MRI Project Publications

  1. H. Ji, J. Goodman, and A. Kageyama. "Magnetorotational Instability in a Rotating Liquid Metal Annulus", Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society 325 , L1 (2001). (pdf)

  2. J. Goodman and H. Ji. "Magnetorotational Instability of Dissipative Couette Flow", J. Fluid Mech. 462 , 365 (2002). (pdf)

  3. A. Kageyama, H. Ji, J. Goodman, F. Chen, and E. Shoshan. "Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Circulation in Short Cylinders", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 73, 2434 (2004). (pdf)

  4. H. Ji, J. Goodman, A. Kageyama, M. Burin, E. Schartman, and W. Liu, "Magnetorotational Instability in a Short Couette Flow of Liquid Gallium", AIP Proceedings 733, "MHD Couette Flows: Experiments and Models", p.21. (Int. Workshop in February , 2004 at Catania, Italy). (pdf)

  5. M. Burin, E. Schartman, H. Ji, R. Cutler, P. Heitzenroeder,  W. Liu, L. Morris, and S. Raftopolous, "Reduction of Ekman Circulation within Circular Couette Flow", Exp. Fluids 40, 962 (2006). (pdf)

  6. W. Liu, J. Goodman, and H. Ji, "Simulation of Magnetorotational Instability in a Magnetized Couette Flow", Astrophys. J. 643, 306 (2006). (pdf)

  7. I. Herron and J. Goodman, "The Small Magnetic Prandtl Number Approximation Suppresses Magnetorotattional Instability", Z. angew. Math. Phys. 57, 615 (2006). (pdf)

  8. I. Herron and F. Soliman, "The Stability of Couette Flow in a Toroidal Magnetic Field", App. Math. Lett. 19, 1113 (2006). (pdf)

  9. H. Ji, M. Burin, E. Schartman, and J. Goodman, "Hydrodynamic turbulence cannot transport angular momentum effectively in astrophysical disks", Nature 444, 343 (2006). (pdf, introduction by S. Balbus)

  10. W. Liu, J. Goodman, I. Herron, and H. Ji, "Helical magnetorotational instability in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow", Phys. Rev. E 74, 056302 (2006). (pdf)

  11. W. Liu, J. Goodman, and H. Ji, "Traveling waves in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow", Phys. Rev. E 76, 016310 (2007). (pdf)

  12. W. Liu, "Axisymmetric numerical and analytical studies of the magnetorotational instability in a magnetized Taylor-Couette flow", Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University (2007). (pdf)

  13. H. Ji, P. Kronberg, S. Prager, and D. Uzdensky, "Mini-conference on angular momentum transport in laboratory and nature", Phys. Plasmas 15, 058302 (2008). (pdf)

  14. W. Liu, "Magnetized Ekman layer and Stewartson layer in a magnetized Taylor-Couette flow", Phys. Rev. E. 77, 056314 (2008). (pdf)

  15. W. Liu, "Numerical study of the Magnetorotational Instability in Princeton MRI Experiment", Astrophys. J. 684, 515 (2008). (pdf)

  16. E. Schartman, "Laboratory study of angular momentum transport in a rotating shear flow", Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University (2008). (pdf)