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:
- Magnetic Reconnection.
- - 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.
- Kinetic plasma turbulence
- - 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.
- Kinetic plasma turbulence and magnetic reconnection
- - Magnetic reconnection through forming current sheets.
- Contribution to Vlasov code development for electron scale plasma physics.
- Linear theory and simulations of radio emission in the solar corona/solar wind
- - 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.
- Linear theory and simulations of radio emission in pulsar magnetospheres
- - 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
- Collisionless shock waves.
- - 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).