Van Atta, November 19, 2001, San Diego. Organizers and speakers.

The Remote Anthropogenic Sensor Program (Ocean Sciences 2006 Poster) is a test of the ability of Russian scientists to detect the existence, location, and hydrodynamic properties of submerged remnants of previous turbulence (fossil turbulence) from space satellite pictures. A field test was carried out in August-September 2002 using the wastefield produced by the Sand Island Municipal outfall off the Honolulu airport as the source of the submerged turbulence and fossil turbulence. See Pak Tao Leung's research website. Second and third field tests RASP 2003 and RASP 2004 were carried out August-September 2003, 2004, to provide microstructure sea-truth to the remarkable result of RASP II in August-September 2002 showing detection of submerged outfall remants at distances up to 10 km SW of the diffuser pipe. Optical images show anomalies covering up to 200 km^2 to 20 km from the diffuser, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images show anomalies from the outfall covering 800 km^2 to 45 km. The physical mechanism reflects the maser-action ability of fossil turbulence patches to extract energy from ambient internal waves, producing new turbulence and fossils that radiate fossil turbulence waves toward the surface where patterns of the ambient internal waves are sensed as anomalies. Reprint of Geophysical Research Letters 2005 (published in Vol. 32, L12610, doe:10.1029/2005GL022390). Preprints give details of the remote sensing of submerged turbulence Gibson,Bondur,Keeler Leung 2006a, and the energetics of the beamed zombie turbulence maser action mixing chimney mechanism Gibson, Bondur, Keeler, Leung 2006b.

Some pretty pictures from papers in progress:

BOOMERANG measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature spectrum fail to show a strong secondary sonic peak, and raise the question "Sound or Structure?" for the interpretation of the primary peak. Abstract, Figure (adapted from Wayne Hu's 2000, Nature 404, p939 article). Figure.pdf. Indications of fossil Big Bang turbulence can be inferred from the BOOMERANG spectra (pdf). A cartoon shows a possible mechanism of the process at Planck scales.

Figure from "Turbulence in the ocean, atmosphere, galaxy, and universe" in the May, 1996, issue of Applied Mechanics Review, showing a model for the the evolution of structure in the universe due to self-gravitation controlled by turbulence and viscous forces: Hydrodynamic history of the universe. Two new forms of dark matter emerge from the theory; "primordial fog particles" (Moon to Earth mass rogue planets...thirty million per star in a galaxy) that condensed when the plasma universe turned to gas 300,000 years after the big bang, and "WIMP" (weakly interacting massive particles such as neutrinos) that form outer galaxy halos and galaxy cluster superhalos.

Figure from an article titled "Fossils of primordial turbulence and non-turbulence at the Schwarz Radii---the length scales of condensation for self-gravitating fluid matter": Primordial fog comets from latest HST release. which may show primordial fog particles in the Helix Planetary nebula. Gas shells emitted from the dying star may be bringing these highly volatile (frozen hydrogen-helium planet) "comets" out of cold storage.

The first images in Jan. 2000 of the serviced Hubble Space Telescope included the Eskimo Nebula NGC2392, which shows PFP candidates as "comets" in the "parka" just like those in the Helix Pn.

Figure from the same article showing star formation in the Eagle open star cluster and nebula (M-16), with the proposed "Schwarz-turbulence" gravitational-turbulence scale L_STo that existed at beginning of fossilization, due to buoyant damping, of the material condensing to form the star: Star formation in Eagle Nebula.

The "Cat's Eye Nebula" in Draco, showing some observational candidates for evaporating primordial fog particles (PFPs). A pair of star-mass objects is in the center of the planetary nebula. One is a dying star which intermittently blasts away layers of gas that are captured or beamed away by the companion. The other has a spinning accretion disk (it may be a black hole) that electromagnetically produces narrow beams of plasma. These beams act like a powerful double searchlight that symmetrically illuminates everything in light-year diameter vicinity of the pair (such as the primordial fog particles, by evaporation). Compare with thousands of earth-mass cometary globules revealed by radiation from the dying star in the Helix Nebula, the planetary nebula closest to the earth. PFP candidates in Cat's Eye Nebula.

Recent Hubble Deep Field photographs, showing a young red galaxy less than a billion years old. The most red shifted galaxies only appear through the HST red filter, as shown on the right.

Great debate on the nature of the universe 1998.

American Astronomical Society Decadal Discussion WebPage : C. H. Gibson Contribution

Talk at APS/DFD 1997 San Francisco meeting "Turbulent Gravitational Instability and Dark Matter". Introduction. Linear versus non-linear theories. Cold spot condensation, hot spot void formation, Jeans spot damping. Plasma to gas to proto-globular-clusters to primordial fog particles. Conclusions.

Paper submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics, "Theory and Observations of Galactic Dark Matter, by C. H. Gibson and R. E. Schild (845 kb pdf file).
Figures (jpeg images): 1. Turbulence production of density microstructure, with and without gravity 2. Condensation and void formation on cold and hot spots 3. Protogalaxies to PFPs 4 Quasar Image A (94-95, Harvard/Princeton) 5 Quasar Image B (95-96, Harvard/Princeton/Canary Island) 6 Combined-3 observatory microlensing event 7a. Present theory 7b. Jeans theory 7c. Structure formation

Letter submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics, "The fluid mechanics of dark matter formation: Why does Jeans's (1902 & 1929) theory fail?" (465 kb pdf file).

Paper submitted to the Fluid Engineering Summer Meeting 1999, "Turbulent mixing, diffusion and gravity in the formation of cosmological structures: The fluid mechanics of dark matter" ( pdf file).

Talk at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB, Feb. 8, 2000, "Turbulence and Fossil Turbulence in Natural Fluids"

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