Mathematics & Statistics Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Some aspects of solar flare and prominence theory 

      Milne, Alexander Mitchell (University of St Andrews, 1980) - Thesis
      Solar flares and solar prominences are amongst the best known features of solar activity. Despite this familiarity, however, there are still significant gaps in our knowledge of these phenomena. In this thesis some theoretical ...

    • Magnetic neutral points and nonuniform reconnection 

      Strachan, N. R. (University of St Andrews, 1994) - Thesis
      Ever since the first recorded observation of a solar flare in September 1859, it has been a key question - for physics as a whole and for astrophsics in particular - to ask what mechanism lies behind the sudden, violent ...

    • Aspects of the MHD stability of coronal and laboratory plasmas 

      Clifford, Leo J. (University of St Andrews, 1993) - Thesis
      The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model is a simple mathematical model that treats a plasma as a perfectly conducting fluid acted upon by magnetic and pressure-driven forces. Many instabilities in plasmas can be predicted using ...

    • Ducted magnetoacoustic waves in the solar corona 

      Smith, Jason M. (University of St Andrews, 1997) - Thesis
      This thesis investigates the ducting of magnetoacoustic waves in coronal structures. The propagation of waves in current sheets and coronal loops has been examined in order to understand wave ducting in structured plasmas, ...

    • Polynomial generated polygons 

      Soares, Benedict J. (University of St Andrews, 1999) - Thesis
      A turtle geometric construction on the plane, called a polynomial generated polygon (PGP) and represented by 𝒫[sub]f,[sub]pᵐ, is generated from the sequence obtained from evaluating f(𝓍) ∈ ℤ [𝓍] over ℤ modulo pᵐ where ...