Staff Profile

Dr Toby Wood is a Reader in Applied Mathematics for the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at Newcastle University. His area of expertise is astrophysical fluid dynamics. 

Research Interests

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My research concerns the fluid dynamics of astrophysical objects, including the Sun and neutron stars.  My main interests are:

• Transport of angular momentum and magnetic flux by large-scale flows and turbulence.
• Instabilities and dynamos in plasmas.
• Electron & Hall MHD in neutron stars.
  
• Superfluidity and superconductivity.
  
• Chemical mixing by double-diffusive convection.
• Applications of Lagrangian mechanics in fluid dynamics.

Modules currently taught

• MAS3801/PHY3035 Methods for Differential Equations
• MAS3808/8808/PHY3047 Hydrodynamic and Climate Instabilities

• Articles

  • Liu I-K, Prasad SB, Baggaley AW, Barenghi CF, Wood TS. Vortex Depinning in a Two-Dimensional Superfluid. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 2024, 215, 376-396.
  • Hopper SJ, Wood TS, Bushby PJ. Stratified Resistive Tearing Instability. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2024. In Press.
  • Duguid CD, Bushby PJ, Wood TS. Shear-driven magnetic buoyancy in the solar tachocline: The mean electromotive force due to rotation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2023, 520(1), 527-541.
  • Moss JB, Wood TS, Bushby PJ. Self-adjointness of sound-proof models for magnetic buoyancy. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 2023, 117(4), 263-277.
  • Moss JB, Wood TS, Bushby PJ. Validity of sound-proof approximations for magnetic buoyancy. Physical Review Fluids 2022, 7(10), 103701.
  • De Grandis D, Turolla R, Taverna R, Lucchetta E, Wood TS, Zane S. Three-dimensional Magnetothermal Simulations of Magnetar Outbursts. Astrophysical Journal 2022, 936(2), 99.
  • Wood TS, Graber V. Superconducting Phases in Neutron Star Cores. Universe 2022, 8(4), 228.
  • Read JCA, Kaspiris-Rousellis C, Wood TS, Wu B, Vlaskamp BNS, Schor CM. Seeing the future: Predictive control in neural models of ocular accommodation. Journal of Vision 2022, 22(9), 4.
  • Day JR, Heidrich ES, Wood TS. A scalable model of fluid flow, substrate removal and current production in microbial fuel cells. Chemosphere 2022, 291(Part 1), 132686.
  • Snodin AP, Wood TS. A hybrid pseudo-incompressible–hydrostatic model. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2022, 936, A14.
  • De Grandis D, Taverna R, Turolla R, Gnarini A, Popov SB, Zane S, Wood TS. X-Ray Emission from Isolated Neutron Stars Revisited: 3D Magnetothermal Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal 2021, 914(2), 118.
  • Igoshev AP, Hollerbach R, Wood TS, Gourgouliatos KN. Strong toroidal magnetic fields required by quiescent X-ray emission of magnetars. Nature Astronomy 2021, 5, 145-149.
  • Seta A, Bushby PJ, Shukurov A, Wood TS. On the saturation mechanism of the fluctuation dynamo at Pr_M >= 1. Physical Review Fluids 2020, 5, 043702.
  • De Grandis D, Turolla R, Wood TS, Zane S, Taverna R, Gourgouliatos KN. 3D modelling of magneto-thermal evolution of neutron stars: method and test cases. The Astrophysical Journal 2020, 903(1), 40.
  • Wood TS, Mesgarnezhad M, Stagg GW, Barenghi CF. Quasiperiodic boundary conditions for three-dimensional superfluids. Physical Review B 2019, 100(2), 024505.
  • Seta A, Shukurov A, Wood TS, Bushby PJ, Snodin AP. Relative distribution of cosmic rays and magnetic fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018, 473(4), 4544-4557.
  • Wood TS, Brummell NH. A self-consistent model of the solar tachocline. Astrophysical Journal 2018, 853(2), 97.
  • Shukurov A, Snodin AP, Seta A, Bushby PJ, Wood TS. Cosmic rays in intermittent magnetic fields. Astrophysical Journal Letters 2017, 839(1), L16.
  • Wood TS, Bushby PJ. Oscillatory convection and limitations of the Boussinesq approximation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2016, 803, 502-515.
  • Gourgouliatos KN, Wood TS, Hollerbach R. Magnetic field evolution in magnetar crusts through three-dimensional simulations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016, 113(15), 3944-3949.
  • Wood TS, Hollerbach R, Lyutikov M. Density-shear instability in electron magneto-hydrodynamics. Physics of Plasmas 2014, 21, 052110.
  • Vasil GM, Lecoanet D, Brown BP, Wood TS, Zweibel EG. Energy conservation and gravity waves in sound-proof treatments of stellar interiors: III. Lagrangian constrained analysis. The Astrophysical Journal 2013, 773, 169.
  • Guervilly C, Wood TS, Brummell NH. Effect of metallic walls on dynamos generated by laminar boundary-driven flow in a spherical domain. Physical Review E 2013, 88(5), 053010.
  • Acevedo-Arreguin LA, Garaud P, Wood TS. Dynamics of the solar tachocline: III. Numerical solutions of the Gough and McIntyre model. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2013, 434, 720-741.
  • Wood TS, Garaud P, Stellmach S. A new model for mixing by double-diffusive convection (semi-convection): II. The transport of heat and composition through layers. The Astrophysical Journal 2013, 768(2), 157.
  • Wood TS, Brummell NH. Transport by meridional circulations in solar-type stars. The Astrophysical Journal 2012, 755, 99.
  • Mirouh GM, Garaud P, Stellmach S, Traxler AL, Wood TS. A new model for mixing by double-diffusive convection (semi-convection): I. The conditions for layer formation. The Astrophysical Journal 2012, 750, 61.
  • Wood TS, McCaslin JO, Garaud P. The Sun's meridional circulation and interior magnetic field. The Astrophysical Journal 2011, 738, 47.
  • Wood TS, McIntyre ME. Polar confinement of the Sun's interior magnetic field by laminar magnetostrophic flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2011, 677, 445-482.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • De Grandis D, Turolla R, Taverna R, Wood TS, Zane S. Modelling Magnetar Behaviour with 3D Magnetothermal Simulations. In: IAUS 363: Neutron Star Astrophysics at the Crossroads: Magnetars and the Multimessenger Revolution. 2021, Virtual: Cambridge University Press.

• Letter

  • Wood TS, Hollerbach R. Three Dimensional Simulation of the Magnetic Stress in a Neutron Star Crust. Physical Review Letters 2015, 144(19), 191101.