Dr. Mehmet Sarp Yalim

Research Scientist I S3, CSPAR

Contact

320 Sparkman Drive
Cramer Research Hall
Room 2043
Huntsville, AL 35899
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256.961.7068
msy0002@uah.edu

Biography

Dr. Mehmet Sarp Yalim received his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in Belgium in 2008. He had a joint postdoc appointment at the Center for mathematical Plasma Astrophysics at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) and Department of Solar Physics at the Royal Observatory of Belgium between 2008 and 2013. During his appointment, he was also a member of the Science Center for European Space Agency's PROBA2 Satellite located at the Royal Observatory of Belgium.

Sarp joined the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) in July 2015. He is a Research Scientist at CSPAR in UAH. He is also the Program Coordinator of the UAH CSPAR/NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Heliophysics NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program. He was awarded the S.T. Wu CSPAR Performance Award in 2019 for outstanding performance within the Center. His main research interests are solar physics, space weather, computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods, scientific code development, and parallel computing.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Engineering Sciences, Free University of Brussels (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, 2008
  • Diploma Course, Aeronautics and Aerospace, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium, 2004
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2002
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2000

Research Funding

  • Development of a Data-driven Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation Model for Flux-Emerging Active Regions Leading to Coronal Mass Ejections (NSF AGS-2020703) - $437,188.

Expertise

  • Observational solar physics
  • Solar atmosphere modeling
  • Space weather
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Numerical methods
  • Scientific code development
  • Parallel computing

Recent Publications

  • Yalim, M. S.; Prasad, A.; Pogorelov, N. V.; Zank, G. P.; Hu, Q.; Effects of Cowling resistivity in the weakly ionized chromosphere, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 899, L4 doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aba69a (2020)

  • Singh, T.; Yalim, M. S.; Pogorelov, N. V.; Gopalswamy, N.; A modified spheromak model suitable for coronal mass ejection simulations, The Astrophysical Journal, 894, 49, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab845f (2020)

  • Singh, T.; Yalim, M. S.; Pogorelov, N. V.; Gopalswamy, N.; Simulating solar coronal mass ejections constrained by observations of their speed and poloidal flux, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 875, L17, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab14e9 (2019)

  • Singh, T.; Yalim, M. S.; Pogorelov, N. V.; A data-constrained model for coronal mass ejections using the Graduated Cylindrical Shell method, The Astrophysical Journal, 864, 18, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aad3b4 (2018)

  • Yalim, M. S.; Poedts, S.; Variations in EUV irradiance: Comparison between LYRA, ESP and SWAP integrated flux, Advances in Astronomy, Article ID 957461, p. 1, doi:10.1155/2014/957461 (2014)

  • Lani, A.; Yalim, M. S.; Poedts, S.; A GPU-enabled finite volume solver for global magnetospheric simulations on unstructured grids, Computer Physics Communications, 185(10), p. 2538, doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2014.06.001 (2014)

  • Seaton, D. B.; Berghmans, D.; Nicula, B.; Halain, J.-P.; De Groof, A.; Thibert, T.; Bloomfield, D. S.; Raftery, C. L.; Gallagher, P. T.; Auchère, F.; Defise, J.-M.; D'Huys, E.; Lecat, J.-H.; Mazy, E.; Rochus, P.; Rossi, L.; Schühle, U.; Slemzin, V.; Yalim, M. S.; Zender, J.; The SWAP EUV imaging telescope Part I: Instrument overview and pre-flight testing, Solar Physics, 286(1), p. 43, doi:10.1007/s11207-012-0114-6 (2013)

  • Zender, J.; Berghmans, D.; Bloomfield, D. S.; Cabanas Parada, C.; Dammasch, I.; De Groof, A.; D'Huys, E.; Dominique, M.; Gallagher, P.; Giordanengo, B.; Higgins, P. A.; Hochedez, J.-F.; Yalim, M. S.; Nicula, B.; Pylyser, E.; Sanchez-Duarte, L.; Schwehm, G.; Seaton, D. B.; Stanger, A.; Stegen, K.; Willems, S.; The Projects for Onboard Autonomy (PROBA2) science centre: Sun Watcher Using APS Detectors and Image Processing (SWAP) and Large-Yield Radiometer (LYRA) science operations and data products, Solar Physics, 286(1), p. 93, doi:10.1007/s11207-012-00336 (2013)

  • Yalim, M. S.; Vanden Abeele, D.; Lani, A.; Quintino, T.; Deconinck, H.; A finite volume implicit time integration method for solving the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics for the hyperbolic divergence cleaning approach, Journal of Computational Physics, 230(15), p. 6136, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2011.04.020 (2011)