Dr . Prince Kumar
Postdoctoral Fellow — Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Thaltej, Ahmedabad, India
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Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Strongly coupled Plasmas: Collective excitations, Thermodynamics, and Phase Transition
Space Plasmas: interaction of space debris with space plasmas
Professional Experience
Professional Experience
Feb 2026 to Present: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Planetary Sciences Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Jan 2024 to Feb 2026: Postdoctoral Fellow: Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India.
Academic Qualifications
Academic Qualifications
Ph.D. (Physics): Ph. D. Physics: Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India (Degree conferred by Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) [AUG 2017 - Dec 2023]
M.Sc. (Physics): Department of Physics, Kurukshetra University, India [July 2013 - June 2015]
B.Sc. (Physics, Chemistry, Math): Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India [July 2010 - June 2013]
Higher Secondary (XII): Govt. High School, Ladwa, Kurukshetra [2010]
Secondary (X): Govt. Senior Secondary School [2008]
Ph.D. Thesis
Ph.D. Thesis
Thesis Title: Study on Linear and nonlinear collective excitations of dusty Plasmas in their strongly coupled quasi-localized regime.
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Devendra Sharma, Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, India
Registered at: Discipline of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Date of joining Ph.D.: 01 August 2017
Date of thesis submission: 18 July 2023
Date of thesis defense: 24 November 2023
Date of thesis received: 26 December 2023
Research Publications
Research Publications
Prince Kumar, Debkumar Chakraborty, and Devendra Sharma, “Study of pinned soliton in strongly coupled Yukawa fluids,” Contrib. Plasma Phys., e70066 (2025).
S. Dalui, Prince Kumar, and Devendra Sharma, “Quantitative analysis of modulational instability in Yukawa fluids,” Phys. Plasmas 32, 093701 (2025).
Prince Kumar and Devendra Sharma, “Simple fluid approach for nonlinear excitations in Yukawa fluids,” J. Plasma Phys. 91, E61 (2025).
Pawandeep Singh, Prince Kumar, and Shantanu Karkari, “Electron density evolution in a collapsing positive ion sheath,” Physica Scripta (2025).
Prince Kumar and Devendra Sharma, “Numerical validation of Yukawa fluid excitations within the QLCA framework,” Contrib. Plasma Phys. 64, e202400026 (2024).
Prince Kumar and Devendra Sharma, “Quasilocalized charge approximation approach for nonlinear structures in strongly coupled Yukawa systems,” Phys. Plasmas 30, 033702 (2023).
S. Dalui, Prince Kumar, and Devendra Sharma, “Modulational instability of a Yukawa fluid under QLCA,” Physica Scripta 98, 025606 (2023).
Prince Kumar and Devendra Sharma, “Collective excitations of rotating dusty plasma under QLCA,” Phys. Plasmas 28, 083704 (2021).
Prince Kumar and Devendra Sharma, “Dust vortex flow analysis in weakly magnetized plasma,” Phys. Plasmas 27, 063703 (2020).
Research Conference
Research Conference
• 2020 — Poster: Analysis of driven dust vortex flow in weakly magnetized plasma, 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics, 26–31 Oct 2020.
• 2021 — Invited Talk: Weakly magnetized dust vortex flow without non-conservative fields, 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics, 26 Sept–1 Oct 2021.
• 2021 — Oral: Strongly magnetic field effects in rotating dusty plasma, 36th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology, 13–15 Dec 2021.
• 2022 — Poster: Dust vortex flow analysis in weakly magnetized plasma, 9th International Conf. on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (ICPDP 2022), Moscow, Russia.
• 2022 — Oral: Strongly coupled rotating dust flow analysis within QLCA, 9th International Conf. on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Moscow, Russia.
• 2022 — Oral: Collective magnetoplasmon excitations of an “effectively” magnetized strongly coupled system, HBNI Interaction Meeting on Condensed Matter, SINP Kolkata.
• 2022 — Oral: QLCA approach for nonlinear structures in strongly coupled Yukawa systems, 64th APS-DPP Meeting, Spokane, WA, USA.
• 2022 — Oral: Collective excitations in strongly coupled systems under QLCA, 37th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (PLASMA-2022), India.
• 2022 — Poster: Linear and nonlinear excitation analysis of strongly coupled Yukawa fluids under QLCA, 12th ICPP, Gyeongju, South Korea.
• 2023 — Poster: Nonlinear excitations in strongly coupled dusty plasma, 49th European Conf. on Plasma Physics, Bordeaux, France.
• 2023 — Poster: Sheared flow instabilities in rotating magnetoplasmas under Beta-plane approximation, 3rd International Conf. on Plasma Theory and Simulations (PTS-2023).
Awards/Achievements/Grants
Awards/Achievements/Grants
• 2013 — Merit Certificate, M.L.N. College, Yamuna Nagar, Kurukshetra University.
• 2017 — Qualified GATE (Physics).
• 2017–2019 — Junior Research Fellow (JRF), Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), HBNI, India.
• 2019–2023 — Senior Research Fellow (SRF), Institute for Plasma Research, HBNI, India.
• 2022 — Student Travel Grant, IPR (DAE) for the 20th International Congress on Plasma Physics (ICPP 2022), Gyeongju, South Korea.
• 2022 — Student Travel Grant, American Physical Society for the 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP2022).
• 2023 — Student Travel Grant, HBNI for the 49th European Conference on Plasma Physics (EPS 2023), Bordeaux, France.
Skills
Skills
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD): Expertise in pseudospectral methods for simulating fluid flows and plasma waves.
Molecular dynamics (MD): Skilled in using LAMMPS for simulating strongly coupled plasmas.
Particle in Cell (PIC): Matter-Plasma interaction ( for LEO region)
Code development: Developed in-house CFD codes using pseudospectral methods
Programming: FORTRAN, MATLAB, Python, Linux shell.
Software: LAMMPS, VMD, Sion package, LATEX.
High-performance computing: Experience installing and running scientific codes on HPC clusters.
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