Dr Jack Reid

Honorary Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Email

jr93@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

305 MI

Location

Mathematical Institute

 

Biography

I am an applied mathematician at the University of St Andrews, conducting research in solar magnetohydrodynamics.

Research areas

In particular, my major areas of research are:

• the evolution of the Sun's global magnetic field;
• solar coronal heating via nanoflares;
• diagnosing the nature of 3D magnetic reconnection;
• propagation of MHD waves in braided magnetic fields and in stratified atmospheres.

For further information, please see my personal website.

Selected publications

• Open access

  Quantifying when and where strong magnetic skew forms in a data-driven global non-potential model of the solar corona I: production and persistence of skew

  Reid, J., Mackay, D. H. & Upton, L. A., 1 Sept 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542, 3, p. 2184-2210 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Self-consistent nanoflare heating in model active regions: MHD avalanches

  Reid, J., Threlfall, J. & Hood, A. W., 1 Jan 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518, 1, p. 1584-1600 17 p., stac3188.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Linking computational models to follow the evolution of heated coronal plasma

  Reid, J., Cargill, P., Johnston, C. D. & Hood, A. W., Aug 2021, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505, 3, p. 4141-4150 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Determining whether the squashing factor, Q, would be a good indicator of reconnection in a resistive MHD experiment devoid of null points

  Reid, J., Parnell, C. E., Hood, A. W. & Browning, P. K., 16 Jan 2020, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 633, 14 p., A92.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Coronal energy release by MHD avalanches: heating mechanisms

  Reid, J., Cargill, P., Hood, A. W., Parnell, C. E. & Arber, T. D., Jan 2020, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 633, 16 p., A158.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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