Professor Tom Morgan of the Physics Department is spending the month of June as a Visiting Professor at Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan. He is collaborating with Professor Tomoyuki Murakami on modeling the evolution of plasma (an assembly of ions and electrons) created by injecting energy into water.
The work focuses on water in both the vapor phase and as a liquid. Experimental collaborative work in the lab of Professor Lutz Huwel at Wesleyan is ongoing and uses a pulse of laser light to provide the energy input to the water. The goal of the research is to understand the mechanisms responsible for the transport and evolution of the energy as time passes. An additional focus is on how the laser light radiation energy that is deposited near the surface of water is dissipated into kinetic energy of ejected ballistic water droplets that have been observed in the lab rising high above the water.
The visit to Seikei University is partially funded by the Wesleyan University institutional priority global initiative to support international faculty collaborations.
