Principal Investigator:
Dr. Ryan Farber, Dr. Max Grönke
, Department of Physics, Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USA, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany
HPC Platform used:
SuperMUC-NG at LRZ
Local Project ID:
pn49ye
On Earth, the water cycle proceeds by three processes. First, water evaporates from the ocean and lakes. Second, water vapor condenses to form clouds. Third, clouds precipitate droplets of water which fall to the Earth as rain. After the rain falls to the Earth, the water droplets collect and eventually flow to lakes and oceans to be evaporated again. Galaxies cycle their star-forming fuel (called “baryons” in distinction to dark matter) in a similar three-step process.