The Astrophysical Plasma Modeling Team (LMPA) aims to understand astrophysical processes driven by gravity, radiative hydrodynamics, and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), and to characterize their observable consequences. Our theoretical approach is physics-centered and leverages the most suitable numerical, analytical, and experimental tools to address the complexity of turbulence, shocks, and instabilities.
The astrophysical questions we address are primarily centered on the birth of stars and protoplanetary disks, the formation of compact objects, and the explosive death of massive stars: