Professor Declan Diver
- Professor of Plasma Physics (Physics & Astronomy)
telephone:
01413305686
email:
Declan.Diver@glasgow.ac.uk
R606 Level 6, Physics & Astronomy, Kelvin Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Research interests
Personal webpage: http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/?p=157
My primary rsearch interest is in the physics of plasmas, particularly theory and numerical simulations of fluid and kinetic plasmas, and imperfectly ionised low-temperature technological plasmas. Specific topics of interest are as follows: LOW TEMPERATURE PLASMAS: electron avalanches, ionization waves, metastable excitation, streamer formation, surface modification; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMAS: dielectric barrier discharges in air, sprites and energetic particle beam formation above thunderclouds via atmospheric electrostatics; PLASMAS AND DUST: charging and growth of dust particles in plasmas, including aerosols (liquid droplets), and modification of ambient neutral gas by grain discharges and/or surface catalysis via electron-moderated plasma chemistry. FLUID PLASMAS: MHD plasma - neutral gas momentum coupling, magnetic evolution in cosmological plasmas Ferrofluids: suspension and control of ferrofluid droplets against gravity. SOLAR PLASMAS: solar surface flows and the interaction with magnetic elements; ionising flows and critical ionization speeds. RELATIVISTIC PLASMAS: pair plasma kinetic theory, including Bernstein mode analysis and relativistic Landau damping; radiation coupling to, and damping of, electrostatic oscillations and waves in pulsar atmospheres;
researcherID: E-6672-2010
Publications
2024
Hudson, H. S. , Cliver, E. W., Fletcher, L. , Diver, D. A. , Gallagher, P. T., Li, Y., Osborne, C. M.J., Stark, C. and Su, Y. (2024) An impulsive geomagnetic effect from an early-impulsive flare. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(3), pp. 3120-3125. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae1720)
2022
Stark, C. R. and Diver, D. A. (2022) Evaluating the stability of numerical schemes for fluid solvers in game technology. International Journal of Computer Games Technology, 2022, 4138315. (doi: 10.1155/2022/4138315)
2020
Stark, C.R. and Diver, D.A. (2020) Evolution of spheroidal dust in electrically active sub-stellar atmospheres. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 644, A131. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202037589)
2019
Wilson, A.D., Dobbs-Dixon, I., Diver, D.A. and Stark, C.R. (2019) Critical velocity ionization in substellar atmospheres. Astrophysical Journal, 887(2), 138. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab5800)
2018
Stark, C.R. and Diver, D.A. (2018) Dust cloud evolution in sub-stellar atmospheres via plasma deposition and plasma sputtering. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 611, A91. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731253)
2017
Wilson, A.D. and Diver, D.A. (2017) Ionization fronts in coupled MHD-gas simulations. Physics of Plasmas, 24(9), 092112. (doi: 10.1063/1.5001083)
Maguire, P., Rutherford, D., Macias-Montero, M., Mahony, C., Kelsey, C., Tweedie, M., Pérez-Martin, F., McQuaid, H., Diver, D. and Mariotti, D. (2017) Continuous in-flight synthesis for on-demand delivery of ligand-free colloidal gold nanoparticles. Nano Letters, 17(3), pp. 1336-1343. (doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03440) (PMID:28139927)
2016
Diver, D.A. and Laing, E.W. (2016) Modelling nonlinear electrostatic oscillations in plasmas. Physics of Plasmas, 23(12), 122103. (doi: 10.1063/1.4968520)
Bennet, E.D. et al. (2016) Precision charging of microparticles in plasma via the Rayleigh instability for evaporating charged liquid droplets. Journal of Aerosol Science, 100, pp. 53-60. (doi: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2016.05.002)
Wilson, A.D. and Diver, D.A. (2016) Alfvén ionization in an MHD-gas interactions code. Physics of Plasmas, 23(7), 072117. (doi: 10.1063/1.4956443)
Helling, C., Harrison, R. G., Honary, F., Diver, D. A. , Aplin, K., Dobbs-Dixon, I., Ebert, U., Inutsuka, S.-i., Gordillo-Vazquez, F. J. and Littlefair, S. (2016) Atmospheric electrification in dusty, reactive gases in the solar system and beyond. Surveys in Geophysics, 37(4), pp. 705-756. (doi: 10.1007/s10712-016-9361-7)
2015
Stark, C.R. , Helling, C. and Diver, D.A. (2015) Inhomogeneous cloud coverage through the Coulomb explosion of dust in substellar atmospheres. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 579, A41. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526045)
Maguire, P. D. et al. (2015) Controlled microdroplet transport in an atmospheric pressure microplasma. Applied Physics Letters, 106(22), 224101. (doi: 10.1063/1.4922034)
Diver, D. and Laing, E. (2015) Scale-lengths and instabilities in magnetized classical and relativistic plasma fluid models. Physica Scripta, 90(2), 025602. (doi: 10.1088/0031-8949/90/2/025602)
2014
Bennet, E. D. , Potts, H. E., Teodoro, L. F.A. and Diver, D. A. (2014) Electron acceleration by magnetic collapse during decoupling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(2), pp. 1521-1525. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu1857)
Stark, C.R., Helling, C., Diver, D.A. and Rimmer, P.B. (2014) Electrostatic activation of prebiotic chemistry in substellar atmospheres. International Journal of Astrobiology, 13(2), pp. 165-172. (doi: 10.1017/S1473550413000475)
2013
Stark, C.R. , Helling, C., Diver, D.A. and Rimmer, P.B. (2013) Ionization in atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets V. Alfvén ionization. Astrophysical Journal, 776(1), pp. 1-20. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/776/1/11)
Füllekrug, M. et al. (2013) Electron acceleration above thunderclouds. Environmental Research Letters, 8(3), 035027. (doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035027)
Laing, E. W. and Diver, D. A. (2013) Ultra-relativistic electrostatic Bernstein waves. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 55(6), 065006. (doi: 10.1088/0741-3335/55/6/065006)
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Stark, C. and Diver, D.A. (2013) Ionization in atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets. III. breakdown conditions for mineral clouds. Astrophysical Journal, 767(2), p. 136. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/767/2/136)
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Diver, D. and Witte, S. (2013) Dust cloud lightning in extraterrestrial atmospheres. Planetary and Space Science, 77, pp. 152-157. (doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.07.003)
MacLachlan, C. S., Potts, H. E. and Diver, D. A. (2013) Simulation of transient energy distributions in sub-ns streamer formation. Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 22(1), Art. 015025. (doi: 10.1088/0963-0252/22/1/015025)
Füllekrug, M. et al. (2013) Energetic charged particles above thunderclouds. Surveys in Geophysics, 34(1), pp. 1-41. (doi: 10.1007/s10712-012-9205-z)
Diver, D.A. and Alharbi, M. (2013) Dust growth in magnetised plasmas. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,
Diver, D.A. , Fullekrug, M., Helling, C., Stark, C.R. and Wilson, A. (2013) Ionization and charging in dusty atmospheres. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Stark, C.R., Rimmer, P. and Diver, D.A. (2013) Mineral clouds and ionisation processes in extrasolar, planetary atmospheres. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,
Stark, C.R., Helling, C., Diver, D.A. and Rimmer, P.B. (2013) Alfvén ionization in exoplanetary atmospheres. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013, p. 706.
Stark, C.R. , Helling, C., Diver, D.A. and Rimmer, P.B. (2013) Alfvén ionization in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs. Societa Astronomica Italiana, Memorie, 84, p. 1132.
Wilson, A. and Diver, D.A. (2013) Ionization in MHD-Gas interactions. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,
2011
Potts, H.E., Diver, D.A. , Everest, P.C. and O'Connor, R.D. (2011) Plasma Decontamination of Sealed Packages. In: 30th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG 2011), Belfast, UK, 28 Aug - 02 Sep 2011,
da Costa, A., Diver, D.A. , Laing, E.W., Stark, C.R. and Teodoro, L.F.A. (2011) Pulsar electrodynamics: Relativistic kinetic theory of radiative plasmas-collective phenomena and their radiation. Physical Review D, 83(2), 023013. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.023013)
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Diver, D. and Witte, S. (2011) Electrification events in mineral clouds of planetary atmospheres. In: Extreme Solar Systems Meeting II (ESSII), Moran, WY, USA, 11-17 Sep 2011,
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Witte, S. and Diver, D.A. (2011) Extraterrestrial lightning in atmospheric dust clouds. In: EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, Nantes, France, 2-7 Oct 2011, p. 8.
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Witte, S. and Diver, D.A. (2011) Ionization in atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets. i. The role of electron avalanche. Astrophysical Journal, 727(1), p. 4. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/727/1/4)
2010
Potts, H., Hudson, H.S., Fletcher, L. and Diver, D.A. (2010) The optical depth of white-light flare continuum. Astrophysical Journal, 722(2), pp. 1514-1521. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1514)
Diver, D. , da Costa, A., Laing, E., Stark, C. and Teodoro, L. (2010) On the surface extraction of electrons in a pulsar. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 401(1), pp. 613-620. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15684.x)
2009
0919274.1 (2009) Plasma Generation Apparatus and use of Plasma Generation Apparatus. .
Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2009) A repository of precision flat fields for high-resolution mdi continuum data. Solar Physics, 258(2), pp. 343-351. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-009-9408-8)
MacLachlan, C.S., Diver, D.A. and Potts, H.E. (2009) The evolution of electron overdensities in magnetic fields. New Journal of Physics, 11(6), 063001. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/6/063001)
Diver, D.A. and Laing, E.W. (2009) Similarity theory of nonlinear cold pair-plasma dynamics. Physics of Plasmas, 16(092301), (doi: 10.1063/1.3216545)
2008
Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2008) Post-hoc derivation of SOHO Michelson doppler imager flat fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 492(3), pp. 863-871. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:200810606)
Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2008) Automatic recognition and characterisation of supergranular cells from photospheric velocity fields. Solar Physics, 248(2), pp. 263-275. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-007-9068-5)
Teodoro, L.F.A., Diver, D.A. and Hendry, M.A. (2008) A cautionary note on cosmological magnetic fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 383(1), L35-L39. (doi: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00406.x)
Diver, D.A. and Teodoro, L.F.A. (2008) Unplugging the universe: the neglected electromagnetic consequence of decoupling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 385(1), L73-L77. (doi: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2008.00436.x)
2007
Stark, C.R. , Diver, D.A., da Costa, A.A. and Laing, E.W. (2007) Nonlinear mode coupling in pair plasmas. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 476(1), pp. 17-30. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20077988)
Potts, H.E., Khan, J. and Diver, D. (2007) Small scale energy release driven by supergranular flows on the quiet Sun. Solar Physics, 245(1), pp. 55-68. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-007-9021-7)
Shapiro, B., Probst, R., Potts, H.E., Diver, D.A. and Lubbe, A. (2007) Control to concentrate drug-coated magnetic particles to deep-tissue tumors for targeted cancer chemotherapy. In: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, USA, 12-14 Dec 2007, pp. 3901-3906. (doi: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434844)
2006
Diver, D.A. , Potts, H.E. and Teodoro, L.F.A. (2006) Gas-plasma compressional wave coupling by momentum transfer. New Journal of Physics, 8(11), pp. 265-279. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/8/11/265)
Stark, C.R. , Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2006) Elliptical dust growth in astrophysical plasmas. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 457(2), pp. 365-370. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20064922)
Laing, E.W. and Diver, D.A. (2006) Relativistic Landau damping of longitudinal waves in isotropic pair plasmas. Physics of Plasmas, 13(9), 092115. (doi: 10.1063/1.2353901)
Stark, C.R. , Diver, D.A. and da Costa, A.A. (2006) Magnetized electron-positron plasmas. In: WE-Heraeus Seminar on: Neutron Stars and Pulsars, Bad Honnef, Germany, 14-19 May 2006, pp. 145-148.
2005
Laing, E.W. and Diver, D.A. (2005) On damped Bernstein modes in a weakly relativistic pair plasma. Physical Review E, 72(3), 036409. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.036409)
Diver, D.A., Fletcher, L. and Potts, H.E. (2005) Fip enhancement by Alfven ionization. Solar Physics, 227(2), pp. 207-215. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-005-2447-x)
2004
Potts, H.E., Barrett, R.K. and Diver, D.A. (2004) Balltracking: an highly efficient method for tracking flow fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 424(1), pp. 253-262. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20035891)
2003
Potts, H.E., Barrett, R.K. and Diver, D.A. (2003) Reduction of interpolation errors when using local correlation tracking for motion detection. Solar Physics, 217(1), 69 -78. (doi: 10.1023/A:1027322016500)
Dowds, B.J.P., Barrett, R.K. and Diver, D.A. (2003) Streamer initiation in atmospheric pressure gas discharges by direct particle simulation. Physical Review E, 68(2), 026412. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.026412)
Keston, D.A., Laing, E.W. and Diver, D.A. (2003) Bernstein modes in a weakly relativistic electron-positron plasma. Physical Review E, 67, art 036403. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.67.036403)
2002
Diver, D.A. , Da Costa, A.A. and Laing, E.W. (2002) Coupling between electrostatic and electromagnetic behaviour in a cylindrical equal-mass plasma. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 387(1), 339 -346. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20020302)
da Costa, A.A. and Diver, D.A. (2002) Pulsar geometrodynamics: the magnetospheric plasma flow. In: Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories, Rome, 2-8 July 2000, pp. 2309-2310. ISBN 9812380108 (doi: 10.1142/9789812777386_0560)
2001
Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2001) Ferrofluid hydrodynamics: waves, jets and free drops. Brazilian Journal of Physics, 31(3), 433 -440. (doi: 10.1590/S0103-97332001000300014)
Potts, H.E., Barrett, R.K. and Diver, D.A. (2001) Dynamics of freely-suspended drops. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 34(17), 2529 -2536. (doi: 10.1088/0022-3727/34/17/309)
Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2001) Large-amplitude ferrofluid surface waves and jets. New Journal of Physics, 3(1), (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/3/1/307)
Da Costa, A.A. and Diver, D.A. (2001) Pulsar geometrodynamics: limitations for the gamma-ray radiation. In: High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy: International Symposium, Heidelberg, Germany, 26-30 June 2000, 823 -826. ISBN 1563969904 (doi: 10.1063/1.1370885)
da Costa, A.A., Diver, D.A. and Stewart, G.A. (2001) Pulsar magnetospheres: numerical simulations of large amplitude electron-positron oscillations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 366(1), 129 -137. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20000031)
Barrett, R. and Diver, D. (2001) Lattice Boltzmann simulations for technological plasma discharges. Bulletin of the American Physical Society,
Diver, D.A. (2001) A Plasma Formulary for Physics, Technology, and Astrophysics. Wiley-VCH: Berlin. ISBN 9783527402946
2000
Wade, N.S., Diver, D.A. , McDonald, D.C. and Millar, A.P. (2000) Modelling the dielectrophoresis effect on the transport of neutral molecules in processing plasmas. Physics Letters A, 275(5-6), 447 -451. (doi: 10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00610-1)
Millar, A.P., McDonald, D.C. and Diver, D.A. (2000) Genetic algorithms in plasma diagnostic analysis. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 42(3), 337 -346. (doi: 10.1088/0741-3335/42/3/310)
1997
Diver, D.A. and Ireland, D.G. (1997) Spectral decomposition by genetic algorithm. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 399(2-3), pp. 414-420. (doi: 10.1016/S0168-9002(97)00999-6)
Articles
Hudson, H. S. , Cliver, E. W., Fletcher, L. , Diver, D. A. , Gallagher, P. T., Li, Y., Osborne, C. M.J., Stark, C. and Su, Y. (2024) An impulsive geomagnetic effect from an early-impulsive flare. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(3), pp. 3120-3125. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae1720)
Stark, C. R. and Diver, D. A. (2022) Evaluating the stability of numerical schemes for fluid solvers in game technology. International Journal of Computer Games Technology, 2022, 4138315. (doi: 10.1155/2022/4138315)
Stark, C.R. and Diver, D.A. (2020) Evolution of spheroidal dust in electrically active sub-stellar atmospheres. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 644, A131. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202037589)
Wilson, A.D., Dobbs-Dixon, I., Diver, D.A. and Stark, C.R. (2019) Critical velocity ionization in substellar atmospheres. Astrophysical Journal, 887(2), 138. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab5800)
Stark, C.R. and Diver, D.A. (2018) Dust cloud evolution in sub-stellar atmospheres via plasma deposition and plasma sputtering. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 611, A91. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731253)
Wilson, A.D. and Diver, D.A. (2017) Ionization fronts in coupled MHD-gas simulations. Physics of Plasmas, 24(9), 092112. (doi: 10.1063/1.5001083)
Maguire, P., Rutherford, D., Macias-Montero, M., Mahony, C., Kelsey, C., Tweedie, M., Pérez-Martin, F., McQuaid, H., Diver, D. and Mariotti, D. (2017) Continuous in-flight synthesis for on-demand delivery of ligand-free colloidal gold nanoparticles. Nano Letters, 17(3), pp. 1336-1343. (doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03440) (PMID:28139927)
Diver, D.A. and Laing, E.W. (2016) Modelling nonlinear electrostatic oscillations in plasmas. Physics of Plasmas, 23(12), 122103. (doi: 10.1063/1.4968520)
Bennet, E.D. et al. (2016) Precision charging of microparticles in plasma via the Rayleigh instability for evaporating charged liquid droplets. Journal of Aerosol Science, 100, pp. 53-60. (doi: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2016.05.002)
Wilson, A.D. and Diver, D.A. (2016) Alfvén ionization in an MHD-gas interactions code. Physics of Plasmas, 23(7), 072117. (doi: 10.1063/1.4956443)
Helling, C., Harrison, R. G., Honary, F., Diver, D. A. , Aplin, K., Dobbs-Dixon, I., Ebert, U., Inutsuka, S.-i., Gordillo-Vazquez, F. J. and Littlefair, S. (2016) Atmospheric electrification in dusty, reactive gases in the solar system and beyond. Surveys in Geophysics, 37(4), pp. 705-756. (doi: 10.1007/s10712-016-9361-7)
Stark, C.R. , Helling, C. and Diver, D.A. (2015) Inhomogeneous cloud coverage through the Coulomb explosion of dust in substellar atmospheres. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 579, A41. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526045)
Maguire, P. D. et al. (2015) Controlled microdroplet transport in an atmospheric pressure microplasma. Applied Physics Letters, 106(22), 224101. (doi: 10.1063/1.4922034)
Diver, D. and Laing, E. (2015) Scale-lengths and instabilities in magnetized classical and relativistic plasma fluid models. Physica Scripta, 90(2), 025602. (doi: 10.1088/0031-8949/90/2/025602)
Bennet, E. D. , Potts, H. E., Teodoro, L. F.A. and Diver, D. A. (2014) Electron acceleration by magnetic collapse during decoupling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(2), pp. 1521-1525. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu1857)
Stark, C.R., Helling, C., Diver, D.A. and Rimmer, P.B. (2014) Electrostatic activation of prebiotic chemistry in substellar atmospheres. International Journal of Astrobiology, 13(2), pp. 165-172. (doi: 10.1017/S1473550413000475)
Stark, C.R. , Helling, C., Diver, D.A. and Rimmer, P.B. (2013) Ionization in atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets V. Alfvén ionization. Astrophysical Journal, 776(1), pp. 1-20. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/776/1/11)
Füllekrug, M. et al. (2013) Electron acceleration above thunderclouds. Environmental Research Letters, 8(3), 035027. (doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035027)
Laing, E. W. and Diver, D. A. (2013) Ultra-relativistic electrostatic Bernstein waves. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 55(6), 065006. (doi: 10.1088/0741-3335/55/6/065006)
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Stark, C. and Diver, D.A. (2013) Ionization in atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets. III. breakdown conditions for mineral clouds. Astrophysical Journal, 767(2), p. 136. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/767/2/136)
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Diver, D. and Witte, S. (2013) Dust cloud lightning in extraterrestrial atmospheres. Planetary and Space Science, 77, pp. 152-157. (doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.07.003)
MacLachlan, C. S., Potts, H. E. and Diver, D. A. (2013) Simulation of transient energy distributions in sub-ns streamer formation. Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 22(1), Art. 015025. (doi: 10.1088/0963-0252/22/1/015025)
Füllekrug, M. et al. (2013) Energetic charged particles above thunderclouds. Surveys in Geophysics, 34(1), pp. 1-41. (doi: 10.1007/s10712-012-9205-z)
Stark, C.R. , Helling, C., Diver, D.A. and Rimmer, P.B. (2013) Alfvén ionization in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs. Societa Astronomica Italiana, Memorie, 84, p. 1132.
da Costa, A., Diver, D.A. , Laing, E.W., Stark, C.R. and Teodoro, L.F.A. (2011) Pulsar electrodynamics: Relativistic kinetic theory of radiative plasmas-collective phenomena and their radiation. Physical Review D, 83(2), 023013. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.023013)
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Witte, S. and Diver, D.A. (2011) Ionization in atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets. i. The role of electron avalanche. Astrophysical Journal, 727(1), p. 4. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/727/1/4)
Potts, H., Hudson, H.S., Fletcher, L. and Diver, D.A. (2010) The optical depth of white-light flare continuum. Astrophysical Journal, 722(2), pp. 1514-1521. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1514)
Diver, D. , da Costa, A., Laing, E., Stark, C. and Teodoro, L. (2010) On the surface extraction of electrons in a pulsar. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 401(1), pp. 613-620. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15684.x)
Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2009) A repository of precision flat fields for high-resolution mdi continuum data. Solar Physics, 258(2), pp. 343-351. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-009-9408-8)
MacLachlan, C.S., Diver, D.A. and Potts, H.E. (2009) The evolution of electron overdensities in magnetic fields. New Journal of Physics, 11(6), 063001. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/6/063001)
Diver, D.A. and Laing, E.W. (2009) Similarity theory of nonlinear cold pair-plasma dynamics. Physics of Plasmas, 16(092301), (doi: 10.1063/1.3216545)
Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2008) Post-hoc derivation of SOHO Michelson doppler imager flat fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 492(3), pp. 863-871. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:200810606)
Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2008) Automatic recognition and characterisation of supergranular cells from photospheric velocity fields. Solar Physics, 248(2), pp. 263-275. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-007-9068-5)
Teodoro, L.F.A., Diver, D.A. and Hendry, M.A. (2008) A cautionary note on cosmological magnetic fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 383(1), L35-L39. (doi: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00406.x)
Diver, D.A. and Teodoro, L.F.A. (2008) Unplugging the universe: the neglected electromagnetic consequence of decoupling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 385(1), L73-L77. (doi: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2008.00436.x)
Stark, C.R. , Diver, D.A., da Costa, A.A. and Laing, E.W. (2007) Nonlinear mode coupling in pair plasmas. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 476(1), pp. 17-30. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20077988)
Potts, H.E., Khan, J. and Diver, D. (2007) Small scale energy release driven by supergranular flows on the quiet Sun. Solar Physics, 245(1), pp. 55-68. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-007-9021-7)
Diver, D.A. , Potts, H.E. and Teodoro, L.F.A. (2006) Gas-plasma compressional wave coupling by momentum transfer. New Journal of Physics, 8(11), pp. 265-279. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/8/11/265)
Stark, C.R. , Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2006) Elliptical dust growth in astrophysical plasmas. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 457(2), pp. 365-370. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20064922)
Laing, E.W. and Diver, D.A. (2006) Relativistic Landau damping of longitudinal waves in isotropic pair plasmas. Physics of Plasmas, 13(9), 092115. (doi: 10.1063/1.2353901)
Laing, E.W. and Diver, D.A. (2005) On damped Bernstein modes in a weakly relativistic pair plasma. Physical Review E, 72(3), 036409. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.036409)
Diver, D.A., Fletcher, L. and Potts, H.E. (2005) Fip enhancement by Alfven ionization. Solar Physics, 227(2), pp. 207-215. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-005-2447-x)
Potts, H.E., Barrett, R.K. and Diver, D.A. (2004) Balltracking: an highly efficient method for tracking flow fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 424(1), pp. 253-262. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20035891)
Potts, H.E., Barrett, R.K. and Diver, D.A. (2003) Reduction of interpolation errors when using local correlation tracking for motion detection. Solar Physics, 217(1), 69 -78. (doi: 10.1023/A:1027322016500)
Dowds, B.J.P., Barrett, R.K. and Diver, D.A. (2003) Streamer initiation in atmospheric pressure gas discharges by direct particle simulation. Physical Review E, 68(2), 026412. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.026412)
Keston, D.A., Laing, E.W. and Diver, D.A. (2003) Bernstein modes in a weakly relativistic electron-positron plasma. Physical Review E, 67, art 036403. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.67.036403)
Diver, D.A. , Da Costa, A.A. and Laing, E.W. (2002) Coupling between electrostatic and electromagnetic behaviour in a cylindrical equal-mass plasma. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 387(1), 339 -346. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20020302)
Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2001) Ferrofluid hydrodynamics: waves, jets and free drops. Brazilian Journal of Physics, 31(3), 433 -440. (doi: 10.1590/S0103-97332001000300014)
Potts, H.E., Barrett, R.K. and Diver, D.A. (2001) Dynamics of freely-suspended drops. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 34(17), 2529 -2536. (doi: 10.1088/0022-3727/34/17/309)
Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2001) Large-amplitude ferrofluid surface waves and jets. New Journal of Physics, 3(1), (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/3/1/307)
da Costa, A.A., Diver, D.A. and Stewart, G.A. (2001) Pulsar magnetospheres: numerical simulations of large amplitude electron-positron oscillations. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 366(1), 129 -137. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20000031)
Barrett, R. and Diver, D. (2001) Lattice Boltzmann simulations for technological plasma discharges. Bulletin of the American Physical Society,
Wade, N.S., Diver, D.A. , McDonald, D.C. and Millar, A.P. (2000) Modelling the dielectrophoresis effect on the transport of neutral molecules in processing plasmas. Physics Letters A, 275(5-6), 447 -451. (doi: 10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00610-1)
Millar, A.P., McDonald, D.C. and Diver, D.A. (2000) Genetic algorithms in plasma diagnostic analysis. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 42(3), 337 -346. (doi: 10.1088/0741-3335/42/3/310)
Diver, D.A. and Ireland, D.G. (1997) Spectral decomposition by genetic algorithm. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 399(2-3), pp. 414-420. (doi: 10.1016/S0168-9002(97)00999-6)
Books
Diver, D.A. (2001) A Plasma Formulary for Physics, Technology, and Astrophysics. Wiley-VCH: Berlin. ISBN 9783527402946
Conference Proceedings
Diver, D.A. and Alharbi, M. (2013) Dust growth in magnetised plasmas. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,
Diver, D.A. , Fullekrug, M., Helling, C., Stark, C.R. and Wilson, A. (2013) Ionization and charging in dusty atmospheres. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Stark, C.R., Rimmer, P. and Diver, D.A. (2013) Mineral clouds and ionisation processes in extrasolar, planetary atmospheres. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,
Stark, C.R., Helling, C., Diver, D.A. and Rimmer, P.B. (2013) Alfvén ionization in exoplanetary atmospheres. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013, p. 706.
Wilson, A. and Diver, D.A. (2013) Ionization in MHD-Gas interactions. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,
Potts, H.E., Diver, D.A. , Everest, P.C. and O'Connor, R.D. (2011) Plasma Decontamination of Sealed Packages. In: 30th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG 2011), Belfast, UK, 28 Aug - 02 Sep 2011,
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Diver, D. and Witte, S. (2011) Electrification events in mineral clouds of planetary atmospheres. In: Extreme Solar Systems Meeting II (ESSII), Moran, WY, USA, 11-17 Sep 2011,
Helling, C., Jardine, M., Witte, S. and Diver, D.A. (2011) Extraterrestrial lightning in atmospheric dust clouds. In: EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, Nantes, France, 2-7 Oct 2011, p. 8.
Shapiro, B., Probst, R., Potts, H.E., Diver, D.A. and Lubbe, A. (2007) Control to concentrate drug-coated magnetic particles to deep-tissue tumors for targeted cancer chemotherapy. In: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, USA, 12-14 Dec 2007, pp. 3901-3906. (doi: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434844)
Stark, C.R. , Diver, D.A. and da Costa, A.A. (2006) Magnetized electron-positron plasmas. In: WE-Heraeus Seminar on: Neutron Stars and Pulsars, Bad Honnef, Germany, 14-19 May 2006, pp. 145-148.
da Costa, A.A. and Diver, D.A. (2002) Pulsar geometrodynamics: the magnetospheric plasma flow. In: Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories, Rome, 2-8 July 2000, pp. 2309-2310. ISBN 9812380108 (doi: 10.1142/9789812777386_0560)
Da Costa, A.A. and Diver, D.A. (2001) Pulsar geometrodynamics: limitations for the gamma-ray radiation. In: High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy: International Symposium, Heidelberg, Germany, 26-30 June 2000, 823 -826. ISBN 1563969904 (doi: 10.1063/1.1370885)
Patents
0919274.1 (2009) Plasma Generation Apparatus and use of Plasma Generation Apparatus. .
Research datasets
2019
Wilson, A., Dobbs-Dixon, D., Diver, D. and Stark, C. (2019) Critical Velocity Ionisation in Substellar Atmospheres. [Data Collection]
2016
Wilson, A. and Diver, D. (2016) Alfvén Ionization in an MHD-Gas Interactions Code. [Data Collection]
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