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Carolyn Kuranz

Carolyn C. Kuranz

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Affiliated Professor

Contact

ckuranz@umich.edu(734) 615-6282

Location

Climate & Space Research Building 2455 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143

Primary Website

  • http://clasp-research.engin.umich.edu/crash/

Related links

  • Curriculum vitae
  • University of Michigan Space Institute
  • Education
  • Professional Service
  • Research Interests
  • Awards
  • Publications

Education

  • A.B. 2002, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
    Majors: Physics (with Honors)
    Advisor: Peter Beckmann
  • Ph.D, April 2009, Applied Physics
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    Advisor: R. Paul Drake

Professional Service

  • Member, Radiation dominated plasma and material properties panel, Research Needs Workshop on High
  • Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas, Rockville, MD, November 2009
  • Member, Executive Committee for the American Physical Society Topical Group of Plasma Astrophysics
  • Member, Interface and shear instabilities panel, Workshop on Opportunities in Plasma Astrophysics,
  • Princeton, NJ, January 2010
  • Reviewer, Department of Energy, Oce of Science Graduate Award Fellowship
  • Reviewer, Omega Laser Facility, Laboratory for Basic Science review panel, 2010-2013
  • Chair and organizer of Hydrodynamics of Supernovae and Astrophysical Jets in the Laboratory and the
  • Universe session in the American Astronomical Society Meeting-in-a-Meeting, Bridging Laboratory and
  • Astrophysics: Frontiers in Plasma Astrophysics
  • Member, Program Committee, American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics 2010,
  • 2014, 2016
  •  Member, Experimental Panel, Material Mixing Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, January 2011
  • Member, Panel on Work/Life Balance in Graduate School, Graduate Society of Women in Engineering
  •  Judge, Michigan Institute of Plasma Studies Student Poster Session 2011
  • Member, Steering Committee, International Conference on High Energy Density Physics
  • (ICHED), 2011- present
  • Member, Scientic Organizing Committee of the International High Energy Density Lab-
  • oratory Astrophysics, 2012
  • Founding Chair, Jupiter Laser User Group, 2012 – present
  • Member, Executive Committee, Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering,
  • 2012 – present
  • Chair, Subcommittee on High Energy Density Physics of the Division of Plasma Physics
  • Program Committee
  •  Research Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, 2009-present
  • University of Michigan, Applied Physics Admissions Committee
  • Member at Large, Executive Committee, Division of Plasma Physics, 2014 – present
  • Member, AOSS Candidacy Exam Committee
  • Journal Referee
  • Physics of Plasmas
  • Journal of Instrumentation
  • New Journal of Physics
  • High Energy Density Physics

Research Interests

The Center for Laser Experimental Astrophysical Research (CLEAR) models and creates hot, dense plasma to study the physical mechanisms that matter for astrophysical phenomena including supernova explosions, supernova remnant evolution, and the collisions of shock waves with molecular clouds. Our work involves both experiments and theory of astrophysical systems and plasmas. We model, design and create plasma experiments, analyze data and develop new diagnostic techniques.

  • High-Energy-Density Physics
  • Laboratory Astrophysics
  • Hydrodynamic Instabilities
  • Plasma Physics
  • Radiation Hydrodynamics
  • Magnetized Plasmas

Awards

  • Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award
  • American Astronomical Society Laboratory Astrophysics Division Early Career Award

Publications

Selected Publications (See CV for full list)

  • M. J-E. Manuel, C.C. Kuranz, A.M. Rasmus, S. Klein, M.J. Macdonald, M.R. Trantham, J.R. Fein, P.X. Belancourt, R.P. Young, P.A. Keiter, R.P. Drake, B.B. Pollack, J. Park, A.U. Hazi, G.J. Williams, and H. Chen, “Experimental results from magnetized-jet experiments at the Jupiter Laser Facility,” High Energy Density Physics, in press, 2015.
  • W.C. Wan , G. Malamud , A. Shimony, C.A. Di Stefano , M.R. Trantham, S.R. Klein, D. Shvarts, C.C. Kuranz, R.P. Drake, “Observation of single-mode, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in a supersonicow” Physical Review Letters , 115 , 145001 (2015).
  • C.M. Huntington, F. Fiuza, J.S. Ross, A.B. Zylstra, R.P. Drake, D.H. Froula, G. Gregori, N.L. Kugland, C.C. Kuranz, M.C. Levy, C.K. Li, J. Meinecke, T. Morita, R. Petrasso, C. Plechaty, B.A. Remington, D.D. Ryutov, Y. Sakawa, A. Spitkovsky, H. Takabe and H.-S. Park, “Observation of magnetic eld generation via the Weibel instability in interpenetrating plasma ows,” Nature Physics , 11 , 173-176 (2015). DOI:10.1038/NPHYS3178
  • C.A. Di Stefano, G. Malamud, C.C. Kuranz, S.R. Klein, C. Stoeckl, R.P. Drake “Richtmyer-Meshkov mode coupling under steady shock conditions in the high-energy-density regime” Applied Physics Letters , 106 , 114103 (2015). DOI:10.1063/1.4915303
  • C.A. Di Stefano, C. C. Kuranz, J. F. Seely, A.G.R. Thomas, R. P. Drake, P. A. Keiter, G. J. Williams, J. Park, H. Chen, M. J. MacDonald, A. Rasmus, W.C. Wan, N.R. Pereira, A.S. Joglekar, A. McKelvey, Z. Zhao, S.R. Klein, E. Kemp, L. C. Jarrott, C.M. Krauland, J. Peebles, and B. Westover, “Observations of energetic electron propagation after picosecond laser irradiation,” Physics of Plasmas , 22  043113 (2015). DOI:10.1063/1.4917325
  • C. K. Li, D. D. Ryutov, S. X. Hu, M. J. Rosenberg, A. B. Zylstra, F. H. Sguin, J. A. Frenje, D. T. Casey, M. Gatu Johnson,M. J-E. Manuel, H. G. Rinderknecht, R. D. Petrasso, P. A. Amendt, H. S. Park, B. A. Remington, S. C. Wilks, R. Betti, D. H. Froula, J. P. Knauer, D. D. Meyerhofer, R. P. Drake, C. C. Kuranz, R. Young, and M. Koenig, “Structure and Dynamics of Colliding Plasma Jets,” Physical Review Letters , 111 , 235003 (2013). DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.235003
  • C. A. Di Stefano, G. Malamud, M. T. Henry de Frahan, C. C. Kuranz, A. Shimony, S. R. Klein, R P. Drake, E. Johnsen, D. Shvarts, V. A. Smalyuk, D. Martinez, “Observation and modeling of mixing-layer development in high-energy-density, blast-wave-driven shear ow,” Physics of Plasmas , 21 , 056306 (2014). DOI:10.1063/1.4872223
  • J. Meinecke, H. Doyle, F, Miniati, A. Bell, R. Bingham, R. Crowston, R. P. Drake, M. Fatenejad, M. Koenig, Y. Kuramitsu, C. Kuranz, D. Lamb, D. Lee, M. MacDonald, C. Murphy, H.S. Park, A. Pelka, A. Ravasio, Y. Sakawa, A. Schekochihin, A. Scopatz, P. Tzeferacos, W. Wan, N. Woolsey, R. Yurchak, B. Reville, and G. Gregori, “Turbulent amplication of magnetic elds in laboratory laser-produced shock waves,” Nature Physics , 10 , 520-524 (2014). DOI:10.1038/NPHYS2978
  • G. Malamud, A. Shimony, W.C. Wan, C.A. Di Stefano, Y. Elbaz, C.C. Kuranz, P.A. Keiter, R.P. Drake, D. Shvarts, “A design of a two-dimensional, supersonic KH experiment on OMEGA-EP,” High Energy Density Physics , 9 , 672-696 (2013). DOI:10.1016/j.hedp.2013.06.002 
  •  C.C. Kuranz, R.P. Drake, C.M. Huntington, C.M. Krauland, M. Trantham, M.J. Grosskopf, S.R. Klein, D.C. Marion, \Early-time evolution of a radiative shock,” High Energy Density Physics , 2 , 315-318 (2013). DOI:10.1016/j.hedp.2012.12.012
  • N.L. Kugland, J.S. Ross, P.-Y. Chang, R.P. Drake, G. Fiksel, D.H. Froula, S.H. Glenzer, G. Gregori, M. Grosskopf, C. Huntington, M. Koenig, Y. Kuramitsu, C. Kuranz, M.C. Levy, E. Liang, D. Martinez, J. Meinecke, F. Minati, T. Morita, A. Pelka, C. Plechaty, R. Presura, A. Ravisio, B.A. Remington, B. Reville, D. Ryutov, Y. Sakawa, A. Spitkovsky, H. Takabe, and H.S. Park, “Visualizing electromagneticelds in laser-produce counter-streaming plasma experiments for collisionless shock laboratory astrophysics,” Physics of Plasmas , 20 , 056313 (2013). DOI:10.1063/1.4804548
  • C.C. Kuranz, R.P. Drake,C.M. Krauland, D.C. Marion, M.J. Grosskopf, E. Rutter, B. Torralva, J.P.Holloway, D. Bingham, J. Goh, T.R. Boehly, and A.T. Sorce, “Initial conditions of radiative shock experiments,” Physics of Plasmas , 5 , 056321 (2013). DOI:10.1063/1.4805021
  • C.M. Krauland, R.P. Drake, C.C. Kuranz, R. Sweeney, M. Grosskopf, S. Klein, R. Gillespie, P. A. Keiter, B. Loupias, and E. Falize, “Radiative reverse shock laser experiments relevant to accretion processes in cataclysmic variables,” Physics of Plasmas , 5 , 056502 (2013). DOI:10.1063/1.4805023
  •  C.A. Di Stefano, C.C. Kuranz, P.A. Keiter, S.R. Klein, D.C. Marion, R.P. Drake,\Late-time breakup of laser-driven hydrodynamics experiments,” High Energy Density Physics , 8 , 4 (2012). DOI:10.1016/j.hedp.2012.09.006
  • C.M Krauland, R.P. Drake, C.C. Kuranz, B. Loupias, T. Plewa, C.M. Huntington, D.N. Kaczala, S. Klein, R. Sweeney, R.P. Young, E. Falize, B. Villette, P. A. Keiter, “Reverse radiative shock laser experiments relevant to accreting stream-disk impact in interacting binaries,” Astrophysical Journal Letters , 762 , L2 (2013). DOI:10.1088/2041-8205/762/1/L2 A.G.R. Thomas, M. Sherlock, C.C. Kuranz, C.P. Ridgers, R.P. Drake, “Hybrid Vlasov-Fokker-Planck- Maxwell simulations of fast electron transport and the time dependance of K-shell excitation in a mid-Z metallic target,” New Journal of Physics , 15 , 015017 (2013). DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/15/1/015017
  • C.M. Krauland, L.C. Jarrott, R.P. Drake, P.A. Keiter, C.C. Kuranz, B. Westover, H. Sawada, D.N. Kaczala, P. Bonoglo, “An evaluation of high energy Bremsstrahlung background in point-projection x-ray radiography experiments,” Review of Scientic Instruments , 83 , 10E528 (2012). DOI:10.1063/1.4738649
  • O.A. Hurricane, V.A. Smalyuk, K. Raman, O. Schilling, J.F. Hansen, G. Langsta, D. Martinez, H.-S. Park, B.A. Remington, H.F. Robey, J.A. Greenough, R. Wallace, C.A. Di Stefano, R.P. Drake, D. Marion, C.M. Krauland, and C.C. Kuranz, “Validation of a Turbulent Kelvin-Helmholtz Shear Layer Model Using a High-Energy-Density OMEGA Laser Experiment,” Physical Review Letters , 109 , 155004, 2012. DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.155004
  • N.L Kugland, D.D. Ryutov, P.-Y. Chang, R.P. Drake, G. Fiksel, D.H. Froula, G. Gregori, M. Grosskopf, M. Koenig, Y. Kuramitsu, C. Kuranz, M.C. Levy, L. Liang, J. Meinecke, F. Miniati, T. Morita, A Pelka, C. Plechaty, R. Presura, A. Ravisio, B.A. Remington, B. Revile, J.S. ross, Y. Sakawa, A. Spitkovsky, H. Takabe, H.-.S Park, “Self-organized electromagnetic eld structures in laser-produced counterstreaming plasmas,” Nature Physics 8 , 809-812 (2012). DOI:110.1038/NPHYS2434


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