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