Yuri Lvov, assistant professor of mathematics, recently received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.
Lvov will use NSF’s $350,000, five year grant, to further his work on weak turbulence theory. The theory predicts how energy in complex systems will behave over time. ONR’s $300,000, three year grant, is related to Lvov’s previous work but is more specific to surface ocean wave research.
The focus of Lvov’s research will be on internal ocean waves and how their wavelengths determine their energy will be . Consequently, the findings will aid meterologists in making better weather forecasts.
Lvov, 32, joined the mathematics department in 1999 and is considered to be one of the best researchers among RPI’s faculty.
