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Ian Craig (Professor)

BSc(Hons) PhD Lond

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  • Room No: G3.21
  • Telephone: +64 7 838 4466
  • Extension: 8323
  • Facsimile: +64 7 838 4666
  • Email: i.craig@waikato.ac.nz

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Research Interests
Astrophysical plasmas; magnetohydrodynamics and radiation theory; inverse problems and remote sensing; magnetic reconnection in superconducting plasmas.

Numerical simulations of reconnection are available at this link.

Publications - 2012

Articles in Refereed Journals

    Craig, I.J.D. and Litvinenko, Y.E. (2012) Inflow Reconnection solutions in Incompressible Visco-Resistive Plasmas Astrophysical Journal 747, 16.

Publications - 2011

Articles in Refereed Journals

    Armstrong, C. K., Craig, I. J. D. and Litvinenko, Y. E. (2011) Viscous Effects in Time-Dependent Planar Reconnection Astronomy and Astrophysics 534, A25.

Publications - 2010

Articles in Refereed Journals

    Craig, I.J.D. (2010) Anisotropic viscous dissipation in transient reconnecting plasmas Astronomy and Astophysics 515, 96-102.

    Craig, I.J.D. (2010) The Parker problem revisited: response to the interpretation of Low Solar Physics 266, 266-270.

    Craig, I.J.D. and Litvinenko, Y. E. (2010) Energy Losses by Anisotropic Viscous Dissipation in Transient Magnetic Reconnection Astrophysical Journal 725, 886-893.

Publications - 2009

Articles in Refereed Journals

    Craig, I.J.D. and Litvinenko, Y.E. (2009) Anisotropic Viscous Dissipation in Three-Dimensional Magnetic Merging Solutions Astronomy and Astrophysics 501, 755-760.

    Pontin, D.I., Hornig, G., Willmot-Smith, A. and Craig, I.J.D. (2009) Lagrangian relaxation schemes for calculating Force-free magnetic fields, and their limitations Astrophys. Journal 700, 1449-1455.

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