Specialist research areas
- Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics:
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Accretion discs
- warped and eccentric discs; waves in discs; magnetic fields in discs
Planet-disc interactions
- mean-motion resonances; secular interactions; inclination and eccentricity
Protoplanetary discs
- warped and eccentric discs; waves in discs; magnetic fields in discs
- Geophysical Flows:
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Internal waves
- tidal forcing and dissipation; wave attractors
Waves in rotating fluids
- tidal forcing and dissipation; wave attractors
- Instability:
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Parametric instability
- instabilities of tidally forced or precessing bodies, warped and eccentric discs
Transition to turbulence
- rotating and magnetized shear flows
- MHD and Electrohydrodynamics:
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MHD turbulence
- magnetorotational turbulence and dynamo