NAME : NAGENDRA KUMAR
Designation : Reader
Phone
: 120-2703419, 9555739225 (Mob.)
Email
: nagendrakgk@rediffmail.com
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (in years) : 18 years
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS : M.Phil. ,Ph.D.
M. Phil Topic : Velocity Distribution in Laminar Boundary Layer on a Concave Surface.
Ph.D. Topic : Wave Propagation and Instabilities in Certain Plasma Configurations.
CAREER PROFILE
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION : MHD, Plasma and Solar Physics
TEACHING INTERESTS : Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Algebra, Trigonometry,
Real and Complex Analysis, Calculus, Fluid Dynamics
RESEARCH GUIDANCE : 05
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION/PRESENTATIONS:
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International Conference on Plasma Physics" held at New Delhi from Nov. 22-28 ,
1989.
International Astronomical Union Symposium 142 on " Basic Plasma Processes on
The Sun" held at Bangalore from Dec. 1-5, 1989.
Royal Astronomical meeting "Our Sun's Revealed by Yohkoh,SOHO, TRACE ' held at
London on 12th Feb., 1999.
UK MHD99 meeting held at Glasgow, UK, from May13-14,1999.
XXV International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases’ held at Ngoya, Japan
from July17-22, 2001.
16th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (Plasma 2001) held at
Centre of Plasma Physics, Guwahati, during Dec 17-20, 2001.
`XXVI International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases’ held at Greifswald,
Germany from July15-20, 2003.
International Conference on Challenges for Solar Cycle 24 held at PRL, Ahmedabad,
22-25 Jan, 2007.
15th National Space Science Symposium 2008 held at Ooty from Feb. 26-29, 2008.
Fifth International Conference on Physics of Dusty Plasmas held at Ponta Delgada,
Azores, Portugal, May 18-23, 2008.
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24th National Symposium on Plasma Science and Technology (PLASMA 2009) held at
NIT, Hamirpur (H.P.), Dec. 8-11, 2009.
International Astronomical Union Symposium 273 : Physics of Sun and Star Spots held
at Ventura, California, USA, Aug. 22-26, 2010.
International Conference on Applied Physics and Mathematics (ICAPM 2011) held at
Chennai, April 29-30, 2011.
*RESEARCH PROJECTS (MINOR/MAJOR GRANTS/RESEARCH COLLABORATION) :
Sr.
No.
Name of funding
agencies
University Grants
Commission (UGC)
1.
2.
University Grants
Commission (UGC)
Titled of the
project
Waves and
Instabilities in
Solar Atmosphere
Period
2 years
Waves, Heating
2 years
and Instabilities in
Solar Atmosphere
and Interplanetary
Medium
Nature & cost of
the project
A minor research
project
Cost Rs. 50,000/
Research
Grant=3,00,000/- +
Salary Grant
Status
finished
finished
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (YEAR, TITLE AND JOURNAL NAME PAGE NOS) :
(I) Journals:
 Kumar, N. and Srivastava, K. M. "Gravitational instability
of
partially
ionized plasma carrying a uniform magnetic field with Hall effect", Astrophys. Space
Sci. , Vol. 174, pp. 211-216 (1990) .
 Kumar, N. and Srivastava, K. M. "Self - interaction of Alfven waves
in
cylindrical waveguide filled with an ideally conducting compressible plasma " ,
J. Plasma Phys., Vol. 45, part 1, pp. 89-101 (1991).
 Kumar, N. and Srivastava, K. M. "The effect of large Larmor radius on
nonlinear Alfven waves " , Astrophys. Space Sci., Vol. 184 , No. 1, pp. 49- 56
(1991).
 Kumar. N. and Srivastava, K. M. "Stability of an
inhomogeneous
two
component plasma with magnetic viscosity ", Astrophys. Space Sci., Vol. 199,
pp. 225- 240 (1992).
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Kumar, N., Srivastava, K. M. and Kumar, V. "Effect of large Larmor radius on the
stability of an infinitely conducting inhomogeneous
plasma ",
J. Plasma
Phys., Vol. 48, part 2, pp. 245-260 (1992).
Kumar, V., Kumar, N., Srivastava, K. M. and Mittal, R. C. "Gravitational
instability of a rotating partially ionized plasma carrying a uniform magnetic field
with Hall effect ", Astrophys. Space Sci., Vol. 199, pp. 323- 331, (1993).
Kumar, N. and Srivastava, K. M. " The effect of neutral gas friction on Alfven
surface waves propagating along plasma - vacuum
interface", J. Plasma
Phys., Vol. 60 part 4, pp. 731-742 (1998) .
Kumar, N. and Roberts, B. " Ion-neutral collisions effects on MHD surface waves "
Sol. Phys., Vol. 214, pp 241-266 (2003).
Kumar, V., Srivastava, K. M., Kumar, N. and Sikka, H. " Kelvin- Helmholtz
instability in a rotating ideally conducting inhomogeneous plasma", Pramana- J. Phys.,
Vol. 62, No.4, pp 899-909 (2004).
Sikka , H. , Kumar, N and Zhelyazkov, I. “ Surface wave propagation in an ideal Hallmagnetohydrodynamic plasma jet in flowing environment” Phys. Plasmas, Vol. 11,
Issue 11, pp 4904-4910 (2004) .
Kumar, N. Kumar, P. and Singh, S. “ Coronal heating by MHD waves”, Astron. &
Astrophys., Vol. 453, pp 1067-1078 (2006).
Kumar, N. and Kumar, P. " Viscous damping of non-adiabatic MHD waves in an
unbounded solar coronal plasma” Solar Physics, Vol. 236, Number 1, pp 137-153
(2006).
Kumar, N. and Sikka, H. “On the propagation of hydromagnetic waves in a plasma of
thermal and suprathermal components”, Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 312, Nos.
3-4, pp 193-202 (2007).
Kumar, N , Kumar, P., Kumar, A. and Singh, S. “Damping of slow magneto-acoustic
waves in an inhomogeneous coronal plasma”, J. Astrophys. Astron., Vol. 29, pp. 243248 (2008).
Kumar, P., Kumar. N. and Uddin, W., “Reconnection in photospheric current sheet and
coronal heating”, Plasma Physics Report, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 161-170 (2011).
Kumar, N., Kumar, P. Kumar, A. and Chauhan, R., “Role of equilibrium plasma
flow on damping of slow MHD waves”, Indian Journal of Physics, Vol. 85, Issue 12
(2011) (in press).
Kumar, N. , Kumar, V. and Sikka, H., “ Alfven Surface waves in partially ionized
resistive medium”, Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 110-116, pp 867-873 (2012).
(II) Conference Proceedings
 Kumar, N. and Srivastava, K. M., “ Nonlinear Alfven waves with large Larmor radius
effect”, Proc. Internatinal Astronomical Union (IAU) 142: Basic Plasma Process on the
Sun, (eds. E.R. Priest and V. Krishan), Printed in The Netherlands, p258, 1990.
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Kumar, N. and
Roberts,
B. "Nonlinear interaction of MHD waves in a
cylindricalwaveguide filled with hot magnetize compressible plasma ",
Proc.
“XXV International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG)” (ed. T.
Goto) Vol. 3, pp. 155-156, Nagoya, Japan , July 17-22, 2001 .
Kumar, N. and Sikka, H. “ Effect of ion-parallel viscosity on the propagation of Alfven
surface waves” ",
Proc. “XXVI International Conference on Phenomena in
Ionized Gases (ICPIG)” (eds. J. Meichsner et al.) Vol. 4, pp. 155-156, Greifswald,
Germany , July 15-20, 2003.
Kumar, N., Kumar, V. and Kumar, A. “Ion–acoustic waves in self-gravitating dusty
plasma”, Proc. MULTIFACETS of DUSTY PLASMAS - Fifth International Conference on
Physics of Dusty Plasmas (eds. J. T. Mendonca et al.), American Institute of Physics,
Melville, New York, Vol. 1041, pp 271-72 ( 2008).
Kumar, N., and Kumar A., “Damping and the period ratio P1/2P2 of non-adiabatic slow
mode’’ Proc. of the International Astronomical Union 273: Physics of Sun and Star
Spots, held at Ventura, California, USA, August 22-26, (2010), Vol. 6 / Symposium
S273, pp 491 - 494 (2011) .
Kumar, N. , Kumar, V. and Sikka, H., “ Alfven Surface waves in partially ionized
resistive medium” Proceedings 2011 International Conference on Applied Physics and
Mathematics (ICAPM 2011)”, (ed. Zhang Ting), IEEE Press (IEEE Catalog No.
CFP1194M-PRT), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc, Chengdu, China,
pp. 78-82 (2011) .
BOOKS PUBLISHED : 08
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS :
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Research Associateship awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research ,
New Delhi , India .
Visited Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, for three weeks to carry out
collaborative research in the Department of Mathematics under TIFR –IISC Visitor
Programme.
British Council fellow to work at University of St. Andrews, Scotalnd, UK with Prof. B.
Roberts for a year 1998-1999.
Associateship awarded by Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
(IUCAA), Pune, India for 2001-2004 and then extended three times for period 2004 2007, 2007-2010 and 2010-2013.
INSA Visiting fellowship awarded byIndian National Science Academy (INSA), Delhi
to work at ARIES (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences),
Nainital for a year 2008-2009.
UGC Research Award awarded by University Grants Commission, New Delhi for the
period of two years from Aug. 2009 to Aug. 2011.
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Visiting Scientist at Institute of Physics, UMCS, Lublin, Poland for three weeks in
December, 2010.
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES :
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Life Member of Plasma Science Society India.
Life Member of Astronomical Society of India.