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Dr Shimul Maharaj

Unit: Science Research and Applications Position: Research Physicist Qualifications: PhD

Dr Shimul Maharaj was born in Durban and did his schooling and attended university in Pietermaritzburg. He obtained his BSc (1994) and Honours (1995) degrees from the Pietermaritzburg campus of the University of Natal. Subsequently, he moved to Durban and obtained a Masters (1999) from University of Durban-Westville and PhD (2006) from University of KwaZulu-Natal. Prior to obtaining the PhD, he was employed as associate lecturer in Physics at University of Durban-Westville (2000-2002) and then as research assistant at Hermanus Magnetic Observatory in 2003. He is currently employed as Research Physicist at SANSA Space Science and his area of research expertise is the theory of linear and nonlinear waves in space plasmas. His focus is predominantly on plasmas which occur in the near-Earth regions of the magnetosphere but he also has an interest in dusty plasmas which occur much further away from Earth, e.g. in the rings of Saturn.

Research Interests

  • Fluid theory studies of nonlinear waves
  • Kinetic theory of plasma waves
  • Dusty Plasmas
  • Plasma simulations

Publications

Title DOI Number Link
Comment on “Existence domains of slow and fast ion-acoustic solitons in two-ion space plasmas” [Phys. Plasmas 22, 032313(2015)] C. P. Olivier, S. K. Maharaj and R. Bharuthram 10.1063/1.4952639
Ion-acoustic solitons, double layers and supersolitons in a plasma with two-ion and two electron species C. P. Olivier, S. K. Maharaj and R. Bharuthram 10.1063/1.4928884
Arbitrary amplitude slow electron-acoustic solitons in three electron temperature space plasmas L. N. Mbuli, S. K. Maharaj, R. Bharuthram, S. V. Singh and G. S. Lakhina 10.1063/1.4922683
Existence domains of slow and fast ion-acoustic solitons in two-ion space plasmas S. K. Maharaj, R. Bharuthram, S. V. Singh and G. S. Lakhina 10.1063/1.4916319
High and low frequency instabilities driven by counter-streaming electron beams in space plasmas L. N. Mbuli, S. K. Maharaj and R. Bharuthram 10.1063/1.4880055
High and low frequency instabilities driven by a single electron beam in two-electron temperature space plasmas L. N. Mbuli, S. K. Maharaj and R. Bharuthram 10.1063/1.4851995
Existence domains of dust-acoustic solitons and supersolitons S. K. Maharaj, R. Bharuthram, S. V. Singh and G. S. Lakhina 10.1063/1.4818439
Existence domains of arbitrary amplitude nonlinear structures in two-electron temperature space plasmas. II. High-frequency Electron-acoustic solitons S. K. Maharaj, R. Bharuthram, S. V. Singh and G. S. Lakhina 10.1063/1.4769174
Existence domains of arbitrary amplitude nonlinear structures in two-electron temperature space plasmas. I. Low-frequency ion-acoustic solitons S. K. Maharaj, R. Bharuthram, S. V. Singh and G. S. Lakhina 10.1063/1.4737895
A simulation approach of high frequency electrostatic waves found in Saturn’s magnetosphere E. J. Koen, A. B. Collier and S. K. Maharaj 10.1063/1.3695404
Electrostatic solitary waves in a magnetized dusty plasma S. K. Maharaj, R. Bharuthram, S. V. Singh, S. R. Pillay and G. S. Lakhina 10.1063/1.3028313

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