UKMHD 2025

UKMHD 2025

Program

At A Glance


Thursday, June 26

13:00 Registration
13:30 Opening Statement

13:35 – 15:30 Solar Atmosphere
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee in Poster Room
16:00 – 17:30 Turbulence & Dynamos

18:30 Conference Dinner

Friday, June 27

9:00 – 10:20 Convection
10:20 – 11:20 Coffee break and Poster Session
11:20 – 13:00 Instabilities

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:34 Instabilities (ctd)
14:30 – 15:42 Astrophysical Disks

15:45 PhD Prize Announcement
15:50 Closing Remarks

Presenter Notes:


Invited talks should last 30 minutes, including 5 minutes for questions.

Contributed talks should last up to 13 minutes with an additional 4 minutes for questions.

Poster boards are 180 cm high by 80 cm wide. We recommend A0 posters in portrait orientation as the maximum size that displays well. The poster boards will be in front of the conference rooms for the duration of the workshop.



Program


Session 1: Solar Atmosphere, Thursday, June 26, 13:35 – 15:30

Abstracts

13:35-14:05 Tony Arber (University of Warwick) Invited Talk 
The Solar Atmospheric Modelling Suite: First Steps and Future Plans 

14:05 – 14:22 Samuel Hor (Northumbria University) 
Constraining secondary heating sources in flares through numerical modelling 

14:22 – 14:39 Ryan Smith (Northumbria University) 
Fast magnetoacoustic wave behaviour within magnetically-inhomogeneous, gravitationally-stratified media 

14:39 – 14:56 Tahlina Borradaile (Aberystwyth University) 
Effect of field line expansion on the energy flux of Alfvén Waves in the solar atmosphere 

14:56 – 15:13 Samy Lalloz (Coventry University) 
Distorted Alfvén waves in liquid metal experiments to address the solar corona heating problem 

15:13 – 15:30 Thomas Neukirch (University of St Andrews) 
Analytical Three-dimensional Magnetohydrostatic Equilibria in Spherical Geometry 


Session 2: Turbulence and Dynamos,  Thursday, June 26, 16:00 – 17:30

Abstracts

16:00 – 16:17 Erin Goldstraw (The University of Edinburgh)   
Energy Fluxes in Reduced Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence 

16:17 – 16:34 Asif Nawaz (The University of Edinburgh)  
Physics-based models for large-eddy simulations of (un)steady magnetohydrodynamic turbulence 

16:34 – 16:53 Emma Hunter (University of Glasgow) 
Lengthscale dependence of triple force balances in dynamo simulations 

16:53 – 17:10 Ayesha Sarwar (University of Glasgow) 
Force balances characteristic of different dynamo regimes 

17:10 – 17:27 Craig Duguid (Durham University) 
Dynamo action in the solar tachocline 


Session 3: Convection,  Friday, June 27, 9:00 – 10:20

Abstracts

9:00 – 9:30 Susanne Horn (Coventry University) Invited talk  
Low-Rm Rotating Magnetoconvection: Linear Theory, Simulations, Experiments and Extrapolation to Planetary Core Settings 

9:30 – 9:47 Jo Kershaw (University of Leeds)  
Dynamics of rotating convection in Earth’s outer core 

9:47 – 10:04 Matthew Lawrence (University of Leeds) 
Magnetoconvection with depth-dependent magnetic diffusivity 

10:04 – 10:21 Sonny Burrell (University of Leeds) 
Fluid instabilities in differentially rotating radiation zones with compositional gradients 


Session 4: Instabilities:  Friday, June 27, 11:20 – 13:00

Abstracts

11:20 – 11:50 Luke Gostelow (University of Glasgow) Invited talk  
Shear instability and semicircle theorems in QGSW MHD 

11:50 – 12:07 Velizar Kirkow (University of Exeter) 
Shear-driven instabilities in stratified MHD with application to the solar tachocline 

12:07 – 12:24 Scott Hopper (Newcastle University) 
Instabilities in the Solar Tachocline 

12:24 – 12:41 Matt Vine (University of Leeds)  
Instabilities of Alfvén-Gravity Waves in Stably-Stratified MHD 

12:41 – 12:58 Manohar Teja Kalluri (University of Exeter) 
Role of reconnection in Rayleigh Taylor instability 


Session 4: Instabilities (ctd):  Friday, June 27, 14:00 – 13:34

Abstracts

14:00 – 14:17 Wayne Arter  
Spiking Behaviour in MHD 

14:17 – 14:34 Muhammad Ishaq (Coventry University) 
Weakly Nonlinear Analysis of Helical Magnetorotational Instability in Taylor–Couette Flow 


Session 5: Astrophysical Disks:  Friday, June 27, 14:34 – 15:42

Abstracts

14:34 – 14:51 Nicolas Brughmans (KU Leuven) 
A visual approach to MHD accretion disk instabilities 

14:51 – 15:08 Mattias Brynjell-Rahkola (University of Cambridge) 
Self-sustaining dynamo states in astrophysical discs. Part 1: Solutions on the edge of chaos 

15:08 – 15:25 Gordon Ogilvie (University of Cambridge) 
Self-sustaining dynamo states in astrophysical discs, Part 2: Shearing waves and their electromotive forces 

15:25 – 15:42 Chris Pringle (Coventry University)  
Numerical diffusivity in MHD simulations of global accretion disc dynamos 


Poster Session: Friday, June 27, 10:20 – 11:20

Abstracts

Sonny Burrell (University of Leeds)
Fluid instabilities in differentially rotating radiation zones with compositional gradients

Rose Hinz (Newcastle University)
Simulating Large-Scale Vortices in Low Prandtl, Rapidly Rotating Convections

Paraskevi Katsiavria (Durham University)
Effects of Shear and Rotation on Convective Instabilities and Heat Transport

Alban Pothérat (Coventry University, Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems)
Magnetic Taylor-Proudman Constraint explains flows into Tangent Cylinders 

Ben Snow (University of Exeter)
Multi-species mixing in partially-ionised plasmas

Jamal Wachira (Northumbria University Compression)
Impact and Rebound shocks from Coronal Rain Downflows

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