Welcome to David Clarke's home page

 

 

On September 1, 2023 and after 30 years on the faculty at Saint Mary's University, I retired my position as professor of astronomy and physics.

 

My area of expertise is computational magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) on which I continue to work at my home in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 

I am the author of the open source MHD code ZEUS-3D. The adaptive zone version, AZEuS, remains under development.

 

I'm also the author of the senior undergraduate text: A first course in Magnetohydrodynamics (Cambridge: CUP), available since June, 2025.

 

 

Redirect to my full webpage for teaching and research resources including access to ZEUS-3D, AZEuS, instructor support for my text AfciMHD, and much of the content of the webpage I maintained as a professor including teaching resources, primers, and specialised computer programs.

 

Background: ZEUS-3D simulation showing the magnetic energy density in a super-Alfvénic turbulent medium.    

Last updated by DAC, Apr. 27, 2026