Publications (39)
The Nature of Angular Momentum Transport in Radiative Self-Gravitating Protostellar Discs
Duncan Forgan, Ken Rice, Peter Cossins +1
Semi-analytic models of self-gravitating discs often approximate the angular momentum transport generated by the gravitational instability using the phenomenology of viscosity. Thi…
Native Synthetic Imaging of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics density fields using gridless Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer
Duncan Forgan, Ken Rice
An algorithm for creating synthetic telescope images of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) density fields is presented, which utilises the adaptive nature of the SPH formalism i…
Phantom: A smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics
Daniel J. Price, James Wurster, Terrence S. Tricco +24
We present Phantom, a fast, parallel, modular and low-memory smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code developed over the last decade for astrophysical applicat…
On the fragmentation boundary in magnetised self-gravitating discs
Duncan Forgan, Daniel J. Price, Ian Bonnell
We investigate the role of magnetic fields in the fragmentation of self-gravitating discs using 3D global ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations performed with the "phantom" smoothe…
The Effect of Irradiation on the Jeans Mass in Fragmenting Self-Gravitating Protostellar Discs
Duncan Forgan, Ken Rice
When a self-gravitating disc is subject to irradiation, its propensity to fragmentation will be affected. The strength of self-gravitating disc stresses is expected to dictate disc…
Assessing Circumbinary Habitable Zones using Latitudinal Energy Balance Modelling
Duncan Forgan
Previous attempts to describe circumbinary habitable zones have been concerned with the spatial extent of the zone, calculated analytically according to the combined radiation fiel…