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Mostafa Abdel-Hamid
University of Missouri-St.Louis
Parkway South High School
Advisor: Dr. Greg Comer
Abstract
This work was performed with SLU Parks College Theoretical Astrophysics Professor Dr. Gregory Comer and was supported by NASA grant through the University of Missouri St. Louis. Research centered on how to use the computer programming software MATLAB to model the oscillations of Neutron Stars. The first step was to look at the differential equations examining the change in density and Mass with respect to the change in radius. After this, different methods of numerically integrating these equations were studied. Once we reached this point, the problem of how to model the oscillations with respect to time came up. To get acquainted with this, we looked at the comparatively simple problem of the heat dissipation with respect to time of a piece of metal with a candle being held to one of its ends. We were able to successfully model and graph this by numerically integrating the heat conduction equations with respect to time. However after successfully completing this task, when we turned our attention to model the Neutron star oscillations with respect to time, we reached a roadblock. We were not successful in our task to model the oscillations with respect to time, but however we did succeed in modeling the oscillations with respect to radius and we learned how to evolve heat dissipation with respect to time.
Mostafa Abdel-Hamid Hamid is a senior at Parkway South High School In Manchester Missouri. Mostafa was born in Vancouver, BC, Canada and has lived in Vancouver, Toronto, Detroit and St.Louis. He is still unsure of his plans after graduation but he plans study biophysics at the University of British Columbia, Toronto, Penn State, Illinois or Case Western University.
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