Publication list

See the ADS for a complete publication list including all conference proceedings.



Refereed Journal Publications and significant conference proceedings (marked CP)

----------------- 2024 -----------------

  • Garaud, P., Chini, C. P., Cope, L., Shah, K., and Caulfield, C. P., "Numerical validation of scaling laws for stratified turbulence", submitted to JFM Rapids, ( ArXiv Link )
  • Tulekeyev, A., Garaud, P., Idini, B. and Fortney, J., " Constraints on the long-term existence of dilute cores in giant planets ", submitted to the Planetary Science Journal.
  • K. Shah, G. P. Chini, C. P. Caulfield and P. Garaud, "Regimes of stratified turbulence at low Prandtl number", submitted to JFM. ( ADS Link )
  • A. Fraser, S. Reifenstein and P. Garaud, " Magnetized fingering convection in stars" , ApJ, 964, 184 ( IOP Link )
  • P. Garaud, S. Khan, J. M. Brown, " The combined effects of vertical and horizontal shear instabilities, ApJ, 961, id. 220 ( ADS Link )

----------------- 2022 -----------------

  • A. Fraser, I. Cresswell and P. Garaud, " Non-ideal instabilities in sinusoidal shear flows with a streamwise magnetic field ",JFM, 949, A43 ( ADS Link )
  • A. Sanghi, A. Fraser, E. Tian and P. Garaud, " Magnetized oscillatory double-diffusive convection ", ApJ, 935, id33 ( ADS Link )

----------------- 2021 -----------------

  • S. Nasab and P. Garaud, "Preferential concentration by mechanically-driven turbulence in the two-fluid formalism " Physical Review Fluids, 6, 104303 ( ArXiv Link )
  • E. Chang and P. Garaud, " Modeling coexisting GSF and shear instabilities in rotating stars " MNRAS, 506, 4914-4932 ( ArXiv link )
  • L. Korre, N. Brummell, P. Garaud, and C. Guervilly "On the dynamical interaction between overshooting convection and an underlying dipole magnetic field -- I. The non-dynamo regime ", MNRAS, 503, 362-375 ( ADS Link )
  • P. Garaud, "Journey to the center of stars: the realm of low Prandtl number fluid dynamics", invited review, Physical Review Fluids, 6, 030501 ( ArXiv link )

----------------- 2020 -----------------

  • P. Garaud, "Horizontal shear instabilities at low Prandtl number", ApJ, 901, 146 ( ArXiv link ).
  • P. Garaud, "The tachocline revisited", invited review for the meeting Dynamics of the Sun and Stars: Honoring the Life and Work of Michael J. Thompson (Boulder, Colorado, 24-26 September 2019). ( arXiv link ).
  • S. Nasab and P. Garaud, "Preferential concentration in the particle-induced convective instability", Phys. Rev. Fluids, 5, 114308 ( ArXiv link )
  • L. Cope, P. Garaud and C. P. Caulfield, " The dynamics of stratified horizontal shear flows at low Peclet number , JFM, 903, A1 ( JFM link)
  • R. Ouillon, P. Edel, P. Garaud and E. Meiburg, "Settling-driven large-scale instabilities in double-diffusive convection", JFM, 901, A12 ( ADS link )
  • A. Kumar and P. Garaud, "Bounds on the drag coefficient for a flat plat in a uniform flow", J. Fluid Mech., 900, A6 ( JFM link )
  • P. Garaud, "Double-diffusive processes in stellar astrophysics" , lecture notes from the school on "Multi-Dimensional Processesin Stellar Physics", EDP Sciences ( ArXiv link )

----------------- 2019 -----------------

  • P. Garaud, A. Kumar and J. Sridhar, "The interaction between shear and fingering (thermohaline) convection ", ApJ, 879, 60 ( ADS link )
  • J. Schwab and P. Garaud, " Mixing via Thermocompositional Convection in Hybrid C/O/Ne White Dwarfs ", ApJ, 876, 10 ( ADS link )
  • L. Korre, P. Garaud and N. Brummell, " Convective overshooting and penetration in a Boussinesq spherical shell", MNRAS, 484, 1220 (ADS link)
  • P. Harrington and P. Garaud " Enhanced mixing in magnetized fingering convection, and implications for RGB stars", ApJ Letters, 870, L5 (ADS link)
    • This article was featured in the AAS NOVA
    • ERRATUM: in equations 20-22, the term in (1/rho) should not have been squared. The prefactors are however correct.

----------------- 2018 -----------------

  • S. Sengupta and P. Garaud, "The effect of rotation on fingering convection", ApJ 862, 136 (ADS link)
  • L. Kulenthirarajah and P. Garaud, "Turbulent transport by diffusive stratified shear flows: from local to global models. Part III: A closure model", ApJ 864, 107, ( ADS link )
  • D. Gagnier and P. Garaud, "Turbulent transport by diffusive stratified shear flows: from local to global models. Part II: The failure of local models", ApJ 862, 36, ( ADS link )
  • P. Garaud, "Double-diffusive convection at low Prandtl number", Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 50, ( ARFM link )

----------------- 2017 -----------------

  • R. Moll, P. Garaud, C. Mankovich, and J. Fortney, 2017, "Double-diffusive erosion of the core of Jupiter", ApJ, 849, 24 ( ADS link)
  • L. Korre, N. Brummell and P. Garaud, 2017, "Weakly compressible convection in a gaseous spherical shell", Phys. Rev. E., 96, 033104(ADS link)
  • A. Alsinan, E. Meiburg, and P. Garaud, 2017, "A settling-driven instability in two-component, stably stratified fluids", JFM, 816, 243-267 (JFM link)
  • P. Garaud, D. Gagnier, and J. Verhoeven, 2017, "Turbulent transport by diffusive stratified shear flows: from local to global models. Part I: Numerical simulations of a stratified plane Couette flow", ApJ, 837, 133 (ADS link)
  • J. Reali, P. Garaud, A. Alsinan and E. Meiburg, 2017, "Layer formation in sedimentary fingering convection", JFM, 816, 268-305, (JFM link)
  • R. Moll and P. Garaud, 2017, "The effect of rotation on oscillatory double-diffusive convection (semiconvection)", ApJ, 834, 44 (ADS link)
  • (Invited commentary, not refereed) P. Garaud, 2017, "The formation of diffusive staircases", Focus on Fluids, (Journal link)

----------------- 2016 -----------------

  • P. Garaud and L. Kulenthirarajah, 2016, "Turbulent transport in a strongly stratified forced shear layer with thermal diffusion", ApJ, 821, 49 (ADS Link)
  • R. Moll, P. Garaud and S. Stellmach, 2016, "A new model for mixing by double-diffusive convection (semi-convection) III. Thermal and compositional transport through non-layered ODDC", ApJ, 823, 33 (ADS Link)
  • K. Moore and P. Garaud, 2016, "Main Sequence evolution with layered semiconvection", ApJ, 817, 54. (ADS Link)

----------------- 2015 -----------------

  • P. Garaud and N. Brummell, 2015, "2D or not 2D: the effect of dimensionality on the dynamics of fingering convection at low Prandtl number", ApJ, 815, 42, (ADS Link)
  • P. Garaud, B. Gallet and T. Bischoff, 2015, "The stability of stratified spatially periodic shear flows at low Peclet number", Physics of Fluids, 27, id.084104 (ADS Link)
  • P. Garaud, M. Medrano, C. Mankovich, J. Brown, K. Moore, 2015, "Excitation of gravity waves by fingering convection, and the formation of compositional staircases in stellar interiors", ApJ, 808, 89 (ADS Link)

----------------- 2014 -----------------

  • V. Zemskova, P. Garaud, M. Deal and S. Vauclair, 2014, "Fingering convection induced by atomic diffusion in stars: 3D numerical computations and applications to stellar models", ApJ, 795, 118 (ADS Link)
  • M. Medrano, P. Garaud, and S. Stellmach, 2014, "Double-diffusive mixing in stellar interiors in the presence of horizontal gradients", ApJ, 792, L30 (ADS Link)

----------------- 2013 -----------------

  • CP: P. Garaud, 2013, "Double-diffusive convection", EAS Publication Series, 63, pp. 285-295, (ADS Link)
  • R. L. F. Oglethorpe and P. Garaud, 2013, "Spin-down dynamics of magnetized solar-type stars", ApJ, 778, 166 (ADS Link)
  • L. A. Acevedo-Arreguin, P. Garaud and T.S. Wood, 2013, "Dynamics of the solar tachocline III : Numerical solutions of the Gough and McIntyre Model", MNRAS, 434, 720 (ADS link)
  • J. Brown, P. Garaud and S. Stellmach, 2013, "Chemical Transport and Spontaneous Layer Formation in Fingering Convection in Astrophysics", ApJ, 768, 34 (ADS link)
  • T. S. Wood, P. Garaud and S. Stellmach, 2013, " A new model for mixing by double-diffusive convection (semi-convection). II. The transport of heat and composition through layers", ApJ, 768, 157 (ADS link)
  • P. Garaud, F. Meru, M. Galvagni, and C. Olczak, 2013, "From dust to planetesimals: an improved model for collisional growth in protoplanetary disks", ApJ, 764, 146 (ADS link)

----------------- 2012 -----------------

  • G. Mirouh, P. Garaud, S. Stellmach, A. Traxler and T. Wood, 2012. "A new model for mixing by double-diffusive convection (semi-convection): I. The conditions for layer formation", ApJ, 750, 61 (ADS link)
    • Erratum: The caption of Figure 3 should read "Temporal evolution of NuT" instead of the turbulent heat flux.
    • Erratum: The Formula in equation (32) should have 2kn in the denominator instead of 2n, where kn is the wavenumber of the layering mode

----------------- 2011 -----------------

  • T. Wood, J. McCaslin, & P. Garaud, 2011. "The Sun's Meridional Circulation and Interior Magnetic Field", ApJ, 738, 47 (ADS Link)
  • A. Traxler, S. Stellmach, P. Garaud, T. Radko & N. Brummell, 2011. "Dynamics of fingering convection I: small-scale fluxes and large-scale instabilities", JFM, 677, 530 (ADS Link)
  • S. Stellmach, A. Traxler, P. Garaud, N. Brummell & T. Radko, 2011. "Dynamics of fingering convection II: the formation of thermohaline staircases", JFM, 677, 554 (ADS Link)
  • E. Rosenblum, P. Garaud, A. Traxler & S. Stellmach, 2011. "Turbulent mixing and layer formation in double-diffusive convection: 3D numerical simulations and theory", ApJ, 731, 66 (ADS link)
  • A. Traxler, P. Garaud, & S. Stellmach, 2011. "Numerically determined transportlaws for fingering ("thermohaline") convection in astrophysics", ApJ, 728, L29, (ADS link)
  • P. Garaud, 2011. "What happened to the other Mohicans? The case for a primordial origin to the planet-metallicity connection", ApJ, 728, L30 (ADS link)

----------------- 2010 -----------------

  • P. Garaud, G. I. Ogilvie, N. Miller & S. Stellmach. "A model of the entropy flux and Reynolds stress in turbulent convection.", 2010, MNRAS, 407, 2451-2467 (ADS link)
    • ERRATUM: In equation (23), the term u'i partialj Fi on the rhs should have been u'i partialj F j
  • P. Garaud & P. Bodenheimer. "Gyroscopic pumping of large-scale flows in stellar interiors, and application to Lithium Dip stars", 2010, ApJ, 719, 313-334 (ADS link)

----------------- 2009 -----------------

  • K. Kretke, D.N.C. Lin, P. Garaud & N. Turner, 2009. "Assembling the building blocks of giant planets around intermediate-mass stars", ApJ, 690, 407 (ADS link)
  • P. Garaud & C. Guervilly, 2009. "The rotation rate of the solar radiative zone", ApJ, 695, 799 (ADS link)
  • P. Garaud & L. Acevedo-Arreguin, 2009. "On the Penetration of Meridional Circulation below the Solar Convection Zone II: Models with Convection Zone, the Taylor-Proudman constraint and Applications to Other Stars.", ApJ, 704, 1-16 (ADS link)

----------------- 2008 -----------------

  • P. Garaud & N. H. Brummell, 2008. "On the penetration of meridional circulation below the solar convection zone", ApJ, 674, 498 (ADS link)
    • Erratum: typo in equation (30). d2u/ dy2dz2 should of course be d4u/ dy2dz2
  • P. Garaud & J.-D. Garaud, 2008. "Dynamics of the solar tachocline II: the stratified case", MNRAS, 391, 1239-1258 (ADS link)
    • Erratum: typo in the last equation of (C4) in the Appendix (for J). T2n-1 should be T2n-2.

----------------- 2007 -----------------

  • P. Garaud & D.N.C. Lin, 2007. "The effect of internal dissipation and surface irradiation on the structure of disks and the location of the snow line around Sun-like stars", ApJ, 654, 606-624 (ADS link)
  • P. Garaud, 2007. "Growth and migration of solids in evolving protostellar disks I: Methods and Analytical tests", ApJ, 671, 209 (ADS link)
    • Erratum: typo in equation (76). dMp/dt should be dMp/dT.
  • P. Garaud, 2007. "Constraints on angular momentum transport in the Sun from simulations of the tachocline", Astronomische Nachricthen, 328, 1146-1149. Special edition for the proceedings of the 5th Potsdam Thinkshop on Meridional Flows, Differential Rotation, and Solar and Stellar Activity, (ADS link)

----------------- 2006 and earlier -----------------

  • P. Garaud & G. I. Ogilvie, 2005. "A model for the nonlinear dynamics of turbulent shear flows ", JFM, 530, 145-176 (ADS link)
  • P. Garaud, L. Barriere-Fouchet, D. N. C. Lin, 2004. "Individual and collective behavior of dust particles in a protoplanetary nebula", ApJ, 603, 292-306 (ADS link)
  • P. Garaud & D.N.C. Lin, 2004. " On the evolution and stability of a protoplanetary disk dust layer", ApJ, 608, 1050-1075 (ADS link)
  • P. Garaud, 2002. "On rotationally driven meridional flows in stars", MNRAS, 335, 707-711 (ADS link)
  • P. Garaud, 2002. "Dynamics of the solar tachocline: an incompressible study", MNRAS, 329, 1-17 (ADS link)
  • P. Garaud, 2001. "Latitudinal shear instability in the solar tachocline", MNRAS, 324, 68-76 (ADS link)
  • P. Garaud, 1999. "Propagation of a dynamo field in the solar interior", MNRAS, 304, 583-588 (ADS link)



Book Chapters

  • "Dynamics of the solar tachocline", Garaud, P., 2003, in Stellar Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, ed. M.J. Thompson & J. Christensen Dalsgaard, Cambridge University Press (download pdf)
  • "Magnetic confinement of the solar tachocline" , P. Garaud, 2007 , in "The Solar Tachocline", Chapter 9, eds D. W. Hughes, R. Rosner and N. O. Weiss, Cambridge University Press (download pdf)



Technical Reports

  • "A Friendly and Free Parallel Block-Tridiagonal solver: User Manual.", by P. Garaud & J.-D. Garaud, 2007. (download pdf)
  • "A Friendly and Free Parallel 2-point ODE solver: User Manual.", by L. Acevedo-Arreguin, P. Garaud, & J.-D. Garaud 2010. (download pdf)



PHD Thesis

  • "Dynamics of the solar tachocline", P. Garaud, PhD Thesis, Cambridge University, April 2001 (download pdf).