Philip Chang, Ph.D.
Department Chair
Physical Review D Academic Editor
Consultant for CamberCloud
Research
I am interested in moving-mesh methods and its application to dynamical stellar problems. I am chief developer of the MANGA code which is a solver in the ChaNGa code. Note that MANGA is the moving-mesh branch of ChaNGa.
Problems studied with MANGA include:
- Common Envelope Evolution
- Tidal Disruption Events
- TZO formation
- Dwarf Novae
- NS-NS, BH-NS mergers
Also interested in Galactic acceleration measurements.
PapersCurrent Group
- Ronan Humphrey - graduate student - white dwarf TDEs
- Sarah Villanova-Borges - graduate student - common envelope evolution and planetary nebula
- Jason Vazquez - graduate student -
- Lauryn Williams - (UWash) graduate student - formation of TZOs
- Nick Nelson - undergraduate student - dwarf novae
- Robert Crawford - (Netherlands) undergraduate student - SMBBH TDEs
- Jacquot Benvides - undergraduate student - disk models
Former Group
- Daniel Murray - Ph.D. 2018 - Pulsar Space Systems
- Logan Prust - Ph.D. 2022 - Flatiron Institute
- Alexandra (Spaulding) Wirth - Ph.D. 2023 - Advanced Ionics
- Vinaya Valsan - Ph.D. 2024 (w Patrick Brady) - SmartFinancial
- John Pittman - BS 2019 - Global Power Components
- Shivam Goyal - BS 2017 - PropIQ
- Spencer Caldwell - BS 2017 - UAlabama Grad Student
Classes I have taught
- Astronomy 103: Introductory Astronomy
- Physics 209/210: Introductory Physics with Calculus
- Physics 711: Graduate Classical Mechanics
- Physics 718: High Energy Astrophysics
- Physics 811: Numerical Methods in Physics
- Physics 831: Quantum Field Theory
- Physics 903: Particle Physics
Other teaching
- Director/PI CyberInfrastructure Comprehensive, Applied and Tangible Summer School (CIberCATSS)
- Author Physicstips.org