Research Interests
Research Interests
Primary Research
- Developing digital twins for material processing industries.
- Plasma interaction with spacecraft bodies and Langmuir probes in the polar ionosphere.
- Modeling of rover bodies in harsh lunar environments.
- Ion dynamics and sheath structure in Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion (IECF) machines.
- Magnetized plasma sheaths.
- Dust charging in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.
Past Projects
- Emirates Lunar Mission (ELM):
- The Emirates Lunar Mission involves the deployment of the Rashid Rover on the Moon, where it will explore the lunar surface and study lunar dust dynamics.
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- Daedalus:
- A low-flying spacecraft designed for the exploration of the lower Thermosphere-Ionosphere, aiming to gather data on atmospheric and ionospheric processes.
- Read More: Documentation
- NanoMagSat:
- A nanosatellite mission focusing on magnetic field measurements and mapping for better understanding of Earth’s magnetosphere.
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Numerical Tools/Codes
- Kinetic Codes:
- PTetra: A Finite Element Particle-In-Cell code developed by Prof. Richard Marchand at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
- PUNC++ (Particles-in-UNstructured-Cells, C++ version)
- XOOPIC (X11-based Object-Oriented Particle in Cell code), Michigan State University, USA
- PICSP (Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Plasma), developed at the Centre of Plasma Physics, Institute for Plasma Research, India.
- Gkeyll Vlasov-Maxwell code, developed at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), USA.
- Fluid Codes:
- IDFM - (Ion Dynamics using Fluid Modeling), developed at the Centre of Plasma Physics, Institute for Plasma Research, India.
Additional Interests
Apart from the above, I am also a Python enthusiast. I utilize Python to develop visualization toolkits and create basic machine learning models to aid in my research.