Dr William Wilkinson
Principal Lecturer
contact:
Computing, Engineering and Mathematics
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN2 4GJ
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 642406
Email: W.P.Wilkinson@brighton.ac.uk
Research
Will is a member of the Computational Mathematics Group
Publications
- P. J. Moran, A. R. Breen, C. A. Varley, P. J. S. Williams, W. P. Wilkinson and J. Markkanen Measurements of the direction of the solar wind using interplanetary scintillations", Annales Geophysicae, 16 (10), pp. 1259-1264, 1998.
- A. R. Breen, P. J. Moran, C. A. Varley, W. P. Wilkinson, P. J. S. Williams, W. A. Coles, A. Lecinski and J. Markkanen, Interplanetary scintillation observations of interaction regions in the solar wind, Annales Geophysicae, 16 (10), pp. 1265-1282, 1998.
- W. P. Wilkinson, Multiple encounters of a specularly reflected ion with planar quasi-perpendicular shocks, Planetary and Space Science 47(3-4), pp. 529-543, 1999.
- W. P. Wilkinson, Constraints from the theory of magnetohydrodynamics on the supersonic interaction of two coplanar plasmas Journal of Technical Physics 40 (1), pp. 49-52, 1999.
- W. P. Wilkinson What the Rankine-Hugoniot relations tell us about co-rotating interaction regions in the solar wind, and what they don´t, Proceedings of the Les Woolliscroft Memorial Conference/Sheffield Space Plasma Meeting: Multi-Point Measurements versus Theory, Sheffield (UK), 24-26 April 2001, European Space Agency Special Publication SP-492 (ed. B. Warmbein), pp. 45-52, July 2001.
- W. P. Wilkinson The Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock: review of observations and perspectives for Cluster, Planetary and Space Science 51 (11), pp. 629-647, 2003. (Invited review article for a special issue of the journal).
- S. W. Ellacott and W.P. Wilkinson, Heating of directly transmitted ions at low mach number perpendicular shocks: new insights from a statistical physics formulation, J. Geophys Res., vol.108, no. A11, 1409, 2003.
- S. W. Ellacott and W.P. Wilkinson, Irreversibility and entropy issues concerning the heating of directly transmitted ions at low mach number perpendicular collisionless shocks, to appear in J. Advances in Space Research. Click here for a preprint.
Publications from the document repository
Newman, P.R., Ellacott, S.W. and WILKINSON, WILLIAM (2011) A statistical physics perspective on the evolution of Ion distribution across low-mach number quasi-perpendicular collisionless shocks Journal of Geophysical Research, 116 (A9). ISSN 0148-0227
Blake, A.L., Winstanley, G. and Wilkinson, W.P. (2009) Deriving Displacement from 3-Axis Accelerometers In: Computer Games, Multimedia & Allied Technology, May 2009, Singapore.
Newman, P., Wilkinson, W.P. and Ellacott, S.W. (2007) Trajectories of ions specularly reflected from non-planar collisionless shocks Planetary and space science, 55 (15). pp. 2295-2298. ISSN 0032-0633 (In Press)
Ellacott, S.W. and Wilkinson, W.P. (2007) Heating of directly transmitted ions at low Mach number oblique collisionless shocks: a statistical physics formulation Planetary and Space Science, 55 (15). pp. 2251-2256. ISSN 0032-0633 (In Press)
Wilkinson, W. and Ellacott, S.W. (2005) Irreversibility and entropy issues concerning the heating of directly transmitting ions at low Mach number perpendicular collisionless shocks Advances in Space Research, 37 (3). pp. 473-482. ISSN 0273-1177
Wilkinson, W.P. (2003) The earth's quasi-parallel bow-shock: review of observations and perspectives for Cluster Planetary and Space Science, 51 (11). pp. 629-647. ISSN 0032-0633
Ellacott, S.W. and Wilkinson, W.P. (2003) Heating of directly transmitted ions at low Mach number perpendicular shocks: new insights from a statistical physics formulation Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (A111). p. 1409. ISSN 0148-0227
Wilkinson, W.P. (2001) What the Rankine-Hugoniot relations tell us about co-rotating interaction regions in the solar wind, and what they don't In: Proceedings of the Les Woolliscroft Memorial Conference/Sheffield Space Plasma Meeting: Multi-Point Measurements versus Theory, 24-26 April 2001, Sheffield, UK.
