Olga Shishkina

PD Dr. Olga Shishkina is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Laboratory for Fluid Physics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity (LFPB) within the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany. Her research focuses on turbulent thermal convection, numerical simulations, and heat/momentum transport in complex fluid systems.

• Fields of Interest: Turbulent Convection, Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Numerical Simulations, Thermal Boundary Layers, Scientific Computing

Dr. Shishkina's work explores turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection, magnetoconvection, and rotating/centrifugal convection through direct numerical simulations (DNS). Key themes include scaling relations, boundary layer dynamics, and the impact of geometric constraints, magnetic fields, and buoyancy forces on flow structures.

Her recent publications (2024–2025) analyze scaling laws in sheared/rotating convection, heat transport in annular/cylindrical geometries, and machine learning applications for cosmological simulations. The group also investigates liquid metal convection, subcritical chaos, and superstructures in confined turbulent flows.

• Contact: +49 551 5176-335 | +49 551 5176-302 | olga.shishkina@ds.mpg.de
• Address: Room 2.124, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Am Faßberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany