Publications

Journal Articles

  • Matthew Carrier, William Farmer, Aidan Klemmer, Seth Kreher, Bruno Bauer, Bhuvana Srinivasan. “The Effect of Surface Roughness on Phase Transition Timing in Megaampere Pulsed-Power–Driven Exploding Conductors.” Physics of Plasmas 30 no. 9 (2023): 092108. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0159797
  • Yuzhi Li, Bhuvana Srinivasan, Yanzeng Zhang, Xian-Zhu Tang. “The plasma-sheath transition and Bohm criterion in a high recycling divertor.” Physics of Plasmas 30 no. 6 (2023): 063505. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0147580
  • Petr Cagas, James Juno, Ammar Hakim, Andrew LaJoie, Feng Chu, Samuel Langendorf, Bhuvana Srinivasan. “An investigation of shock formation vs shock mitigation of colliding plasma jets.”Physics of Plasmas 30 no. 5 (2023): 053903. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0135389
  • Lujain Almarhabi, Chirag Skolar, Wayne Scales, and Bhuvana Srinivasan. “Nonlinear Three-Dimensional Simulations of the Gradient Drift and Secondary Kelvin–Helmholtz Instabilities in Ionospheric Plasma Clouds.”Atmosphere: Special Issue on Ionospheric Science and Ionosonde Applications 14, no. 4 (2023): 676. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14040676
  • R. Skolar, K. Bradshaw*, J. Juno, B. Srinivasan. “Continuum kinetic investigation of the impact of bias potentials in the current saturation regime on sheath formation.”Physics of Plasmas 30 no. 1 (2023): 012504. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0134656
  • Yanzeng Zhang, Yuzhi Li, Bhuvana Srinivasan, and Xian-Zhu Tang. “Resolving the mystery of electron perpendicular temperature spike in the plasma sheath.”Physics of Plasmas 30, no. 3 (2023): 033504. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0132612
  • Yuzhi Li, Bhuvana Srinivasan, Yanzeng Zhang, and Xian-Zhu Tang. “Transport physics dependence of Bohm speed in presheath–sheath transition.” Physics of Plasmas 29, no. 11 (2022): 113509. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0110379
  • John Rodman, Petr Cagas, Ammar Hakim, and Bhuvana Srinivasan. “A kinetic interpretation of the classical Rayleigh-Taylor instability.” Physical Review E 105 (2022): 065209. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.105.065209
  • Liang Wang, Ammar Hakim, James Juno, and Bhuvana Srinivasan. “Electron cyclotron drift instability and anomalous transport: two-fluid moment theory and modeling.” Plasma Sources Science and Technology 31, no. 10 (2022): 105001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ac90e7
  • Y. Li, B. Srinivasan, Y. Zhang, and X.-Z. Tang. “Bohm criterion of plasma sheaths away from asymptotic limit.” Physical Review Letters 128 (2022): 085002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.085002
  • R. K. Bera, Y. Song, and B. Srinivasan. “The effect of viscosity and resistivity on Rayleigh–Taylor instability induced mixing in magnetized high-energy-density plasmas.” Journal of Plasma Physics 88, no. 2 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377821001343
  • L. Almarhabi, C. R. Skolar, W. Scales, and B. Srinivasan. “Investigating the impact of the latitudinal velocity profile on nonlinear gradient drift instability development in the subauroral ionosphere.” Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids (2022): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10420150.2022.2063126
  • C. Samulski, B. Srinivasan, MJ-E. Manuel, R. Masti, J. P. Sauppe, and J. Kline. “Deceleration-stage Rayleigh–Taylor growth in a background magnetic field studied in cylindrical and Cartesian geometries.” Matter and Radiation at Extremes 7, no. 2 (2022): 026902. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0062168
  • R. L. Masti, C. L. Ellison, W. A. Farmer, K. Tummel, and B. Srinivasan. “The effect of anomalous resistivity on fast electrothermal instability.” Physics of Plasmas 28, no. 10 (2021): 102106. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0059754
  • C. Rathod, B. Srinivasan, and W. Scales. “Modeling the dominance of the gradient drift or Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in sheared ionospheric E× B flows.” Physics of Plasmas 28, no. 5 (2021): 052903. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0047807
  • R. L. Masti, C. L. Ellison, J. R. King, P. H. Stoltz, and B. Srinivasan. “Cross-code verification and sensitivity analysis to effectively model the electrothermal instability.” High Energy Density Physics 38 (2021): 100925. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hedp.2021.100925
  • Chirag Rathod, Bhuvana Srinivasan, W. Scales, and B. Kunduri. “Investigation of the gradient drift instability as a cause of density irregularities in subauroral polarization streams.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 126, no. 5 (2021): e2020JA029027. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA029027
  • Yang Song and Bhuvana Srinivasan. “An efficient reconstruction algorithm for diffusion on triangular grids using the nodal discontinuous Galerkin method.” Computer Physics Communications 264 (2021): 107873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2021.107873
  • Petr Cagas, Ammar H. Hakim, and Bhuvana Srinivasan. “A boundary value “reservoir problem” and boundary conditions for multi-moment multifluid simulations of sheaths.” Physics of Plasmas 28, no. 1 (2021): 014501. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0024510
  • Yang Song and Bhuvana Srinivasan. “A survey of the effects of magnetic fields, resistivity, viscosity and thermal conduction on the Rayleigh–Taylor instability.” Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 175, no. 11-12 (2020): 1009-1014. https://doi.org/10.1080/10420150.2020.1845692
  • Chirag Rathod, Lee Kordella, Wayne Scales, Greg Earle, and Bhuvana Srinivasan. “Likelihood of gradient drift instability development during the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse.” Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 175, no. 1-2 (2020): 136-140.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10420150.2020.1718138
  • Petr Cagas, Ammar Hakim, Bhuvana Srinivasan. “Plasma-material boundary conditions for discontinuous Galerkin continuum-kinetic simulations, with a focus on secondary electron emission”. Journal of Computational Physics 406 (2020): 109215.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2019.109215
  • Jacob King, Robert Masti, Bhuvana Srinivasan, and Kris Beckwith. “Multidimensional tests of a finite-volume solver for MHD with a real-gas equation of state.” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 48, no. 4 (2020): 902-913. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2020.2981238
  • Sauppe, J. P., S. Palaniyappan, E. N. Loomis, J. L. Kline, K. A. Flippo, and B. Srinivasan. “Using cylindrical implosions to investigate hydrodynamic instabilities in convergent geometry.” Matter and Radiation at Extremes 4, no. 6 (2019): 065403.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5090999
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan, Petr Cagas, Robert Masti, Chirag Rathod, Rajath Shetty, and Yang Song. “A survey of fluid and kinetic instabilities relevant to space and laboratory plasmas”. Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 174.1-2 (2019): 31-45.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10420150.2019.1577853
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan and Ammar Hakim. “Role of electron inertia and electron/ion finite Larmor radius effects in low-beta, magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability”. Physics of Plasmas 25 (2018): 092108. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5046098
  • Petr Cagas, Ammar Hakim, Wayne Scales, and Bhuvana Srinivasan. “Nonlinear saturation of the Weibel instability”. Physics of Plasmas 24.11 (2017): 112116. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4994682
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan, Petr Cagas, Robert Masti, Chirag Rathod, and Yang Song. “Fluid and kinetic simulations of plasma instabilities”. Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 172.9-10 (2017): 723–727. https://doi.org/10.1080/10420150.2017.1398247
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan, Wayne Scales, Petr Cagas, and Colin Glesner. “Recent advances in plasma modeling for space applications”. Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 172.1-2 (2017): 74– 80. https://doi.org/10.1080/10420150.2017.1286659
  • Petr Cagas, Ammar Hakim, James Juno, and Bhuvana Srinivasan. “Continuum kinetic and multi-fluid simulations of classical sheaths”. Physics of Plasmas 24.2 (2017): 022118. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4976544
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan, Grigory Kagan, and Colin S Adams. “Multi-fluid studies of plasma shocks relevant to inertial confinement fusion”. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 717.1 (2016): 012054. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/717/1/012054
  • Grigory Kagan, HW Herrmann, Y-H Kim, MJ Schmitt, P Hakel, SC Hsu, NM Hoffman, D Svyatsky, SD Baalrud, JO Daligault, H. Sio, A. B. Zylstra, M. J. Rosenberg, H. G. Rinderknecht, M. Gatu Johnson, J. A. Frenje, F. H. Seguin, C. K. Li, R. D. Petrasso, B. J. Albright, W. Taitano, G.A. Kyrala, P. A. Bradley, C.-K. Huang, C. J. McDevitt, L. Chacon, B. Srinivasan, A. M. McEvoy, T. R. Joshi, and C. Adams. “Kinetic studies of ICF implosions”. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 717.1 (2016): 012027. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/717/1/012027
  • Xian-Zhu Tang, Zehua Guo, Grigory Kagan, Christopher McDevitt, and Bhuvana Srinivasan. “Plasma physics effects on thermonuclear burn rate in the presence of hydrodynamic mix”. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 688.1 (2016): 012123. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/688/1/012123
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan and Xian-Zhu Tang. “Role of hydrodynamic instability growth in hot-spot mass gain and fusion performance of inertial confinement fusion implosions”. Physics of Plasmas 21.10 (2014): 102704. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4897938
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan and Xian-Zhu Tang. “Mitigating hydrodynamic mix at the gas-ice interface with a combination of magnetic, ablative, and viscous stabilization”. EPL (Europhysics Letters) 107.6 (2014): 65001. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/107/65001
  • Katerina Falk, EJ Gamboa, G Kagan, DS Montgomery, B. Srinivasan, P Tzeferacos, and JF Benage. “Equation of state measurements of warm dense carbon using laser-driven shock and release technique”. Physical Review Letters 112.15 (2014): 155003. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.155003
  • Katerina Falk, Lee A Collins, Eliseo J Gamboa, Grigory Kagan, Joel D Kress, David S Montgomery, Bhuvana Srinivasan, Petros Tzeferacos, and John F Benage. “Combined x-ray scattering, radiography, and velocity interferometry/streaked optical pyrometry measurements of warm dense carbon using a novel technique of shock-and-release”. Physics of Plasmas 21.5 (2014): 056309. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4876613
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan and Xian-Zhu Tang. “The mitigating effect of magnetic fields on Rayleigh-Taylor unstable inertial confinement fusion plasmas”. Physics of Plasmas 20.5 (2013): 056307. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4803092
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan and Xian-Zhu Tang. “Mechanism for magnetic field generation and growth in Rayleigh-Taylor unstable inertial confinement fusion plasmas”. Physics of Plasmas 19.8 (2012): 082703. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4742176
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan, Guy Dimonte, and Xian-Zhu Tang. “Magnetic field generation in Rayleigh-Taylor unstable inertial confinement fusion plasmas”. Physical Review Letters 108.16 (2012): 165002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.165002
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan and Uri Shumlak. “Analytical and computational study of the ideal full two-fluid plasma model and asymptotic approximations for Hall-magnetohydrodynamics”. Physics of Plasmas 18.9 (2011): 092113. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3640811
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan, Ammar Hakim, and Uri Shumlak. “Numerical methods for two-fluid dispersive fast MHD phenomena”. Communications in Computational Physics 10.1 (2011): 183–215. https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.230909.020910a
  • Uri Shumlak, R Lilly, N Reddell, E Sousa, and B. Srinivasan. “Advanced physics calculations using a multi-fluid plasma model”. Computer Physics Communications 182.9 (2011): 1767–1770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2010.12.048

Theses and Dissertations

Conference Proceedings

  • Petr Cagas, Bhuvana Srinivasan, and Ammar Hakim, “Hall thruster relevant continuum kinetic sheaths simulations with self-consistent secondary electron emission”, In: 54th AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference. 2018, p. 4810. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-4810
  • Petr Cagas, Bhuvana Srinivasan, and Ammar Hakim. “Continuum kinetic simulations of magnetized sheaths in Hall thrusters with secondary electron emission”. In: 53rd AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference. 2017, p. 4631. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2017-4631
  • Petr Cagas, Bhuvana Srinivasan, and Ammar Hakim. “Continuum kinetic study of magnetized sheaths for use in Hall thrusters”. In: 52nd AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference. 2016, p. 4619. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2016-4619
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan, Uri Shumlak, and Ammar Hakim. “Comparisons and applications of two-fluid plasma algorithms”. In: AIAA Plasmadynamics Conference Proceedings. 2008. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2008-3787
  • Bhuvana Srinivasan and Uri Shumlak. “Comparisons of two-fluid plasma models”. In: DoD HPCMP Users Group Conference, 2008. DOD HPCMP UGC. IEEE. 2008, pp. 109–113. Available here