John M. Blondin

Bio

Professor Blondin received his PhD in 1987 from The University of Chicago and did postdoctoral work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Virginia, and UNC-CH. He joined NC State University in 1993 as an Assistant Professor. He was the Director of Undergraduate Programs in Physics from 2007 to 2011, Head of the Physics Department from 2012 to 2016, and was named Associate Dean of Research in the College of Sciences in 2016. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award a Sigma Xi Research Award, and has been named a Cottrell Scholar, an NC State Outstanding Teacher, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science , and an NC State Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor.

Area(s) of Expertise

His research focuses on computational gas dynamics, with applications to interacting binary stars, accretion disks around compact objects, planetary nebulae, supernovae and supernova remnants. His research places a strong emphasis on the dynamics of shock waves; He discovered the Non-linear Thin-Shell Instability and the Spherical Accretion Shock Instability, the later of which may aid in driving supernova explosions. He co-authored the hydrodynamics code VH-1, which is widely used in the astrophysics community.

Publications

• A Parametric Study of the SASI Comparing General Relativistic and Nonrelativistic Treatments , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2024)
• Core collapse supernova gravitational wave emission for progenitors of 9.6, 15, and 25M(?) , PHYSICAL REVIEW D (2023)
• Phase-resolved spectroscopic analysis of the eclipsing black hole X-ray binary M33 X-7: System properties, accretion, and evolution , ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS (2022)
• Type Ia Supernova Models: Asymmetric Remnants and Supernova Remnant G1.9+0.3 , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2021)
• Chimera: A Massively Parallel Code for Core-collapse Supernova Simulations , The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (2020)
• Gravitational-wave signal of a core-collapse supernova explosion of a 15 M⊙ star , Physical Review D (2020)
• White Dwarfs in Close Binaries: A Systematic Search for Mass-transfer Systems and Supernova Ia Progenitors in the APOGEE Survey , Research Notes of the AAS (2020)
• Investigating the Structure of Vela X , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2018)
• Evolution of a Pulsar Wind Nebula within a Composite Supernova Remnant , The Astrophysical Journal (2017)
• Pulsar Wind Bubble Blowout from a Supernova , ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2017)