Email: everett@cita.utoronto.ca
John Everett studies magnetohydrodynamics, general hydrodynamics, and radiative transfer, focusing on understanding accretion and outflows in astrophysics in general, and in particular, in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). His research is aimed mostly at understanding the forces driving outflows from accretion disks: is radiative acceleration dominant? Is magnetic acceleration important? What is the structure of the outflows? Are they relatively simple continuous outflows or do they contain density inhomogeneities? How can we observationally distinguish the various physical processes and resultant wind geometries? How can such models help explain the geometry required by AGN Unification pictures? Answering these questions will help us understand the process of accretion and outflows in general, and the recent high-spectroscopic resolution observations of AGN in particular.
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