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10. Star-forming environments in smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics simulations I: Clump extraction and properties [Data]
    J. Wurster & C. Rowan
    MNRAS, 523, 3025-3042, Aug. 2023.
    
9. Gas and star kinematics in cloud-cloud collisions.  [Videos]  [Data]
   *Appendix A describes dynamic boundary conditions.
   *Appendix C describes our clump-finding algorithm.
   J. Wurster & I. A. Bonnell
   MNRAS, 522, 891-911, June 2023.
   
8. On the origin of magnetic fields in stars II: The effect of numerical resolution [Data]
   *Analyses the effect of numerical resolution on magnetic fields during the star formation process.
   J. Wurster, M. R. Bate, D. J. Price & I. A. Bonnell
   MNRAS, 511, 746-764, March 2022.
   
7. The formation and early evolution of embedded star clusters in spiral galaxies.
   S. Rieder, C. Dobbs, T. Bending, K. Y. Liow & J. Wurster
   MNRAS, 509, 6155-6168, Feb 2022.
   
6. The properties of clusters, and the orientation of magnetic fields relative to filaments, in magnetohydrodynamic simulations of colliding clouds
   *Section 2.2 presents an improved divergence cleaning timestep for stability of strongly interacting magnetic fields.
   C. Dobbs & J. Wurster
   MNRAS, 502, 2285-2295, April 2021.
   
5. Do we need non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics to model protostellar discs?  [Videos]  [Code]
   *Appendix A introduces Nicil v2.1.
   J. Wurster
   MNRAS, 501, 5873-5891, March 2021.
   
4. Phantom: A smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics  [Code]
   D. J. Price, J. Wurster, T. S. Tricco, C. Nixon, and 23 others.
   PASA, 35:e031, September 2018.
   
3. NICIL: A stand alone library to self-consistently calculate non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic coefficients in molecular clouds  [Code]  [Data]
   J. Wurster
   PASA, 33:e041, September 2016.
   
2. Can non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics solve the magnetic braking catastrophe?  [Videos]  [Data]
   *Sections 2.1-2.3 introduce our non-ideal MHD algorithms, which are the precursor to Nicil.
   J. Wurster, D. J. Price & M. R. Bate
   MNRAS, 457, 1037-1061, March 2016.
1. Ambipolar diffusion in smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics.
   J. Wurster, D. J. Price & B. Ayliffe
   MNRAS, 444, 1104-1112, October 2014.

2. Resolving numerical star formation: A cautionary tale
   J. Wurster & M. R. Bate.
   Conference proceedings of the 14th international SPHERIC workshop, June 2019.
   
1. Investigating prescriptions for artificial resistivity in smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics
   J. Wurster, M. R. Bate, D. J. Price & T. S. Tricco.
   Conference proceedings of the 12th international SPHERIC workshop, June 2017.