Neal Turner, Ph.D.
| position: | visiting AvH-fellow |
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| office: | currently in Pasadena |
| email: | neil |
Research interests
Origins of the stars and planets; accretion flows; weakly-ionized astrophysical plasmas; numerical methods.
working on...
Heating and ionization of protostellar disks
Dust transport in protostellar disks during the assembly of the planets
Dispersal of the debris in the late stages of planet formation
Formation environments of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn
short CV
| 2005-present: | Staff scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology |
| 2003-2005: | National Research Council Fellowship |
| 2002-2003: | Research Associate, University of California Santa Barbara |
| 1999-2002: | Research Associate, University of Maryland College Park |
| 1992-1998: | Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz |
| 1991-1992: | Scientist, Kodak Australia Research Laboratory |
| 1987-1990: | Physics honours B.Sc., University of Sydney |
Publications
"Turbulence and Steady Flows in 3D Global Stratified MHD Simulations of Accretion Disks"; M. Flock, N. Dzyurkevich, H. Klahr, N. J. Turner, Th. Henning; 04/2011; ApJ accepted, arXiv: 1104.4565
Dust Transport in Protostellar Disks Through Turbulence and Settling. Turner N. J., Carballido A. & Sano T. 2010, Astrophys. J. 708, 188
Energetic Protons, Radionuclides, and Magnetic Activity in Protostellar Disks. Turner N. J. & Drake J. F. 2009, Astrophys. J. 703, 2152
Dead Zone Accretion Flows in Protostellar Disks. Turner N. J. & Sano T. 2008, Astrophys. J. Letters, 679, 131
Turbulent Mixing and the Dead Zone in Protostellar Disks. Turner N. J., Sano T. & Dziourkevitch N. 2007, Astrophys. J., 659, 729
On the Vertical Structure of Radiation-Dominated Accretion Disks. Turner N. J. 2004, Astrophys. J. Letters, 605, 45
Driving Outflows From Young Stars Through the Effects of Internal Disk Fields. Turner N. J., Bodenheimer P. & Rozyczka M. 1999, Astrophys. J., 524, 129.