The group is actively engaged in research in a wide-range of areas of astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics from planetary dynamics (the geodynamo and planetary dynamos) through solar, stellar and galactic dynamics to highly compressible and relativistic dynamics on the largest scales.
The group has a large number of research students and post-doctoral research associates and is actively seeking students who are interested in pursuing research to gain a PhD in mathematics. See the list of possible PhD projects.
News
New MSc in Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics: If you are interested in further study or research in astrophysical or geophysical fluid dynamics, you might like to consider taking our MSc in Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics. Teaching is provided by the School of Mathematics and the School of Earth and Environment, combining training from both modern applied mathematics and geophysical fluid dynamics. Further details can be found on this brochure.
Awards:
- Prof. Chris Jones received the Petrus Peregrinus Medal at the European Geoscience Union 2009.
- Prof. David Hughes holds a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship awared by the Royal Society for the academic year 2008-09.
PhD Students:
- We have two new PhD students joining the group. A warm welcome to Laura Burgess and Benjamin Hepworth.
Forthcoming programs, conferences and workshops of interest:
- RädlerFest: α effect and beyond, in honour of Karl-Heinz Rädler's 75th birthday, Nordita, Stockholm (Sweden), 14-18 February 2011.
- Winter School: Dynamics and turbulent transport in plasmas and conducting fluids, École de Physique des Houches, Les Houches (France), 28 February-11 March 2011.
- Ringberg Workshop on Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid flow: Baroclinic Instability and Protoplanetary Accretion Disks, Ringberg Castle, Bavaria (Germany), 14-18 June 2011.
- Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain), 18-21 July 2011.
- Magnetic Fields in the Universe: from Laboratory and Stars to Primordial Structures III, Zakopane, Tatra Mountains (Poland), 21-27 August 2011.
- Magnetic Fields in Stars and Exoplanets: Future Directions in Observational and Theoretical Studies, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany), 22-25 August 2011.
- 8th PAMIR International Conference on Fundamental and Applied MHD, Borgo (Corsica, France), 5-9 September 2011.
- IAU Symposium 286: Comparative Magnetic Minima: Characterizing quiet times in the Sun and Stars, Mendoza (Argentina), 3-7 October 2011.
Recent Publications & Preprints
Hollerbach R., Teeluck V. & Rüdiger G. 2010, "Nonaxisymmetric Magnetorotational Instabilities in Cylindrical Taylor-Couette Flow", Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 044502. [doi]
Hughes D.W. & Proctor M.R.E. 2010, "Turbulent magnetic diffusivity tensor for time-dependent mean fields", Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 024503. [doi]
Courvoisier A., Hughes D.W.. & Proctor M.R.E. 2010, "Self-consistent mean field MHD", Proc. R. Soc. A 466, 583. [doi]
Wareing C.J. & Hollerbach R. 2010, "Cascades in decaying three-dimensional electron magnetohydrodynamic turbulence", J. Plasma Phys. 76, 117. [doi]
Barkov M.V. & Komissarov S.S.2009, "Close binary progenitors of gamma-ray bursts", Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 401, 1644. [doi]
Wareing C.J. & Hollerbach R. 2009, "Hall cascades versus instabilities in neutron star magnetic field", Astron. Astrophys. 508, L39. [doi]
Camus N.F., Komissarov S.S., Bucciantini N. & Hughes P.A. 2009, "Observations of 'wisps' in magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the Crab Nebula", Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 400, 1241. [doi]
Courvoisier A. & Kim E. 2009, "Kinematic &alpha effect in the presence of a large-scale motion", Phys. Rev. E 80, 046308. [doi]
Burke J., Houghton S.M. & Knobloch E. 2009, "Swift-Hohenberg equation with broken reflection symmetry", Phys. Rev. E 80, 036202. [doi]