Publications across plasma physics, numerical methods, and astrophysics.

Multimaterial MHD	A constrained-transport embedded boundary method for compressible resistive magnetohydrodynamics S. W. Jones, C. P. McNally, M. Reynolds 2026, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 550, 1 April, 114641, arxiv:2601.04099
Plasmas for Fusion	Ion Temperature Inference from Neutron Counting in Maxwellian Deuterium Plasmas A. J. Radich, V. Grecu, P. J. F. Carle, M. Hildebrand, S. J. Howard, C. P. McNally, M. Reynolds, A. Rohollahi, R. E. Underwood, S. Weinstein 2026, Fusion Science and Technology, arXiv:2601.01566 ITG turbulence in gyrokinetic simulations of high collisionality spherical tokamak plasmas N. Kumar, G. Avdeeva, J. Candy, M. Reynolds, E. Belli, C.P. McNally 2025, Nuclear Fusion 65, 8, 086033 Thermal energy confinement time of spherical tokamak plasmas in PI3 A. Tancetti, C. Ribeiro, S.J. Howard, S. Coop, C.P. McNally, M. Reynolds, P. Kholodov, F. Braglia, R. Zindler, C. Macdonald 2025, Nuclear Fusion 65, 3, 036043 Measurement of spherical tokamak plasma compression in the PCS-16 magnetized target fusion experiment S.J. Howard, et al. (incl. C.P. McNally) 2025, Nuclear Fusion 65, 1, 016029 Boundary plasma studies for a spherical tokamak with lithium walls A. Antony, L. Carbajal, T.D. Rognlien, M.V. Umansky, A. Froese, S. Howard, C. Ribeiro, R. Ivanov, C. Dunlea, C.P. McNally 2025, Nuclear Materials and Energy, Volume 42, March, 101885
Polydisperse Streaming Instability	psitools: Python package for Polydisperse Streaming Instability linear stability calculations Polydisperse Streaming Instability I. Tightly coupled particles and the terminal velocity approximation S.-J. Paardekooper, C.P. McNally, F. Lovascio 2021, MNRAS 499, 3, p.4223-4238, arXiv:2010.01145 Polydisperse Streaming Instability II. Methods for solving the linear stability problem S.-J. Paardekooper, C.P. McNally, F. Lovascio 2021, MNRAS 502,2, p.1579-1595, arXiv:2101.04763 Polydisperse Streaming Instability III. Dust evolution encourages fast instability C.P. McNally, F. Lovascio, S.-J. Paardekooper 2021, MNRAS 502, 1, p.1469-1486, arXiv:2101.04761
Planet-Disk Interactions in Modern Models of Protoplanetary Disks	Dynamics of dusty vortices - II. Stability of 2D dust-laden vortices S.-J. Paardekooper, C.P. McNally, F. Lovascio 2022, MNRAS, 516, 2, p.1635-1643 Vertical settling of pebbles in turbulent circumbinary discs and the in situ formation of circumbinary planets A. Pierens, R.P. Nelson, C.P. McNally 2021, MNRAS, 508, 4, p.4806-4815 Low Mass planets in three dimensional wind-driven inviscid discs: A negative corotation torque C.P. McNally , R.P. Nelson, S.-J. Paardekooper, P. Benítez-Llambay, O. Gressel 2020, MNRAS, 493, 3, p.4328-4399 Hydrodynamical turbulence in eccentric circumbinary discs and its impact on the in situ formation of circumbinary planets A. Pierens, C.P. McNally, R.P. Nelson 2020, MNRAS, 496, 3, p.2849-2867 Low Mass planets in three dimensional wind-driven inviscid discs: A negative corotation torque C.P. McNally, R.P. Nelson, S.-J. Paardekooper, P. Benitez-LLambay, O. Gressel 2020, MNRAS, 493, 3, p.4382-4399 Low Mass planets in three dimensional wind-driven inviscid discs: A negative corotation torque - Animations Multiplanet systems in inviscid discs can avoid forming resonant chains C.P. McNally, R.P. Nelson, S.-J. Paardekooper 2019, MNRAS, 489, 1, L17-L21 Migrating super-Earths in low viscosity discs: unveiling the roles of feedback, vortices and laminar accretion flows C.P. McNally, R.P. Nelson, S.-J. Paardekooper, P. Benitez-LLambay 2019, MNRAS, 484, 1 How Planets Move in the Inner Disc, a conference talk. Animated figures and other bits for planet migration Low mass planet migration in magnetically torqued dead zones - II. Flow-locked and runaway migration, and a torque prescription C.P. McNally, R.P. Nelson, S.-J. Paardekooper 2018, MNRAS, 477, 4 Low mass planet migration in magnetically torqued dead zones I: Static migration torque C.P. McNally, R.P. Nelson, S.-J. Paardekooper, O. Gressel, W. Lyra 2017, MNRAS, 472, 2 Low mass planet migration in Hall-affected disks C.P. McNally, R.P. Nelson, S.-J. Paardekooper, O. Gressel, W. Lyra 2018, Proceedings of ASTRONUM-2017, JoPCS, 1031, 1 Orbital Advection with Magnetohydrodynamics and Vector Potential W. Lyra, C.P. McNally, T. Heinemann, F. Masset 2017, AJ, 154, 4 Publicly available in The Pencil Code
Photophoresis in Protoplanetary Disks	Photophoretic Levitation and Trapping of Dust in the Inner Regions of Protoplanetary Disks C.P. McNally, M.K. McClure 2017, ApJ, 834, 48 Photophoresis in a Dilute, Optically Thick Medium and Dust Motion in Protoplanetary Disks C.P. McNally, A. Hubbard 2015, ApJ, 814, 37 Some extra content on this topic
Local Disk Models	On Vertically Global, Horizontally Local Models for Astrophysical Disks C.P. McNally, M.E. Pessah 2015, ApJ, 811, 2, 121
Ambipolar Diffusion Dominated Disks	Global Simulations of Protoplanetary Disks with Ohmic Resistivity and Ambipolar Diffusion O. Gressel, N.J. Turner, R.P. Nelson, C.P. McNally 2015, ApJ, 801, 2, 18
Vorticies in Disks	Rossby wave instability does not require sharp resistivity gradients W. Lyra, N. Turner, C.P. McNally 2015, A&A, 574, id.A10
Current Sheets in Protoplanetary Disks	Temperature Fluctuations driven by Magnetorotational Instability in Protoplanetary Disks C.P. McNally, A. Hubbard, C.-C. Yang, M.-M. Mac Low 2014, ApJ, 791, 1, 62
Short-Circuit Instability	Mineral Processing by Short Circuits in Protoplanetary Disks C.P. McNally, A. Hubbard, M.-M. Mac Low, D.S. Ebel, P. D'Alessio 2013, ApJ, 767, L2 Short circuits in thermally ionized protoplanetary disks A. Hubbard, C.P. McNally, M.-M. Mac Low 2012, ApJ, 761, 58 Richard Kerr's piece in Science about this work Meteorite Mystery Edges Closer to an Answer? - Or the End of a Field Science 12 July 2013: Vol. 341 no. 6142 pp. 126-127 DOI: 10.1126/science.341.6142.126 Space.com story about this work
Lagrangian Methods for MHD	Phurbas - a Parallel Lagrangian Code for MHD Phurbas: An Adaptive, Lagrangian, Meshless, Magnetohydrodynamics Code. I. Algorithm J.L. Maron, C.P. McNally, M.-M. Mac Low 2012, ApJS, 200, 6 Phurbas: An Adaptive, Lagrangian, Meshless, Magnetohydrodynamics Code. II. Implementation and Tests C.P. McNally, J.L. Maron, M.-M. Mac Low 2012, ApJS, 200, 7 Ph.D. Thesis
Why KH Tests are Hard	Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability Test Page A Well-Posed Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability Test and Comparison C.P. McNally, W. Lyra, J.-C. Passy 2012, ApJS, 201, 18
Divergence-free Interpolation	Divergence-free interpolation of vector fields from point values - exact divB=0 in numerical simulations C.P. McNally 2011, MNRAS, 413, 1, L76-L80 A page with code accompanying the paper
Extended Galactic Disks	Angular Momentum Transport in Extended Galactic Disks C.P. McNally, J. Wadsley, H.M.P. Couchman 2009, ApJ, 697, L162 M.Sc. Thesis (PDF)

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