Main Research Interests

• Magnetic reconnection in three-dimensions

Publications

• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Priest, E.R., Hornig, G., `Magnetic Diffusion and the Motion of Field Lines',
  Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 99, No. 2, pp. 177 (April 2005) pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Martens, P.C.H., Nandy, D., Priest, E.R., Tobias, S.M., `Low-order stellar dynamo models',
  MNRAS, 363 , pp. 1167 (September 2005) pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Hornig, G., Priest, E.R., `Dynamic non-null magnetic reconnection in three-dimensions - I. Particular Solutions',
  Proc. Roy. Soc. A., 462 (2074) pp. 2877 (October 2006) pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Nandy, D., Hornig, G., Martens, P.C.H., `A Time-Delay Model for Solar and Stellar Dynamos'.
  ApJ, 652, pp.696 (November 2006) pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., De Moortel, I. `Magnetic reconnection in flux-tubes undergoing spinning footpoint motions'
  A & A, accepted, (2007) pdf
• Wilmot-Smith, A.L., Priest, E.R., `Flux tube disconnection - An example of 3D reconnection'.
  Physics of Plasmas, accepted (2007) pdf

Work in Progress

• Composite non-null reconnection solutions
• Numerical modelling of 3D MHD reconnection.
• The efffect of variable meridional circulation in solar dynamo models.