Jean-Pierre De Villiers, Research Associate

Email: jd5v@virginia.edu
Phone: (434) 924-4904
Fax: (434) 924-3104
Office: 106 Astronomy Building
Address:
   Department of Astronomy
   PO Box 3818
   Charlottesville, VA 22903

Curriculum Vitae: Ph.D., University of Alberta; NSERC Postdoc, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Presently:; Research Associate, University of Virginia

Research Interests (link to current work): Accretion Disks; Black Holes; Computational astrophysics; Numerical Methods; Star Formation

Jean-Pierre is working with Steve Balbus and John Hawley on numerical simulations of accretion disks around black holes.

Selected Recent Papers and Preprints


Magnetically Driven Accretion Flows in the Kerr Metric I: Models and Overall Structure, J-P. De Villiers, J.F. Hawley, and J.H. Krolik - PDF with high-res figures and movies

Global General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Accretion Tori, J-P. De Villiers and J.F. Hawley - PDF with high-res figures and movies

A Numerical Method for General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics, J-P. De Villiers and J.F. Hawley Web version (with animations)

Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Simulations of Accretion Tori in Kerr Spacetimes, J-P. De Villiers and J.F. Hawley
Web version (with animations)

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