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Master's thesis projects

Projects for Master students or those, who are interested to become a PHD student - we offer the following projects:

  • Plasma physics,
  • Electrodynamics, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics,
  • Solar system plasmas (solar corona, solar wind, Earth's magnetosphere, etc.),
  • Astrophysical plasmas (e.g.: pulsar magnetospheres)
  • Computer programming (Fortran, C++),
  • Visualization by Python (or similar software),

we offer the following Master's thesis projects:

  1. Magnetic Reconnection.
  2. - Effect of ion dynamics on electron shear flow instabilities in magnetic reconnection
    - Linear stability of force free current sheets at electron time scales
    - Heating and particle acceleration by magnetic reconnection.
  3. Kinetic plasma turbulence
  4. - Effect of external magnetic field on wave-vector anisotropy in plasma turbulence
    - Role of electron inertia in kinetic plasma turbulence
    - Electron acceleration by kinetic plasma turbulence.
  5. Kinetic plasma turbulence and magnetic reconnection
  6. - Magnetic reconnection through forming current sheets.
  7. Contribution to Vlasov code development for electron scale plasma physics.
  8. Linear theory and simulations of radio emission in the solar corona/solar wind
  9. - Double plasma resonance for the relativistic loss-cone distributions and possible formation of radio zebras.
    - Particle in cell simulations of the zebra-like radio bursts
    - Development of a plasma dispersion solver for general distribution functions and arbitrary propagation angles
    - Wave-wave interaction as a source of radio bursts during solar flares.
  10. Linear theory and simulations of radio emission in pulsar magnetospheres
  11. - Double plasma resonance for the relativistic loss-cone distributions and possible formation of radio zebras.
    - Interpretation of the pulsar radio zebras using the (relativistic) double plasma resonance instability.
    - Development of a relativistic plasma dispersion solver for general distribution functions and arbitrary propagation angles
  12. Collisionless shock waves.
  13. - Particle acceleration by shock waves

 

Your supervisors will be Prof. Dr. Jörg Büchner, Dr. Neeraj Jain, Dr. Jan Benáček, Dr. Patricio Muñoz. Please contact us for further details (see our e-mail addresses here).

 

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