Professor Declan Diver

Professor of Plasma Physics (Physics & Astronomy)

telephone: 01413305686
email: Declan.Diver@glasgow.ac.uk

R606 Level 6, Physics & Astronomy, Kelvin Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Research interests

Personal webpage: http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/?p=157

My primary rsearch interest is in the physics of plasmas, particularly theory and numerical simulations of fluid and kinetic plasmas, and imperfectly ionised low-temperature technological plasmas. Specific topics of interest are as follows: LOW TEMPERATURE PLASMAS: electron avalanches, ionization waves, metastable excitation, streamer formation, surface modification; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMAS: dielectric barrier discharges in air, sprites and energetic particle beam formation above thunderclouds via atmospheric electrostatics; PLASMAS AND DUST: charging and growth of dust particles in plasmas, including aerosols (liquid droplets), and modification of ambient neutral gas by grain discharges and/or surface catalysis via electron-moderated plasma chemistry. FLUID PLASMAS: MHD plasma - neutral gas momentum coupling, magnetic evolution in cosmological plasmas Ferrofluids: suspension and control of ferrofluid droplets against gravity. SOLAR PLASMAS: solar surface flows and the interaction with magnetic elements; ionising flows and critical ionization speeds. RELATIVISTIC PLASMAS: pair plasma kinetic theory, including Bernstein mode analysis and relativistic Landau damping; radiation coupling to, and damping of, electrostatic oscillations and waves in pulsar atmospheres;

researcherID: E-6672-2010

Publications

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Number of items: 71.

2025

Pajak-Zajac, Malgorzata Z., Dowdell, Adam, Potts, Hugh E., Smith, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0580-4078 and Diver, Declan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2025) Drain decontamination using in-situ generated ozone. Journal of Hospital Infection, 159, pp. 100-105. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2025.02.001) (PMID:39961510)

Stark, C.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682, Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Swayne, M.I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2609-3159 (2025) Electrostatic instability of non-spherical dust in sub-stellar clouds. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 67, 025016. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6587/ada1fb)

2024

Hudson, Hugh S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5685-1283, Cliver, Edward W., Fletcher, Lyndsay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-7899, Diver, Declan A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020, Gallagher, Peter T., Li, Ying, Osborne, Christopher M.J., Stark, Craig ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682 and Su, Yang (2024) An impulsive geomagnetic effect from an early-impulsive flare. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(3), pp. 3120-3125. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae1720)

2022

Stark, Craig R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682 and Diver, Declan A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2022) Evaluating the stability of numerical schemes for fluid solvers in game technology. International Journal of Computer Games Technology, 2022, 4138315. (doi: 10.1155/2022/4138315)

2020

Stark, C.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682 and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2020) Evolution of spheroidal dust in electrically active sub-stellar atmospheres. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 644, A131. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202037589)

2019

Wilson, A.D., Dobbs-Dixon, I., Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Stark, C.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682 (2019) Critical velocity ionization in substellar atmospheres. Astrophysical Journal, 887(2), 138. (doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab5800)

2018

Stark, C.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682 and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2018) Dust cloud evolution in sub-stellar atmospheres via plasma deposition and plasma sputtering. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 611, A91. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731253)

2017

Wilson, A.D. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2017) Ionization fronts in coupled MHD-gas simulations. Physics of Plasmas, 24(9), 092112. (doi: 10.1063/1.5001083)

Maguire, Paul, Rutherford, David, Macias-Montero, Manuel, Mahony, Charles, Kelsey, Colin, Tweedie, Mark, Pérez-Martin, Fátima, McQuaid, Harold, Diver, Declan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Mariotti, Davide (2017) Continuous in-flight synthesis for on-demand delivery of ligand-free colloidal gold nanoparticles. Nano Letters, 17(3), pp. 1336-1343. (doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03440) (PMID:28139927)

2016

Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Laing, E.W. (2016) Modelling nonlinear electrostatic oscillations in plasmas. Physics of Plasmas, 23(12), 122103. (doi: 10.1063/1.4968520)

Bennet, E.D. et al. (2016) Precision charging of microparticles in plasma via the Rayleigh instability for evaporating charged liquid droplets. Journal of Aerosol Science, 100, pp. 53-60. (doi: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2016.05.002)

Wilson, A.D. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2016) Alfvén ionization in an MHD-gas interactions code. Physics of Plasmas, 23(7), 072117. (doi: 10.1063/1.4956443)

Helling, Christiane, Harrison, R. Giles, Honary, Farideh, Diver, Declan A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020, Aplin, Karen, Dobbs-Dixon, Ian, Ebert, Ute, Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro, Gordillo-Vazquez, Francisco J. and Littlefair, Stuart (2016) Atmospheric electrification in dusty, reactive gases in the solar system and beyond. Surveys in Geophysics, 37(4), pp. 705-756. (doi: 10.1007/s10712-016-9361-7)

2015

Stark, C.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682, Helling, C. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2015) Inhomogeneous cloud coverage through the Coulomb explosion of dust in substellar atmospheres. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 579, A41. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526045)

Maguire, P. D. et al. (2015) Controlled microdroplet transport in an atmospheric pressure microplasma. Applied Physics Letters, 106(22), 224101. (doi: 10.1063/1.4922034)

Diver, Declan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Laing, Ernest (2015) Scale-lengths and instabilities in magnetized classical and relativistic plasma fluid models. Physica Scripta, 90(2), 025602. (doi: 10.1088/0031-8949/90/2/025602)

2014

Bennet, Euan D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9049-1920, Potts, Hugh E., Teodoro, Luis F.A. and Diver, Declan A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2014) Electron acceleration by magnetic collapse during decoupling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445(2), pp. 1521-1525. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu1857)

Stark, C.R., Helling, C., Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Rimmer, P.B. (2014) Electrostatic activation of prebiotic chemistry in substellar atmospheres. International Journal of Astrobiology, 13(2), pp. 165-172. (doi: 10.1017/S1473550413000475)

2013

Stark, C.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682, Helling, Ch., Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Rimmer, P.B. (2013) Ionization in atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets V. Alfvén ionization. Astrophysical Journal, 776(1), pp. 1-20. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/776/1/11)

Füllekrug, M. et al. (2013) Electron acceleration above thunderclouds. Environmental Research Letters, 8(3), 035027. (doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/035027)

Laing, E W and Diver, D A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2013) Ultra-relativistic electrostatic Bernstein waves. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 55(6), 065006. (doi: 10.1088/0741-3335/55/6/065006)

Helling, Ch., Jardine, M., Stark, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682 and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2013) Ionization in atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets. III. breakdown conditions for mineral clouds. Astrophysical Journal, 767(2), p. 136. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/767/2/136)

Helling, Christiane, Jardine, Moira, Diver, Declan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Witte, Soren (2013) Dust cloud lightning in extraterrestrial atmospheres. Planetary and Space Science, 77, pp. 152-157. (doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.07.003)

MacLachlan, C S, Potts, H E and Diver, D A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2013) Simulation of transient energy distributions in sub-ns streamer formation. Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 22(1), Art. 015025. (doi: 10.1088/0963-0252/22/1/015025)

Füllekrug, M. et al. (2013) Energetic charged particles above thunderclouds. Surveys in Geophysics, 34(1), pp. 1-41. (doi: 10.1007/s10712-012-9205-z)

Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Alharbi, M. (2013) Dust growth in magnetised plasmas. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,

Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020, Fullekrug, M., Helling, C., Stark, C.R. and Wilson, A. (2013) Ionization and charging in dusty atmospheres. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,

Helling, C, Jardine, M, Stark, C.R., Rimmer, P. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2013) Mineral clouds and ionisation processes in extrasolar, planetary atmospheres. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,

Stark, C.R., Helling, C., Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Rimmer, P.B. (2013) Alfvén ionization in exoplanetary atmospheres. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013, p. 706.

Stark, C.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682, Helling, C., Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Rimmer, P.B. (2013) Alfvén ionization in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs. Societa Astronomica Italiana, Memorie, 84, p. 1132.

Wilson, A. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2013) Ionization in MHD-Gas interactions. In: European Planetary Science Congress 2013, London, UK, 8-13 Sep 2013,

2011

Potts, H.E., Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020, Everest, P.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6727-8048 and O'Connor, R.D. (2011) Plasma Decontamination of Sealed Packages. In: 30th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG 2011), Belfast, UK, 28 Aug - 02 Sep 2011,

da Costa, A., Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020, Laing, E.W., Stark, C.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682 and Teodoro, L.F.A. (2011) Pulsar electrodynamics: Relativistic kinetic theory of radiative plasmas-collective phenomena and their radiation. Physical Review D, 83(2), 023013. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.023013)

Helling, C., Jardine, M., Diver, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Witte, S. (2011) Electrification events in mineral clouds of planetary atmospheres. In: Extreme Solar Systems Meeting II (ESSII), Moran, WY, USA, 11-17 Sep 2011,

Helling, C., Jardine, M., Witte, S. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2011) Extraterrestrial lightning in atmospheric dust clouds. In: EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, Nantes, France, 2-7 Oct 2011, p. 8.

Helling, C., Jardine, M., Witte, S. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2011) Ionization in atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets. i. The role of electron avalanche. Astrophysical Journal, 727(1), p. 4. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/727/1/4)

2010

Potts, H., Hudson, H.S., Fletcher, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-7899 and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2010) The optical depth of white-light flare continuum. Astrophysical Journal, 722(2), pp. 1514-1521. (doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1514)

Diver, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020, da Costa, A., Laing, E., Stark, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682 and Teodoro, L. (2010) On the surface extraction of electrons in a pulsar. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 401(1), pp. 613-620. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15684.x)

2009

0919274.1 (2009) Plasma Generation Apparatus and use of Plasma Generation Apparatus. .

Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. (2009) A repository of precision flat fields for high-resolution mdi continuum data. Solar Physics, 258(2), pp. 343-351. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-009-9408-8)

MacLachlan, C.S., Diver, D.A. and Potts, H.E. (2009) The evolution of electron overdensities in magnetic fields. New Journal of Physics, 11(6), 063001. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/6/063001)

Diver, D.A. and Laing, E.W. (2009) Similarity theory of nonlinear cold pair-plasma dynamics. Physics of Plasmas, 16(092301), (doi: 10.1063/1.3216545)

2008

Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2008) Post-hoc derivation of SOHO Michelson doppler imager flat fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 492(3), pp. 863-871. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:200810606)

Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2008) Automatic recognition and characterisation of supergranular cells from photospheric velocity fields. Solar Physics, 248(2), pp. 263-275. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-007-9068-5)

Teodoro, L.F.A., Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Hendry, M.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8322-5405 (2008) A cautionary note on cosmological magnetic fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 383(1), L35-L39. (doi: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00406.x)

Diver, D.A. and Teodoro, L.F.A. (2008) Unplugging the universe: the neglected electromagnetic consequence of decoupling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 385(1), L73-L77. (doi: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2008.00436.x)

2007

Stark, C.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682, Diver, D.A., da Costa, A.A. and Laing, E.W. (2007) Nonlinear mode coupling in pair plasmas. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 476(1), pp. 17-30. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20077988)

Potts, H.E., Khan, J. and Diver, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2007) Small scale energy release driven by supergranular flows on the quiet Sun. Solar Physics, 245(1), pp. 55-68. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-007-9021-7)

Shapiro, B., Probst, R., Potts, H.E., Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and Lubbe, A. (2007) Control to concentrate drug-coated magnetic particles to deep-tissue tumors for targeted cancer chemotherapy. In: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, USA, 12-14 Dec 2007, pp. 3901-3906. (doi: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4434844)

2006

Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020, Potts, H.E. and Teodoro, L.F.A. (2006) Gas-plasma compressional wave coupling by momentum transfer. New Journal of Physics, 8(11), pp. 265-279. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/8/11/265)

Stark, C.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682, Potts, H.E. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2006) Elliptical dust growth in astrophysical plasmas. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 457(2), pp. 365-370. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20064922)

Laing, E.W. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2006) Relativistic Landau damping of longitudinal waves in isotropic pair plasmas. Physics of Plasmas, 13(9), 092115. (doi: 10.1063/1.2353901)

Stark, C.R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4587-6682, Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 and da Costa, A.A. (2006) Magnetized electron-positron plasmas. In: WE-Heraeus Seminar on: Neutron Stars and Pulsars, Bad Honnef, Germany, 14-19 May 2006, pp. 145-148.

2005

Laing, E.W. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2005) On damped Bernstein modes in a weakly relativistic pair plasma. Physical Review E, 72(3), 036409. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.036409)

Diver, D.A., Fletcher, L. and Potts, H.E. (2005) Fip enhancement by Alfven ionization. Solar Physics, 227(2), pp. 207-215. (doi: 10.1007/s11207-005-2447-x)

2004

Potts, H.E., Barrett, R.K. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2004) Balltracking: an highly efficient method for tracking flow fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 424(1), pp. 253-262. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20035891)

2003

Potts, H.E., Barrett, R.K. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2003) Reduction of interpolation errors when using local correlation tracking for motion detection. Solar Physics, 217(1), 69 -78. (doi: 10.1023/A:1027322016500)

Dowds, B.J.P., Barrett, R.K. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2003) Streamer initiation in atmospheric pressure gas discharges by direct particle simulation. Physical Review E, 68(2), 026412. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.026412)

Keston, D.A., Laing, E.W. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2003) Bernstein modes in a weakly relativistic electron-positron plasma. Physical Review E, 67, art 036403. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.67.036403)

2002

Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020, Da Costa, A.A. and Laing, E.W. (2002) Coupling between electrostatic and electromagnetic behaviour in a cylindrical equal-mass plasma. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 387(1), 339 -346. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361:20020302)

da Costa, A.A. and Diver, D.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6478-6020 (2002) Pulsar geometrodynamics: the magnetospheric plasma flow. In: Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories, Rome, 2-8 July 2000, pp. 2309-2310. ISBN 9812380108 (doi: 10.1142/9789812777386_0560)