Tim Harries Homepage

Welcome to Tim Harries' homepage. I am an Associate Professor in Astronomy at the School of Physics at the University of Exeter.

The TORUS radiation transfer code

Exeter is home to the 3-dimensional radiative-transfer code, TORUS, which is either an acronym for Transport of Radiation Under Sobolev, or Transport of Radiation Using Stokes.

The structure of circumstellar discs

TORUS uses an adaptive mesh refinement scheme and a Monte-Carlo method to solve for the radiative equilibrium, hydrostatic equilibrium, and dust sublimation in circumstellar discs around both low and high-mass pre-main-sequence stars.

Magnetospheric accretion: observations and models

We have both a modelling and observational programme into accretion flows onto pre-main-sequence stars and brown dwarfs.

Slab benchmark datacubes

Here are the slab benchmark data cubes for download.