F. DOUGLAS SWESTY
Research Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy
douglas.swesty@stonybrook.edu | (631)-632-8055, ESS 463
Research Group Website | Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2025 Aug 5)

Biography
F. Douglas Swesty is a Research Associate Professor at Stony Brook University. He obtained his Ph. D. from Stony Brook University in 1993 and then joined the University of Illinois as a postdoc and then later as a visiting assistant Professor. He joined the Stony Brook faculty in 1999.

Research Statement
My research interests are in the areas of computational physics and nuclear and relativistic astrophysics. I am currently working on a problems: highly parallel algorithms for radiation hydrodynamics and methods for quantifying uncertainty in numerical simulations. Other areas of interest to me include  numerical models of binary neutron star system mergers, the explosion mechanism of core collapse supernovae, the neutrino signature & gravitational wave signature of supernovae, general relativistic radiation hydrodynamics, and the equation of state of hot, dense matter.