 | Assistant Professor of Physics Ph.D., 2018: University of California Berkeley M.A., 2014: University of California Berkeley B.A. & B.S., 2012: Johns Hopkins University |
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| Email: | dbf233 AT nyu.edu |
| Office: | 1053 |
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| My research targets the physics of gas in and around galaxies: multiphase mixing, radiative cooling, magnetized turbulence, clustered supernovae, and cosmic-ray transport. My work sits at the intersection of small scale plasma physics, intermediate scale phenomena shaping galaxies, and large scale cosmological galaxy formation. I like to approach problems using a combination of intuitive analytics and state-of-the-art numerical experiments, and always with a close connection to the new observations that drive our field forward. My favorite projects have a model you can sketch out on a chalkboard and then back up the ideas with large GPU simulations. My current interests include the structure and energetics of turbulent radiative mixing layers; how supernovae launch galactic winds and entrain cool gas; the interplay of galactic winds with the cooling flow structure of the circumgalactic medium; and how intermittent structures in turbulent magnetic fields scatter cosmic rays. I am generally interested in multi-scale and interdisciplinary efforts. To that end, I am working on Arkenstone, a framework that embeds microphysics in cosmological simulations to follow the baryon cycle with fewer tuned parameters, and I am one of the PIs of the Simons Initiative on the Geometry of Flows, which brings together physicists and mathematicians to study how turbulence shapes boundaries and surfaces. | |
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Multiphase Gas and the Fractal Nature of Radiative Turbulent Mixing Layers — Fielding, D. B.; Ostriker, E. C.; Bryan, G. L.; Jermyn, A. S. — ApJ 894, L24 (2020). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ…894L..24F Clustered supernovae drive powerful galactic winds after superbubble breakout — Fielding, D. B.; Quataert, E.; Martizzi, D.; Faucher-Giguère, C.-A. — MNRAS 481, 3325 (2018). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.481.3325F The Structure of Multiphase Galactic Winds — Fielding, D. B.; Bryan, G. L. — ApJ 924, 82 (2022). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ…924…82F Cloud atlas: navigating the multiphase landscape of tempestuous galactic winds — Tan, B.; Fielding, D. B. — MNRAS 527, 9683 (2024). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRAS.527.9683T Self-Similar Cosmic-Ray Transport in High-Resolution Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence — Kempski, P.; Fielding, D. B.; Quataert, E.; Ewart, R. J.; et al. — arXiv:2507.10651 (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10651 Cosmic ray transport in large-amplitude turbulence with small-scale field reversals — Kempski, P.; Fielding, D. B.; Quataert, E.; et al. — MNRAS 525, 4985 (2023). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023MNRAS.525.4985K Arkenstone — I. A novel method for robustly capturing high specific energy outflows in cosmological simulations — Smith, M. C.; Fielding, D. B.; Bryan, G. L.; Kim, C.-G.; et al. — MNRAS 527, 1216 (2024). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRAS.527.1216S Arkenstone — II. A model for unresolved cool clouds entrained in galactic winds in cosmological simulations — Smith, M. C.; Fielding, D. B.; Bryan, G. L.; Bennett, J. S.; et al. — MNRAS 535, 3550 (2024). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRAS.535.3550S Accretion onto disc galaxies via hot and rotating CGM inflows — Stern, J.; Fielding, D.; et al. — MNRAS 530, 1711 (2024). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRAS.530.1711S The impact of star formation feedback on the circumgalactic medium — Fielding, D. B.; Quataert, E.; McCourt, M.; Thompson, T. A. — MNRAS 466, 3810 (2017). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017MNRAS.466.3810F A Unified Model for the Coevolution of Galaxies and Their Circumgalactic Medium: The Relative Roles of Turbulence and Atomic Cooling Physics — Pandya, V.; Fielding, D. B.; Bryan, G. L.; Carr, C.; et al. — ApJ 956, 118 (2023). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ApJ…956..118P | |
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