Publications

2025: 

• Rayleigh-Taylor instability in magnetized and rotating radiative viscoelastic quantum fluids, J. Turi, R. Bhambhu and R. P. Prajapati, Europhysics Letters 151, 64001 (2025). [IOP] 

• The temperature gradient driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability in thermally diffusive strongly coupled quantum fluids, V. K. Sangwan and R. P. Prajapati, Physics Letters A 557, 130869 (2025). [Elsevier]

• The impact of intrinsic magnetisation and Ohmic diffusion on Jeans instability in strongly magnetised anisotropic quantum plasmas, V. K. Sangwan, R. Bhambhu and R. P. Prajapati, Journal of Plasma Physics 91, E107 (2025). [Cambridge University Press]

• Modified dynamics of dust Coulomb waves due to polarization force in gravitating viscoelastic fluid, Deepak and R. P. Prajapati, Physics Letters A 553, 130697 (2025). [Elsevier]

• Wave modes and gravitational instability in degenerate quantum plasmas including radiation pressure and viscoelastic effects, R. Bhambhu, J. Turi and R. P. Prajapati, European Physical Journal Plus 140, 400 (2025). [Springer]

• Radiation pressure-driven magneto-gravitational instability in finitely conducting strongly coupled quantum plasmas, Mehak Mahajan and Ram Prasad Prajapati, Brazilian Journal of Physics 55, 108 (2025). [Springer] 

2024:

• Firehose instability in heat-conducting solar wind plasmas including FLR corrections and electrical resistivity, R. P. Prajapati, Europhysics Letters 147, 14003 (2024). [Institute of Physics]

• Radiation pressure-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability in compressible strongly magnetized ultra-relativistic degenerate plasmas, R. Bhambhu and R. P. Prajapati, Physics of plasmas 31, 082708 (2024). [Institute of Physics]

• Compressibility effects on Rayleigh-Taylor instability in magnetized strongly coupled dusty plasmas, Deepak and R. P. Prajapati, Radiation Effects & Defects in Solids 179, 1017 (2024). [Taylor & Francis]

• Internal waves and Rayleigh-Taylor instability in magnetized compressible strongly coupled dusty plasmas, Deepak and R. P. Prajapati, Journal of Plasma Physics, 90, 905900412 (2024). [Cambridge University Press]

• Suprathermal corrections on galactic cosmic ray driven MHD waves and gravitational instability in astrophysical plasmas, Pallab Boro and R. P. Prajapati, Physics of Fluids 36, 114113 (2024). [AIP (USA)]
  
  

   2023:

• Cosmic ray-driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in magnetized self-gravitating dusty molecular clouds, Pallab Boro and R. P. Prajapati, Month. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 522, 1752 (2023). [Royal Astronomical Soc. (UK)].

• Rayleigh-Taylor instability in compressible ultra-relativistic degenerate strongly coupled plasma, R. Bhambhu and R. P. Prajapati, Physics of Plasmas 30, 042114 (2023). [AIP (USA)].

• Wave modes and instabilities in gravitating magnetized polytropic quantum plasmas including viscosity tensor and FLR corrections, Vinesh K. Sangwan and R. P. Prajapati, Month. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 525, 1 (2023). [Royal Astronomical Soc. (UK)].
  
  

2022:

• Gravitational instability in radiative molecular clouds including cosmic ray diffusion and ion Larmor radius corrections, R. P. Prajapati Month. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 510, 2127 (2022). [Royal Astronomical Soc. (UK)].

• Effects of heat-flux vector and Braginskii viscosity on wave dissipation and instabilities in rotating gravitating anisotropic plasmas, E. T. Desta, R. P. Prajapati and T. H. Eritro, European Physical Journal Plus 137, 437 (2022). [Springer].

• Effects of cosmic radiation pressure on the gravitational instability of rotating plasmas, R. P. Prajapati and Isha Shailesh,  J. Astrophysics & Astronomy 43, 33 (2022). [Springer]

• Editorial: Waves, Instabilities and Structure Formation in Astrophysical Plasmas, R. P. Prajapati and Vinod Krishan, J. Astrophysics & Astronomy 43, 19 (2022). [Springer].

• Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in sheared dusty plasma flows including dust polarization and ion drag forces, B. Dolai and R. P. Prajapati, Physica Scripta 97, 065603 (2022). [IOP (UK)].

• Dissipation of hydromagnetic waves in the viscous polytropic zone of the solar wind including FLR corrections, ohmic diffusion and the Hall effect, R. P. Prajapati, E. T. Desta, Mei-Ching Fok and T. H. Eritro, Month. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 510, 2127 (2022). [Royal Astronomical Soc. (UK)].
  
  

2021:

• Gravitational instability with dust charge gradient and ion drag forces in unmagnetized dusty plasma, Bivash Dolai and R. P. Prajapati Physica Scripta 96, 025601 (2021). [IOP (UK)].

• Suppression of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability due to polarization force in nouniform magnetized sheared dusty plasmas, R. P. Prajapati and Pallab Boro, AIP Advances 11, 095202 (2021). [AIP (USA)]

2020:

• Effects of dust charge gradient and polarization forces on the waves and Jean instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma, Bivash Dolai and R. P. Prajapati Physics Letters A 384, 126462 (2020). [Elsevier Publication].  

2019:

• Effects of radiation pressure and polarization force on Jeans instability in magnetized strongly coupled dusty plasma, S. Bhakta, R. K. Chhajlani and R. P. Prajapati Physica Scripta 94, 045603 (2019). [IOP (UK)].
  
  

2018:

• Effects of Hall current and electrical resistivity on the stability of gravitating anisotropic quantum plasma, S. Bhakta and R. P. Prajapati, Physics of Plasmas 25, 022101 (2018). [AIP (USA)].

• The rotating Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a strongly coupled dusty plasma, Bivash Dolai and R. P. Prajapati, Physics of Plasmas 25, 083708 (2018). [AIP (USA)].
  
  

2017:

• Gravitational instability of rotating anisotropic pressure quantum plasma, S. Argal, R. P. Prajapati and P. K. Sharma, J. Plasma Physics, 83, 905830203 (2017). [Cambridge University Press, (UK)]

• Small amplitude waves and linear firehose and mirror instabilities in rotating polytropic quantum plasma, S. Bhakta and R. P. Prajapati, Physics of Plasmas 24, 082113 (2017). [AIP].

• Rayleigh-Taylor instability and internal waves in strongly coupled quantum plasma, Bivash Dolai and R. P. Prajapati, Physics of Plasmas 24, 112101 (2017). [AIP].

• Influence of neutrino beam on the Jeans instability in a magnetized quantum plasma, R. P. Prajapati, Physics of Plasmas 24, 122902 (2017). [AIP].
  
  

2016:

• Rayleigh-Taylor instability in non-uniform magnetized rotating strongly coupled viscoelastic fluid, R. P. Prajapati, Physics of Plasmas 23, 022106 (2016). [AIP (USA)].

• Rayleigh-Taylor instability in dusty magnetized fluids with surface tension flowing through porous medium, P. K. Sharma, A. Tiwari, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, Thermal Science 20, 119 (2016). [Vinica Institute of Nuclear Science (Serbia)].

• Effect of Fermi Pressure and Bohm Potential on Jeans Instability of Quantum Dusty Plasma in Presence of Polarization Force, Prerana Sharma, Shweta Jain, R.P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, IEEE Trans. Plasma Science 44, 862 (2016). [IEEE]

• Jeans instability in collisional strongly coupled dusty plasma with radiative condensation and polarization force, R. P. Prajapati, S. Bhakta and R. K. Chhajlani, Physics of Plasmas 23, 053703 (2016). [AIP (USA)].

• Jeans instability of partially ionized self-gravitating viscous plasma with Hall effect FLR corrections and porosity, S. Kaothekar, G. D. Soni, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, Astrophys. Space Sci., 361, 204 (2016). [Springer].

• Quantum effects on the Rayleigh-Taylor instability of stratified plasma in the presence of suspended particles, G. A. Hoshoudy and R. P. Prajapati, Pramana J-Physics 87, 99 (2016) [Springer].

• Effect of different dust flow velocities on combined Kelvin-Helmholtz and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in magnetized incompressible dusty fluids, Bivash Dolai, R. P. Prajapati, and R. K. Chhajlani, Physics of Plasmas 23, 113704 (2016). [AIP (USA)].

2015:

• Jeans instability of rotating viscoelastic fluid in the presence of magnetic field, P. K. Sharma, S. Argal, A. Tiwari and R. P. Prajapati, Z. Naturforsch A, 70, 39 (2015).  [De Gruyter (Germany)].

• Radiative condensation instability in gravitating strongly coupled dusty plasma with polarization force, R. P. Prajapati and S. Bhakta, Astrophys. Space Sci., 357, 101 (2015). [Springer ].

• Influence of dust charge fluctuation and polarization force on radiative condensation instability of magnetized gravitating dusty plasma, R. P. Prajapati and S. Bhakta, Physics Letters A 379, 2723 (2015). [Elsevier Publication]
  
  

2014:

• Effect of quantum corrections on the Jeans instability of self-gravitating viscoelastic dusty fluid, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani,  Astrophys. & Space Sci. 350, 637 (2014). [Springer].

• Hydromagnetic instability in compressible fluid in porous media, S. Argal, A. Tiwari, R. P. Prajapati and P. K. Sharma, J. of Physics: Conf. Ser. 534, 012057 (2014). [IOP (UK)].

• Low frequency waves and gravitational instability in homogeneous magnetized gyrotropic quantum plasma, R. P. Prajapati, Physics of Plasmas 21, 112101 (2014). [AIP (USA)].

2013:

• Effect of magnetic field and radiative condensation on Jeans instability of self-gravitating dusty plasma with polarization force, R. P. Prajapati, Physics Letters A 377, 291 (2013). [Elsevier Publication].

• Self-gravitational instability in magnetized finitely conducting strongly coupled viscoelastic fluid, R. P. Prajapati,and R. K. Chhajlani, Astrophys. & Space Sci. 344, 371 (2013). [Springer].

2012:

• Jeans instability of self-gravitating magnetized strongly coupled plasma, R. P. Prajapati, P. K. Sharma, R. K. Sanghvi and R. K. Chhajlani, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 365, 012040 (2012). [Institute of Physics (UK)].
  

2011:

• Effect of magnetic field on Jeans instability of quantum dusty plasma: Application in White Dwarf Star R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, Acta Technica 56, T414-T424 (2011). [Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR (Czech Republic)]

• Effect of polarization force on the Jeans instability of self-gravitating dusty plasma, R. P. Prajapati, Physics Letters A 375, 2624 (2011). [Elsevier Publication].
  
  

2010:

• • Self-gravitational instability of rotating viscous Hall plasma with arbitrary radiative heat-loss functions and electron inertia, R. P. Prajapati, R. K. Pensia, S. Kaothekar and R. K. Chhajlani, Astrophysics & Space Science 327, 139 (2010). [Springer (Netherlands)].

  • Effect of dust temperature on radiative condensation instability of self-gravitating magnetized dusty plasma, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, Physica Scripta 81, 045501 (2010). [The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (UK)].

  • Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of magnetized plasmas with surface tension and dust particles, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, J. Physics Conf. Ser. 208, 012078 (2010), [IOP (UK)].

  • Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of anisotropic pressure plasma using generalized polytrope laws, R. P. Prajapati, R. K. Chhajlani and A. K. Parihar, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 208, 012077 (2010). [IOP (UK)].

  • Rayleigh-Taylor instability of two superposed magnetized fluids with suspended dust particles, P. K. Sharma, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, Thermal Science 14, 11 (2010). [Vinica Institute of Nuclear Science (Serbia)].

  • Effect of surface tension and rotation on Rayleigh-Taylor instability of two superposed fluids with suspended dust particles, P. K. Sharma, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, Acta Physica Polonica A 118, 576 (2010), [Polish Physical Society (Poland)].

  • Effect of Hall current on Jeans instability of magnetized quantum viscous plasma, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, Physica Scripta 82, 055003 (2010). [The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (UK)].

  • Kelvin-Helmholtz and Rayleigh Taylor instability of two superposed fluids with suspended dust particles flowing through porous media, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, Journal of Porous Media 13, 765 (2010). [Begell House (USA)].

  • Effect of pressure anisotropy and flow velocity on Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of anisotropic magnetized plasma using generalized polytrope laws, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, Physics of Plasmas 17, 112108 (2010). [AIP (USA), IF – 2.375].

2009:

• Kelvin-Helmholtz and Rayleigh-Taylor instability of two superposed magnetized incompressible fluids with suspended dust particles, R. P. Prajapati, G.D. Soni, R.K. Sanghvi and R. K. Chhajlani, Z. Naturforsch A 64a, 455 (2009). [Verlag (Germany)].

2008:

• Self-gravitational instability of rotating anisotropic heat conducting plasma, R. P. Prajapati, A. K. Parihar and R. K. Chhajlani, Physics of Plasmas 15, 012107 (2008). [AIP (USA)].

• Self-gravitating rotating anisotropic pressure plasma in presence of Hall current and electrical resistivity with generalized polytope laws, R. P. Prajapati, G. D. Soni and R. K. Chhajlani, Physics of Plasmas 15, 062108 (2008) [AIP (USA)].

Publications in Proceedings: (04)

• Jeans instability in quantum magnetized dusty plasma: Formation of compact stars, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, Proceedings of EIPT, pp. 270 (2011). [Excel Publishers, New Delhi]

• Influence of polarization force on Jeans instability of magnetized dusty plasma, R. P. Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1397, pp. 229-230 (2011) [American Institute of Physics (USA)].

• Gravitational instability of dusty plasma with radiative process, R. P.  Prajapati and R. K. Chhajlani, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1397, pp. 267-268 (2011) [American Institute of Physics (USA).

• Influence of rotation on Rayleigh-Taylor instability of magnetized strongly coupled viscoelastic fluid, R. P. Prajapati, Conference Proceedings, Int. Conf. Proc. on High Power Coherent Radiation Generation & its Interaction with Matters ISBN  978-81-932836-6-0, pp. 24-28 (2016) [SATI Vidisha, M.P.]