Publications

As the most common, fundamental state of matter in the universe, plasmas are observed in a variety of phenomena, ranging from small-sized fusion experiments to gas clouds on stellar and interstellar scales. As a consequence, an assortment of models exists to describe plasma behaviour on different scales. Within each model the natural oscillations and instabilities supported by a particular plasma configuration can be studied to interpret the ...

Solar prominences are large, cool and dense loops, stretching out from the solar surface into the hot corona. Observations indicate that many arcades and loops throughout the solar atmosphere show omnipresent coronal rain and prominence fine structure. The local plasma conditions as realised in solar prominences and coronal rain showers are mediated by thermal instabilities, with runaway cooling effects characterising their rapid nonlinear ...