Dastgeer Shaikh

Assistant Professor

Research Areas

• Nonlinear and turbulent processes in the solar wind, interplanetary and interstellar medium, spectral cascades, statistical analysis using three-dimensional simulations of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and Hall MHD models.
• Plasma-neutral coupling due to charge exchange in partially ionized interstellar media and in helioshperic region.
• ISM electron density fluctuation spectra, Kinetic Alfven and Whistler wave turbulence, driven-dissipative magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, and anisotropic energy cascades in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence.
• 2D and 3D fluid turbulence aiming at understanding nearly incompressible hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with MPI parallelization, basic and nonlinear plasma and fluid dynamics.
• The interaction of turbulence with shock waves.
• Dusty plasmas, laboratory plasmas and high density Quantum plasma.
• Basic Plasma and fluid Physics, waves, nonlinear phenomena, partially/fully ionized gases.
• Computational Plasma Physics.

Education

• Ph.D., 2001, Institute for Plasma Research, Gujrat University, India.
• M. Sc., 1993, N. M. University, India.
• B. Sc., 1991, Pune University, India.

Employment

• Assistant Professor, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, 2008 - present.
  
• Professional Research Scientist, University of California, Riverside CA, 2005 - 2008.
  
• Post Doctoral Researcher , University of California, Riverside CA, 2002 - 2005.
  
• Research Scholar, Institute for Plasma Research, India, 1994-2000.
  
• Lecturer, A. U. College, India, 1993-94.
  

Conference & Session Organization

• 6 th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, "Turbulence and Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas", March 16-22, 2007, Hawaii.
• Organized Sessions in AGU Fall 2007 Meeting, SPA: Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH] TITLE: Solar Wind and Heliospheric Turbulence: Dynamics of Small-Scale Fluctuations.

Book

• Editor of AIP Conference Proceedings on "Turbulence and Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas", 6th Annual International Astrophysics Conference AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 932, 2007 [http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/confproceed/932.jsp]

Review Articles

• P. K. Shukla, B. Eliasson and Dastgeer Shaikh, "Nonlinear Collective Processes in Quantum Plasmas", WS Proceedings, In Press, 2008.
• B. Dasgupta, Dastgeer Shaikh,Q. Hu and Gary P Zank, "Minimum dissipative relaxed states applied to laboratory and space plasmas", J. Plasma Phys., In Press, 2008.
• J. Weiland, Dastgeer Shaikh, R. Moestam, I. Holod, and S. Gupta, "Excitation of zonal flows and fluid closure", J. Plasma fusion Res. Series, 16, Paper I6, 2004.

Representative Presentations and Papers

• Dastgeer Shaikh, "Theory and Simulations of Whistler Wave Propagation", J. Plasma Phys., doi:10.1017/S0022377808007198, 2008.
• Dastgeer Shaikh, B. Dasgupta, Gary P Zank, and Q. Hu, "Theory and Simulations of the Principle of Minimum Dissipation Rate ", Phys. Plasmas, 15, 012306, 2008.
• Dastgeer Shaikh and P. K. Shukla, "Fluid turbulence in quantum plasmas", Phys. Rev. Lett., 99, 125002, 2007.
• Dastgeer Shaikh, "Self-consistent flows in subsonic interstellar medium fluids", Phys. Lett. A., 367, 123-127, 2007.
• Dastgeer Shaikh and G. P. Zank, "Three-dimensional Simulations of Turbulent Spectra in the Local Interstellar Medium", Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 14, 351-359, 2007.
• Dastgeer Shaikh and G. P. Zank, "Passive Convection of Density Fluctuations in the Local Interstellar Medium", AIP Conference Proceedings, 932, 111, 2007.
• Dastgeer Shaikh and G. P. Zank, "Anisotropic Cascades in Interstellar Medium Turbulence.", Astrophysical Journal, 656, L17, 2007.
• G. P. Zank, I. Kryukov, Dastgeer Shaikh, S. Borovikov, X. Ao and N. Pogorelov, "The interaction of turbulence with gas dynamic shocks", AIP Conference Proceedings, 932, 233, 2007.
• Dastgeer Shaikh, "Non-Kolmogorov-type turbulence in the local Interstellar Medium", ASP Conference Series, Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows/Astronum-2007, 385, 50, 2008.
• Peter Hunana, Gary P. Zank, Dastgeer Shaikh, "Hydrodynamic description of solar wind turbulence and large scale inhomogeneity", Phys. Rev. E., 74, 026302, 2006.
• Dastgeer Shaikh and G. P. Zank, "Driven Dissipative Whistler Waves Turbulence", Phys. Plasmas, 12, 122310, 2005.
• Dastgeer Shaikh and G. P. Zank, "Turbulence in nearly incompressible fluids: density spectrum, flows, and correlations and implication to the interstellar medium", Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 12, 139, 2005.
• P. K. Shukla and Dastgeer Shaikh, "Nonlinear Dynamics of Surface Dust Vortex and Dust Zonal Flow Systems", JETP Letters, 82, 188, 2005.
• Dastgeer Shaikh and G. P. Zank, "Anisotropic density fluctuations in the intersterllar medium and the solar wind", Astrophys. J., 604, L125 April 1 2004.
• Dastgeer Shaikh, G. P. Zank and N. Pogorelov, "Self-consistent interaction of neutrals and plasma shocks", AIP Conf. Proc. 719, 323, 2004.
• Dastgeer Shaikh and G. P. Zank, "Density spectrum in the diffuse intersterllar medium and solar wind", Astrophys. J., 602, L29 Feb 10 2004.
• Dastgeer Shaikh and G. P. Zank, "Nonlinear flows in Nearly Incompressible Hydrodynamics fluids", Physical Review E, 69 , 066309 2004.
• Dastgeer Shaikh and G. P. Zank, "Anisotropic turbulence in two dimensional electron magnetohydrodynamics", Astrophys. J. 599 , 715, December 10, 2003.
• Dastgeer Shaikh, S. Mahajan, and J. Weiland, "Zonal flows and transport in Ion Temperature Gradient Mode (ITG) turbulence", Phys. Plasmas, 9, 4911 , 2002.