Publications

* Denotes undergraduate and/or graduate students mentored on these projects.

(In review) — The Cross-Helical Shear Instability: Exponential Dynamo Action in Non-Uniform Shear Flows
B. Tripathi, A.E. Fraser, P.W. Terry, E.G. Zweibel, M.J. Pueschel, and A.M. Beloborodov
Phys. Rev. Lett.

April 2026 — Bridging the Prandtl number gap: 3D simulations of thermohaline convection in astrophysical regimes
A.E. Fraser
Astrophys. J. Lett., DOI | ADS | arXiv | Zenodo record for data/scripts

April 2026 — Nonmodal growth and optimal perturbations in magnetohydrodynamic shear flows
A.E. Fraser, A.K. Kaminski, and J.S. Oishi
Phys. Rev. E., DOI | ADS | arXiv

March 2026 — The Life-Cycle of the Jet-Driven Shear-Flow Dynamo
B. Tripathi, A.E. Fraser, P.W. Terry, E.G. Zweibel, M.J. Pueschel
Phys. Plasmas, DOI

January 2026 — Large Scale Dynamos Driven by Shear-Flow-Induced Jets
B. Tripathi, A.E. Fraser, P.W. Terry, E.G. Zweibel, M.J. Pueschel, and R. Fan
Nature, DOI | ADS
→ Press release

November 2025 — Morphological Regimes of Rotating Moist Convection
W.T. Powers*, A.E. Fraser, E.H. Anders, J.S. Oishi, and B.P. Brown
Astrophys. J., DOI | ADS | arXiv

September 2025 — Spontaneous generation of helical flows by salt fingers
A.E. Fraser, A. van Kan, E. Knobloch, K. Julien, and C. Liu
J. Fluid Mech. Rapids, DOI | arXiv

June 2025 — 3D Simulations Demonstrate Propagating Thermohaline Convection for Polluted White Dwarfs
I.G. Cresswell*, A.E. Fraser, E.B. Bauer, E.H. Anders, and B.P. Brown
Astrophys. J. Lett., DOI | ADS | arXiv

October 2024 — Evolution of Semi-convective Staircases in Rotating Flows: Consequences for Fuzzy Cores in Giant Planets
J.R. Fuentes, B.W. Hindman, A.E. Fraser, and E.H. Anders
Astrophys. J. Lett., DOI | ADS | arXiv

October 2024 — An examination of nonlinear collisionless magnetic reconnection through eigenmode decomposition
N.T. Stolnicki, Z.R. Williams, and A.E. Fraser
Phys. Plasmas, letter, DOI | ADS
→ Designated as a Phys. Plasmas Featured Article

May 2024 — Predicting the Slowing of Stellar Differential Rotation by Instability-Driven Turbulence
B. Tripathi*, A.J. Barker, A.E. Fraser, P.W. Terry, and E.G. Zweibel
Astrophys. J., DOI | ADS | arXiv

March 2024 — Magnetized fingering convection in stars
A.E. Fraser, S.A. Reifenstein, and P. Garaud
Astrophys. J., DOI | ADS | arXiv

October 2023 — Three-dimensional shear-flow instability saturation via stable modes
B. Tripathi*, P.W. Terry, A.E. Fraser, E.G. Zweibel, M.J. Pueschel
Phys. Fluids and Phys. Plasmas joint issue, DOI | arXiv

July 2023 — Nonlinear mode coupling and energetics of driven magnetized shear-flow turbulence
B. Tripathi*, A.E. Fraser, P.W. Terry, E.G. Zweibel, M.J. Pueschel, and E.A. Anders
Phys. Plasmas, DOI | ADS | arXiv
→ Designated as a Phys. Plasmas Featured Article

December 2022 — Characterizing Observed Extra Mixing Trends in Red Giants using the Reduced Density Ratio from Thermohaline Models
A.E. Fraser, M. Joyce, E.H. Anders, J. Tayar, and M. Cantiello
Astrophys. J., DOI | arXiv

October 2022 — Non-ideal instabilities in sinusoidal shear flows with a streamwise magnetic field
A.E. Fraser, I.G. Cresswell*, and P. Garaud
J. Fluid Mech., DOI | arXiv
→ SDSC press release

September 2022 — Near-cancellation of up-and down-gradient momentum transport in forced magnetized shear-flow turbulence
B. Tripathi*, A.E. Fraser, P.W. Terry, E.G. Zweibel, and M.J. Pueschel
Phys. Plasmas, DOI | arXiv

July 2022 — Mechanism for Sequestering Magnetic Energy at Large Scales in Shear-Flow Turbulence
B. Tripathi*, A.E. Fraser, P.W. Terry, E.G. Zweibel, and M.J. Pueschel
Phys. Plasmas, DOI | arXiv

August 2022 — Magnetized Oscillatory Double-diffusive Convection
A. Sanghi*, A.E. Fraser, E.R. Tian, and P. Garaud
Astrophys. J., DOI | arXiv

March 2022 — Schwarzschild and Ledoux are equivalent on evolutionary timescales
E.H. Anders, A.S. Jermyn, D. Lecoanet, A.E. Fraser, I.G. Cresswell, M. Joyce, and J.R. Fuentes
Astrophys. J. Lett., DOI | ADS | arXiv

February 2021 — The impact of magnetic fields on momentum transport and saturation of shear-flow instability by stable modes
A.E. Fraser, P.W. Terry, E.G. Zweibel, M.J. Pueschel, and J.M. Schroeder*
Physics of Plasmas 28, 022309, DOI | ADS
→ Designated as a Phys. Plasmas Editor’s Pick

December 2018 — Role of stable modes in driven shear-flow turbulence
A.E. Fraser, M.J. Pueschel, P.W. Terry, and E.G. Zweibel
Physics of Plasmas 25, 122303, DOI | ADS
→ Designated as a Phys. Plasmas Featured Article
→ Selected for an AIP Scilight article
→ UW press release

June 2017 — Coupling of damped and growing modes in unstable shear flow
A.E. Fraser, P.W. Terry, E.G. Zweibel, and M.J. Pueschel
Physics of Plasmas 24, 062304, DOI | ADS
→ Designated as a Phys. Plasmas Editor’s Pick