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Feb 24, 2009

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Nov 24, 2008

Big sigh... another day, another WKBJ

Oct 14, 2008

I hate competition

Feb 4, 2008

Zeus3D has shattered my chariot with a thunderbolt

Dec 18, 2006

Jesus, that was fun.

Nov 2, 2006

It's in. Come what may...

Aug 7, 2006

The Trinity JRF application has rammed the joy out of my life

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The Piece of Rank Arrant S*@$ is ready for resubmission

Mar8, 2006

I struggle with this eigenvalue problem...

Latest update
Nov 24, 2008

Protoplanetary disks

*The dynamics of the interfaces between MRI turbulent (active) and quiescent (dead) zones

*The dynamics of dead-zones and of dust: streaming and double-diffusive instabilities

*Gravitational instability

The magnetorotational instability

*Saturation, intermittency, and channel flows

*Interplay between thermodynamics and turbulence in protoplanetary and dwarf nova disks

Planetary rings

*The kinetic theory of dense granular gases

*The relationship between the viscous overstability and subkilometre structure in Saturn's A and B rings

*The relationship between the ballistic transport instability and 100 km undulations in the inner B-ring and plateaus in the C-ring

*Tidal disruption of satellites and the formation of the Uranian epsilon ring

*Waves, instabililities, and shepherding in narrow rings

Other interests

*Solar differential rotation

*QPOs and the diskoseismology of black-hole accretion disks

*Dynamo theory

*Instabilities in hot accretion flows and the intra-cluster medium

*The MHD of exoplanetary atmospheres

*Nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation

Papers

1. H. N. Latter, S. A. Balbus, 2012. The dynamics of inner dead-zone boundaries in protoplanetary disks. MNRAS, submitted.
2. H. N. Latter, H. Rein, G. I. Ogilvie, 2012. The gravitational instability of a stream of co-orbital particles. MNRAS, submitted.

3. S. A. Balbus, H. N. Latter, N. O. Weiss, 2012. Global model of differential rotation in the Sun. MNRAS, in press.
4. E. Jacquet, S. A. Balbus, H. N. Latter, 2011. On linear dust-gas streaming instabilities in protoplanetary discs. MNRAS, 415, 3591.

5. H. N. Latter & G. I. Ogilvie, 2010. Hydrodynamical simulations of viscous overstability in Saturn's rings. Icarus, 210, 318.
6. S. A. Balbus & H. N. Latter, 2010. The tachocline and differential rotation in the Sun. MNRAS, 407, 2565.
7. H. N. Latter, S. Fromang, O. Gressel, 2010. MRI channels flows in vertically-stratified models of accretion disks. MNRAS, 406, 848.
8. H. Latter & D. J. Ivers, 2010. Spherical single-roll dynamos at large magnetic Reynolds numbers. Physics of Fluids, 22, 066601.
9. H. N. Latter, J. F. Bonart, S. A. Balbus, 2010. Resistive double-diffusive instability in the dead-zones of protostellar disks. MNRAS, 405, 1831.

10. S. A. Balbus, J. Bonart, H. Latter, N. Weiss, 2009. On differential rotation and convection in the Sun. MNRAS, 400, 176.
11. H. N. Latter & S. A. Balbus, 2009. Inertial waves near corotation in 3D hydrodynamical disks. MNRAS, 399, 1058.
12. H. N. Latter & G. I. Ogilvie, 2009. The viscous overstability, nonlinear wavetrains, and fine-scale structure in dense planetary rings. Icarus, 202, 565.
13. P. Lesaffre, S. Balbus & H. N. Latter, 2009. A comparison of local simulations and reduced models of MRI-induced turbulence. MNRAS, 396, 779.
14. H. N. Latter, P. Lesaffre & S. A. Balbus, 2009. MRI channel flows and their parasites. MNRAS, 394, 715.

15. H. N. Latter & G. I. Ogilvie, 2008. Dense planetary rings and the viscous overstability. Icarus, 195, 725.
16. H. N. Latter & G. I. Ogilvie, 2006. Viscous overstability and eccentricity evolution in three-dimensional gaseous disks. MNRAS, 372, 1829.
17. H. N. Latter & G. I. Ogilvie, 2006. The linear stability of dilute particulate rings. Icarus, 184, 498.
18. H. Latter & D. Ivers, 2004. Kinematic roll dynamo computations at large magnetic Reynolds numbers. ANZIAM J., 45(E), C905.


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