Dr. Min Soe
Professor of Physics
Department of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Phone: 918-343-7693, Email: msoe@rsu.edu,  Office: TL114

Academic Background
Ph.D. (Physics), College of William and Mary, 1997

Areas of Research / Interest
CFD, turbulence modeling, mesoscale physics and large-scale parallel computing.

Recent Publications (2005 - present)

"Poincare Recurrence and Spectral Cascades in 3D Quantum Turbulence" G. Vahala, J. Yepez, L. Vahala, M. Soe, B. Zhang and S. Ziegeler,  Phys. Rev. E 00 006700 (2011) 17pp    e-Print: arXiv:1011.6334v2 [quant-ph].

"Unitary Qubit Lattice Simulations of Multiscale Phenomena in Quantum Turbulence" G. Vahala, M. Soe, B. Zhang, J. Yepez, L. Vahala, J. Carter and S. Ziegeler, SC|2011

"A Unitary Quantum Lattice Gas Algorithm for Two Dimensional Quantum Turbulence" B. Zhang, G. Vahala, L. Vahala, M. Soe,  Phys. Rev. E 84 046701 (2011) 13pp e-Print: arXiv:1103.1852v1 [quant-ph] 

"Unitary Qubit Lattice Gas Representation of 2D and 3D Quantum Turbulence" G. Vahala, B. Zhan, J. Yepez, L. Vahala, M. Soe, Chapter in Fluid Dynamics Vol I  ISBN 979-953-307-111-3 (2011)

"Quantum Lattice-Gas Model of Spinor Superfluids" J. Yepez, G. Vahala, L. Vahala, M. Soe.  SPIE Quantum Information and Computation VIII 7702, No.770209 (2010)

"Poincare Recurrence and Intermittent Destruction of Quantum Kelvin Wave Cascade in Quantum Turbulence" G. Vahala, J. Yepez, L. Vahala, M. Soe, S. Ziegeler SPIE, Quant. Info Comp. VIII Vol. 7702 (2010)

“Superfluid Turbulence from Quantum Kelvin Wave to Classical Kolomogrov Cascades"
J. Yepez, G. Vahala, L. Vahala, M. Soe. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 084501 (2009)

"Entropic, LES and Boundary Conditions in Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Turbulence”
G. Vahala, B. Keating, M. Soe, J. Yepez, L. Vahala. S.Ziegler
Euro. Phys. J. - ST 171, pp 167-171 (2009)

"Quantum Lattice-Gas Algorithm for Quantum Turbulence - CAP Simulations on 12,288 Cores of Cray XT- 5 at NAVO "  G. Vahala, J. Yepez, M. Soe, L. Vahala, and S. Ziegeler. IEEE Computer Society ISBN 978-0-7695-3946-1, pp106-113 (2009)

"MHD Turbulence Studies Using Lattice Boltzmann Algorithms"
G. Vahala, B. Keating, M. Soe, J. Yepez, L. Vahala, J. Carter and S. Ziegler.
Comm. in Comp. Phys. Vol 4, No. 3, pp 624-646 (2008)

"Entropic Lattice Boltzmann Representations Required to Recover Navier-Stokes Flows"
B. Keating, G. Vahala, J. Yepez, M. Soe, and L.Vahala. Phys. Rev. E75 036712 (2007)

"Lattice Boltzmann Algorithms for Fluid Turbulence"
G. Vahala, M. Soe, S. Ziegeler, J.Yepez, L.Vahala,  IEEE Computer Society 0-7695-3088-5 pp 52-56 (2007) 

"Non Local Closure and Parallel Performance of Lattice Boltzmann Models for Some Plasma Physics Problems" A. D. Macnab, G. Vahala, J. Carter, M. Soe and W. Dorland
Physica A 362, pp 48-56 (2006)

"Magnetohydrydynamics Turbulence Simulations on Earth Simulator Using Lattice Boltzmann Method" J. Carter, M. Soe, L. Oliker, Y. Tsuda, G. Vahala, L. Vahala and A. Macnab. SC|05 Gordon Bell Finalist paper ISBN 1-59593-061 2

"Performance of Lattice Boltzmann Codes for Navier-Stokes and MHD Turbulence on High- End Computer Architectures" G. Vahala, J. Carer, M. Soe, J. Yepez, L. Vahala and A. Macnab. Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2005 ISBN 0-44-522060-9