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Monash Centre for Astrophysics (MoCA)
and School of Mathematical Sciences,
Monash University,
Clayton,
Vic 3800
Australia
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Skype: danieljamesprice
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I will be lecturing on SPH at the IMPRS summer school on computational astrophysics in Heidelberg, Germany, Sep 10-14th, 2012.

20th March 2012: New Scientist Article on our recent paper - "Hungry black holes eat two courses at once"

Feb 2012: I will be lecturing on SPH at the ANITA/ASA numerical astrophysics summer school in Melbourne

I am currently offering several PhD/honours projects in computational astro.

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Links to collaborators:

Matthew Bate
Giuseppe Lodato
Chris Nixon
Christoph Federrath

Greetings. I am a Monash Research Fellow at the Monash Centre for Astrophysics (MoCA) in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to this I was a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Astrophysics group of the School of Physics at the University of Exeter (before which I also held a PPARC/STFC Postdoctoral Research fellowship at Exeter). I completed my PhD at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. It all started out with an honours year here at Monash. You should find some links in the sidebar to whatever it was that caused you to wander here in the first place. My research interests are broadly in Computational Astrophysics - see my research page, though generally involving Magnetohydrodynamics, Star Formation and the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. (In poetic form).

I am currently a member of the Editorial Board for PASA, the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Recent Publications

Price, Daniel J., Tricco, Terrence S., Bate Matthew R.; 2012, Collimated jets from the first core, accepted to MNRAS Letters (9th March 2012) (arXiv:1203.2933).

Nixon, Chris; King, Andrew R.; Price, Daniel J.; 2012, Rapid AGN accretion from counter-rotating discs, accepted to MNRAS (arXiv:1203.0008).

Recent paper: Laibe, Guillaume; Price, Daniel J.; 2011, Dusty gas in SPH: II - Implicit timestepping and astrophysical drag regimes, accepted to MNRAS (arXiv:1111.3089).

Recent paper: Laibe, Guillaume; Price, Daniel J.; 2011, Dusty gas in SPH: I - Algorithm and test suite, accepted to MNRAS (arXiv:1111.3090).

Price, D.J., 2011, Resolving high Reynolds numbers in SPH simulations of subsonic turbulence, accepted to MNRAS Letters 4th Nov 2011. (also at arXiv:1111.1255). This is mainly a direct response to Bauer and Springel's flamebait: arXiv:1109.4413v1.

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics is a pedagogical review and introduction to Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics I have written for J. Comp. Phys (also at arXiv:1012.1885). It is based on some lectures I gave at the ASTROSIM summer school in Torun, Poland, and coincides with the release of the NDSPMHD code.

Recent paper: "The density variance -- Mach number relation in supersonic, isothermal turbulence", accepted (13th Dec.) to ApJL.

Price, D.J., Federrath, C., 2010, A comparison between grid and particle methods on the statistics of driven, supersonic, isothermal turbulence. Accepted to MNRAS 8th Apr 2010.
Lodato, G., Price, D.J., 2010, On the diffusive propagation of warps in thin accretion discs, accepted to MNRAS Feb 2010

"Inefficient star formation: The combined effect of magnetic fields and radiative feedback", published in MNRAS. See the movies.