Dr David MacTaggart

  • Senior Lecturer (Mathematics)

telephone: 01413306827
email: David.Mactaggart@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 417, School of Mathematics & Statistics, Mathematics Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312

Research interests

I am a member of the Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics group. I have a broad range of research interests in magnetohydrodynamics, including magnetic topology, magnetic instabilities, solar flux emergence and space weather. For more details, please consult my personal page.

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Publications

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Number of items: 54.

2025

Lindberg, S. and Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2025) Relative magnetic helicity under turbulent relaxation. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 66(4), 043102. (doi: 10.1063/5.0240037)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Williams, T. and Aslam, O.P.M. (2025) The magnetic topology of AR13664 leading to its first halo CME. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130(4), (doi: 10.1029/2024JA033462)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2025) On field line slippage rates in the solar corona. Solar Physics, 300(4), 48. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-025-02462-8) (PMID:40191039) (PMCID:PMC11971152)

Stanish, S. and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2025) On turbulent magnetic reconnection: fast and slow mean steady-states. Journal of Plasma Physics, (Accepted for Publication)

Aslam, O.P.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9521-3874, Mactaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Battiston, R., Potgieter, M.S. and Ngobeni, M.D. (2025) The source of the 2017 cosmic ray half-year modulation event. Astrophysical Journal, (Accepted for Publication)

Williamson, Thomas, Prior, Christopher B. and Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2025) Investigating the efficacy of topologically derived time series for flare forecasting. I. Data set preparation. Astrophysical Journal, 980(1), 102. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ada600)

Purgato, Marianna, Tedeschi, Federico, Riello, Marianna, Zaccoletti, Debora, Mediavilla, Roberto, Ayuso-Mateos, Josè Luis, Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Barbui, Corrado and Rusconi, Elena (2025) Effectiveness of Self-Help Plus in its digital version in reducing anxiety and post-traumatic symptomatology among nursing home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: secondary analysis of randomised controlled trial data. BMJ Mental Health, 28(1), e301379. (doi: 10.1136/bmjment-2024-301379) (PMID:40086806) (PMCID:PMC11906995)

2024

Aslam, O.P.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9521-3874, Mactaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Williams, T., Fletcher, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-7899 and Romano, P. (2024) Photospheric signatures of CME onset. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 534(1), pp. 444-454. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae2110)

Spelman, Tamsin A., Onah, Ifeanyi S., MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Stewart, Peter S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0971-8057 (2024) Elastic jump propagation across a blood vessel junction. Royal Society Open Science, 11(7), 232000. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.232000) (PMID:39021781) (PMCID:PMC11252672)

2023

Raphaldini, Breno, Dikpati, Mausumi, Norton, Aimee A., Teruya, Andre S. W., McIntosh, Scott W., Prior, Christopher B. and MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2023) Deciphering the pre-solar-storm features of the 2017 September storm from global and local dynamics. Astrophysical Journal, 958, 175. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acfef0)

Gupta, Parag, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Simitev, Radostin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2023) Differential rotation in convecting spherical shells with non-uniform viscosity and entropy diffusivity. Fluids, 8(11), 288. (doi: 10.3390/fluids8110288)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Valli, Alberto (2023) Relative magnetic helicity in multiply connected domains. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 56(43), 435701. (doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/acfd6c)

Alielden, K., MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Ming, Q., Prior, C. and Raphaldini, B. (2023) ARTop: an open-source tool for measuring active region topology at the solar photosphere. RAS Techniques and Instruments, 2(1), pp. 398-407. (doi: 10.1093/rasti/rzad029)

2022

Gupta, P., Simitev, R.D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2022) A study of global magnetic helicity in self-consistent spherical dynamos. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 116(5-6), pp. 521-536. (doi: 10.1080/03091929.2022.2137878)

Simitev, Radostin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Teed, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2831-3116 and Candelaresi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7666-8504 (2022) Introduction. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 116(4), pp. 235-236. (doi: 10.1080/03091929.2022.2107377)

Raphaldini, Breno, Prior, Christopher B. and Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2022) Magnetic winding as an indicator of flare activity in solar active regions. Astrophysical Journal, 927(2), 156. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4df9)

Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2022) Magnetic winding: theory and applications. In: Kuzanyan, Kirill (ed.) Helicities in Geophysics, Astrophysics and Beyond. AGU Books, Wiley. ISBN 9781119841685 (Accepted for Publication)

Faraco, Daniel, Lindberg, Sauli, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Valli, Alberto (2022) On the proof of Taylor’s conjecture in multiply connected domains. Applied Mathematics Letters, 124, 107654. (doi: 10.1016/j.aml.2021.107654)

2021

Candelaresi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7666-8504, Hornig, Gunnar, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Simitev, Radostin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2021) On self and mutual winding helicity. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 103, 106015. (doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2021.106015)

Riello, Marianna, Purgato, Marianna, Bove, Chiara, Tedeschi, Federico, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Barbui, Corrado and Rusconi, Elena (2021) Effectiveness of self-help plus (SH+) in reducing anxiety and post-traumatic symptomatology among care home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomized controlled trial. Royal Society Open Science, 8(11), 210219. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.210219)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Prior, C., Raphaldini, B., Romano, P. and Guglielmino, S.L. (2021) Direct evidence that twisted flux tube emergence creates solar active regions. Nature Communications, 12, 6621. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26981-7)

Quinn, James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0268-7032, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Simitev, Radostin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2021) Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and collapse of a twisted magnetic nullpoint with anisotropic viscosity. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 650(3), A143. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140460)

Mactaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Prior, C. (2021) Helicity and winding fluxes as indicators of twisted flux emergence. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 115(1), pp. 85-124. (doi: 10.1080/03091929.2020.1740925)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Prior, C. (2021) Magnetic winding – a key to unlocking topological complexity in flux emergence. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1730, 012013. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/1730/1/012013)

2020

Silva, Luis ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3421-0009, Gupta, Parag, Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Simitev, Radostin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2020) Effects of shell thickness on cross-helicity generation in convection-driven spherical dynamos. Fluids, 5(4), 245. (doi: 10.3390/fluids5040245)

Prior, C. and Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2020) Magnetic winding: what is it and what is it good for? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 476(2242), 20200483. (doi: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0483)

Quinn, James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0268-7032, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Simitev, Radostin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2020) The effect of anisotropic viscosity on the nonlinear MHD kink instability. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 83, 105131. (doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2019.105131)

Riello, Marianna, Purgato, Marianna, Bove, Chiara, Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Rusconi, Elena (2020) Prevalence of post-traumatic symptomatology and anxiety among residential nursing and care home workers following the first COVID-19 outbreak in Northern Italy. Royal Society Open Science, 7(9), 200880. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.200880) (PMID:33047047) (PMCID:PMC7540798)

2019

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Valli, A. (2019) Magnetic helicity in multiply connected domains. Journal of Plasma Physics, 85(5), 775850501. (doi: 10.1017/S0022377819000576)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Fletcher, Lyndsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-7899 (2019) The plasmoid instability in a confined solar flare. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(1), L96-L100. (doi: 10.1093/mnrasl/slz068)

Prior, C. and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2019) Interpreting magnetic helicity flux in solar flux emergence. Journal of Plasma Physics, 85(2), 775850201. (doi: 10.1017/S0022377819000229)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Hillier, Andrew (Eds.) (2019) Topics in Magnetohydrodynamic Topology, Reconnection and Stability Theory. Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences: courses and lectures. Springer: Cham. ISBN 9783030163426

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2019) The tearing instability of resistive magnetohydrodynamics. In: MacTaggart, David and Hillier, Andrew (eds.) Topics in Magnetohydrodynamic Topology, Reconnection and Stability Theory. Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences: courses and lectures (591). Springer: Cham, pp. 37-67. ISBN 9783030163426 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-16343-3_2)

2018

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2018) The non-modal onset of the tearing instability. Journal of Plasma Physics, 84(5), 905840501. (doi: 10.1017/S0022377818001009)

2017

Dacie, S., van Driel-Gesztelyi, L., Démoulin, P., Linton, M.G., Leake, J.E., MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Cheung, M.C.M. (2017) Field distribution of magnetograms from simulations of active region formation. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 606, A34. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730767)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Stewart, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0971-8057 (2017) Optimal energy growth in current sheets. Solar Physics, 292(10), 148. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-017-1177-1)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Vergori, L. and Quinn, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0268-7032 (2017) Braginskii magnetohydrodynamics for arbitrary magnetic topologies: coronal applications. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 826, pp. 615-635. (doi: 10.1017/jfm.2017.463)

Labrosse, N. et al. (2017) Preparing for the Journey: Supporting Students to Make Successful Transitions Into and Out of Taught Postgraduate Study. 10th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 30 Mar 2017.

Bownes, J. et al. (2017) Supporting students in the transition to postgraduate taught study in STEM subjects. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 5(2), pp. 3-11. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v5i2.280)

2016

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Guglielmino, Salvo L. and Zuccarello, Francesca (2016) The pre-penumbral magnetic canopy in the solar atmosphere. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 831(1), L4. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8205/831/1/L4)

Prior, C. and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2016) The emergence of braided magnetic fields. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 110(5), pp. 432-457. (doi: 10.1080/03091929.2016.1216552)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Gregory, Scott, Neukirch, Thomas and Donati, Jean-Francois (2016) Magnetohydrostatic modelling of stellar coronae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(1), pp. 767-774. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv2714)

2015

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Guglielmino, S.L., Haynes, A.L., Simitev, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 and Zuccarello, F. (2015) The magnetic structure of surges in small-scale emerging flux regions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 576(A4), (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201424646)

2014

Mactaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Haynes, A. L. (2014) On magnetic reconnection and flux rope topology in solar flux emergence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(2), pp. 1500-1506. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stt2285)

2013

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Elsheikh, A., McLaughlin, J.A. and Simitev, R.D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2013) Non-symmetric magnetohydrostatic equilibria: a multigrid approach. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 556, A40. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220458)

2012

McLaughlin, J. A., Thurgood, J. O. and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2012) On the periodicity of oscillatory reconnection. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 548, A98. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220234)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2012) Finite deformation in ideal magnetohydrodynamics. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 542, A97. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218785)

Hood, A. W., Archontis, V. and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2012) 3D MHD flux emergence experiments: idealised models and coronal interactions. Solar Physics, 278(1), pp. 3-31. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-011-9745-2)

Vargas Domínguez, S., MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Green, L., van Driel-Gesztelyi, L. and Hood, A. W. (2012) On signatures of twisted magnetic flux tube emergence. Solar Physics, 278(1), pp. 33-45. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-011-9789-3)

2011

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2011) Flux emergence within mature solar active regions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 531, A108. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117099)

2010

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Hood, Alan W. (2010) Simulating the “sliding doors” effect through magnetic flux emergence. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 716(2), L219-L222. (doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/716/2/L219)

2009

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Hood, A. W. (2009) Multiple eruptions from magnetic flux emergence. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 508(1), pp. 445-449. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913197)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Hood, A. W. (2009) On the emergence of toroidal flux tubes: general dynamics and comparisons with the cylinder model. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 507(2), pp. 995-1004. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912930)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Hood, A. W. (2009) Can magnetic breakout be achieved from multiple flux emergence? Astronomy and Astrophysics, 501(2), pp. 761-768. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911742)

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Articles

Lindberg, S. and Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2025) Relative magnetic helicity under turbulent relaxation. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 66(4), 043102. (doi: 10.1063/5.0240037)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Williams, T. and Aslam, O.P.M. (2025) The magnetic topology of AR13664 leading to its first halo CME. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130(4), (doi: 10.1029/2024JA033462)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2025) On field line slippage rates in the solar corona. Solar Physics, 300(4), 48. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-025-02462-8) (PMID:40191039) (PMCID:PMC11971152)

Stanish, S. and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2025) On turbulent magnetic reconnection: fast and slow mean steady-states. Journal of Plasma Physics, (Accepted for Publication)

Aslam, O.P.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9521-3874, Mactaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Battiston, R., Potgieter, M.S. and Ngobeni, M.D. (2025) The source of the 2017 cosmic ray half-year modulation event. Astrophysical Journal, (Accepted for Publication)

Williamson, Thomas, Prior, Christopher B. and Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2025) Investigating the efficacy of topologically derived time series for flare forecasting. I. Data set preparation. Astrophysical Journal, 980(1), 102. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ada600)

Purgato, Marianna, Tedeschi, Federico, Riello, Marianna, Zaccoletti, Debora, Mediavilla, Roberto, Ayuso-Mateos, Josè Luis, Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Barbui, Corrado and Rusconi, Elena (2025) Effectiveness of Self-Help Plus in its digital version in reducing anxiety and post-traumatic symptomatology among nursing home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: secondary analysis of randomised controlled trial data. BMJ Mental Health, 28(1), e301379. (doi: 10.1136/bmjment-2024-301379) (PMID:40086806) (PMCID:PMC11906995)

Aslam, O.P.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9521-3874, Mactaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Williams, T., Fletcher, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-7899 and Romano, P. (2024) Photospheric signatures of CME onset. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 534(1), pp. 444-454. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae2110)

Spelman, Tamsin A., Onah, Ifeanyi S., MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Stewart, Peter S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0971-8057 (2024) Elastic jump propagation across a blood vessel junction. Royal Society Open Science, 11(7), 232000. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.232000) (PMID:39021781) (PMCID:PMC11252672)

Raphaldini, Breno, Dikpati, Mausumi, Norton, Aimee A., Teruya, Andre S. W., McIntosh, Scott W., Prior, Christopher B. and MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2023) Deciphering the pre-solar-storm features of the 2017 September storm from global and local dynamics. Astrophysical Journal, 958, 175. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/acfef0)

Gupta, Parag, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Simitev, Radostin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2023) Differential rotation in convecting spherical shells with non-uniform viscosity and entropy diffusivity. Fluids, 8(11), 288. (doi: 10.3390/fluids8110288)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Valli, Alberto (2023) Relative magnetic helicity in multiply connected domains. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 56(43), 435701. (doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/acfd6c)

Alielden, K., MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Ming, Q., Prior, C. and Raphaldini, B. (2023) ARTop: an open-source tool for measuring active region topology at the solar photosphere. RAS Techniques and Instruments, 2(1), pp. 398-407. (doi: 10.1093/rasti/rzad029)

Gupta, P., Simitev, R.D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2022) A study of global magnetic helicity in self-consistent spherical dynamos. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 116(5-6), pp. 521-536. (doi: 10.1080/03091929.2022.2137878)

Simitev, Radostin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Teed, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2831-3116 and Candelaresi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7666-8504 (2022) Introduction. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 116(4), pp. 235-236. (doi: 10.1080/03091929.2022.2107377)

Raphaldini, Breno, Prior, Christopher B. and Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2022) Magnetic winding as an indicator of flare activity in solar active regions. Astrophysical Journal, 927(2), 156. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4df9)

Faraco, Daniel, Lindberg, Sauli, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Valli, Alberto (2022) On the proof of Taylor’s conjecture in multiply connected domains. Applied Mathematics Letters, 124, 107654. (doi: 10.1016/j.aml.2021.107654)

Candelaresi, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7666-8504, Hornig, Gunnar, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Simitev, Radostin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2021) On self and mutual winding helicity. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 103, 106015. (doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2021.106015)

Riello, Marianna, Purgato, Marianna, Bove, Chiara, Tedeschi, Federico, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Barbui, Corrado and Rusconi, Elena (2021) Effectiveness of self-help plus (SH+) in reducing anxiety and post-traumatic symptomatology among care home workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomized controlled trial. Royal Society Open Science, 8(11), 210219. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.210219)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Prior, C., Raphaldini, B., Romano, P. and Guglielmino, S.L. (2021) Direct evidence that twisted flux tube emergence creates solar active regions. Nature Communications, 12, 6621. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26981-7)

Quinn, James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0268-7032, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Simitev, Radostin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2021) Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and collapse of a twisted magnetic nullpoint with anisotropic viscosity. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 650(3), A143. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140460)

Mactaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Prior, C. (2021) Helicity and winding fluxes as indicators of twisted flux emergence. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 115(1), pp. 85-124. (doi: 10.1080/03091929.2020.1740925)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Prior, C. (2021) Magnetic winding – a key to unlocking topological complexity in flux emergence. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1730, 012013. (doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/1730/1/012013)

Silva, Luis ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3421-0009, Gupta, Parag, Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Simitev, Radostin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2020) Effects of shell thickness on cross-helicity generation in convection-driven spherical dynamos. Fluids, 5(4), 245. (doi: 10.3390/fluids5040245)

Prior, C. and Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2020) Magnetic winding: what is it and what is it good for? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 476(2242), 20200483. (doi: 10.1098/rspa.2020.0483)

Quinn, James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0268-7032, MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Simitev, Radostin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2020) The effect of anisotropic viscosity on the nonlinear MHD kink instability. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 83, 105131. (doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2019.105131)

Riello, Marianna, Purgato, Marianna, Bove, Chiara, Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Rusconi, Elena (2020) Prevalence of post-traumatic symptomatology and anxiety among residential nursing and care home workers following the first COVID-19 outbreak in Northern Italy. Royal Society Open Science, 7(9), 200880. (doi: 10.1098/rsos.200880) (PMID:33047047) (PMCID:PMC7540798)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Valli, A. (2019) Magnetic helicity in multiply connected domains. Journal of Plasma Physics, 85(5), 775850501. (doi: 10.1017/S0022377819000576)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Fletcher, Lyndsay ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-7899 (2019) The plasmoid instability in a confined solar flare. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(1), L96-L100. (doi: 10.1093/mnrasl/slz068)

Prior, C. and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2019) Interpreting magnetic helicity flux in solar flux emergence. Journal of Plasma Physics, 85(2), 775850201. (doi: 10.1017/S0022377819000229)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2018) The non-modal onset of the tearing instability. Journal of Plasma Physics, 84(5), 905840501. (doi: 10.1017/S0022377818001009)

Dacie, S., van Driel-Gesztelyi, L., Démoulin, P., Linton, M.G., Leake, J.E., MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Cheung, M.C.M. (2017) Field distribution of magnetograms from simulations of active region formation. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 606, A34. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730767)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Stewart, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0971-8057 (2017) Optimal energy growth in current sheets. Solar Physics, 292(10), 148. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-017-1177-1)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Vergori, L. and Quinn, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0268-7032 (2017) Braginskii magnetohydrodynamics for arbitrary magnetic topologies: coronal applications. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 826, pp. 615-635. (doi: 10.1017/jfm.2017.463)

Bownes, J. et al. (2017) Supporting students in the transition to postgraduate taught study in STEM subjects. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 5(2), pp. 3-11. (doi: 10.14297/jpaap.v5i2.280)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Guglielmino, Salvo L. and Zuccarello, Francesca (2016) The pre-penumbral magnetic canopy in the solar atmosphere. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 831(1), L4. (doi: 10.3847/2041-8205/831/1/L4)

Prior, C. and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2016) The emergence of braided magnetic fields. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 110(5), pp. 432-457. (doi: 10.1080/03091929.2016.1216552)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Gregory, Scott, Neukirch, Thomas and Donati, Jean-Francois (2016) Magnetohydrostatic modelling of stellar coronae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(1), pp. 767-774. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv2714)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Guglielmino, S.L., Haynes, A.L., Simitev, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 and Zuccarello, F. (2015) The magnetic structure of surges in small-scale emerging flux regions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 576(A4), (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201424646)

Mactaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Haynes, A. L. (2014) On magnetic reconnection and flux rope topology in solar flux emergence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(2), pp. 1500-1506. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stt2285)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Elsheikh, A., McLaughlin, J.A. and Simitev, R.D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-5789 (2013) Non-symmetric magnetohydrostatic equilibria: a multigrid approach. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 556, A40. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220458)

McLaughlin, J. A., Thurgood, J. O. and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2012) On the periodicity of oscillatory reconnection. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 548, A98. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220234)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2012) Finite deformation in ideal magnetohydrodynamics. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 542, A97. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218785)

Hood, A. W., Archontis, V. and MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2012) 3D MHD flux emergence experiments: idealised models and coronal interactions. Solar Physics, 278(1), pp. 3-31. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-011-9745-2)

Vargas Domínguez, S., MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312, Green, L., van Driel-Gesztelyi, L. and Hood, A. W. (2012) On signatures of twisted magnetic flux tube emergence. Solar Physics, 278(1), pp. 33-45. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-011-9789-3)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2011) Flux emergence within mature solar active regions. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 531, A108. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117099)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Hood, Alan W. (2010) Simulating the “sliding doors” effect through magnetic flux emergence. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 716(2), L219-L222. (doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/716/2/L219)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Hood, A. W. (2009) Multiple eruptions from magnetic flux emergence. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 508(1), pp. 445-449. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913197)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Hood, A. W. (2009) On the emergence of toroidal flux tubes: general dynamics and comparisons with the cylinder model. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 507(2), pp. 995-1004. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912930)

MacTaggart, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Hood, A. W. (2009) Can magnetic breakout be achieved from multiple flux emergence? Astronomy and Astrophysics, 501(2), pp. 761-768. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911742)

Book Sections

Mactaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2022) Magnetic winding: theory and applications. In: Kuzanyan, Kirill (ed.) Helicities in Geophysics, Astrophysics and Beyond. AGU Books, Wiley. ISBN 9781119841685 (Accepted for Publication)

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 (2019) The tearing instability of resistive magnetohydrodynamics. In: MacTaggart, David and Hillier, Andrew (eds.) Topics in Magnetohydrodynamic Topology, Reconnection and Stability Theory. Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences: courses and lectures (591). Springer: Cham, pp. 37-67. ISBN 9783030163426 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-16343-3_2)

Edited Books

MacTaggart, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-9312 and Hillier, Andrew (Eds.) (2019) Topics in Magnetohydrodynamic Topology, Reconnection and Stability Theory. Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences: courses and lectures. Springer: Cham. ISBN 9783030163426

Conference or Workshop Item

Labrosse, N. et al. (2017) Preparing for the Journey: Supporting Students to Make Successful Transitions Into and Out of Taught Postgraduate Study. 10th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 30 Mar 2017.

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Supervision

Research datasets

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Number of items: 6.

2024

Spelman, T., Onah, I. S., Mactaggart, D. and Stewart, P. (2024) Elastic jump propagation across a blood vessel junction. [Data Collection]

MacTaggart, D. and Ottupara, M. A. (2024) Photospheric signatures of CME-onset. [Data Collection]

2023

Gupta, P., Simitev, R. and Mactaggart, D. (2023) Differential Rotation in Convecting Spherical Shells with Non-Uniform Viscosity and Entropy Diffusivity. [Data Collection]

2022

Gupta, P., Simitev, R. and Mactaggart, D. (2022) A study of global magnetic helicity in self-consistent spherical dynamos. [Data Collection]

2021

Mactaggart, D. , Prior, C. , Raphaldini, B. , Romano, P. and Guglielmino, S. L. (2021) Direct evidence that twisted flux tube emergence creates solar active regions. [Data Collection]

2019

Quinn, J., Mactaggart, D. and Simitev, R. (2019) The Effect of Anisotropic Viscosity on the Nonlinear Kink Instability. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 07:05:38 2025 BST.