Ashwin Joy Graduate student Theory Group Institute For Plasma Research Gandhinagar, India - 382428 email : ashwin@ipr.res.in

Education:
BSc. (Physics), St. Xavier's College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, 1999-2002.
MSc. (Physics), Dept. of Physics, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, 2002-2004.
Phd. (Physics), Institute For Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, since September-2006.

Curriculum Vitae

Research:
My area of interest is statistical mechanics and hydrodynamics of strongly coupled systems close to and far from equilibrium . I study how these systems wiggle , and how they respond and dissipate energy when kicked (of course gently !). We study these wiggles and fluctuations at the micro scale by invoking Linear Response Theory and using appropriate Green - Kubo Correlation functions. Currently I am studying statistical and hydrodynamical phenomena in strongly coupled dusty plasmas (Yukawa systems).

Publications

1. Effect of external drive on strongly coupled Yukawa systems : A nonequilibrium molecular dynamics study
        Ashwin J. and R. Ganesh, Physical Review E (80), 056408, (2009)


2. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in strongly coupled Yukawa liquids
        Ashwin J. and R. Ganesh, Physical Review Letters, (104), 215003 (2010)


3. Parallel shear flow instabilities in strongly coupled Yukawa liquids - ``A comparison of generalized hydrodynamic and molecular dynamics results''
        Ashwin J. and R. Ganesh, Physics of Plasmas (In Press)

Scientific softwares

MPMD: Multi-Potential Molecular Dynamics code, a parallel MPI-based molecular dynamics code written in C for simulating Yukawa, Lennard-Jones and Carbon systems.

MPMD-PyUtils: A collection of python scripts for numerical post-processing of MPMD output data.

movieGL: An openGL-based C code to visualize the particle trajectories in real time.