Research Projects

Propagation of electromagnetic waves in the inhomogeneous, magnetized plasma and interactions between these waves and energetic electrons inside the radiation belt are among the most important and interesting problems of modern geophysics.

The interest in these problems is motivated by the novel, frontier physics of wave propagation in highly inhomogeneous, magnetized plasma and by the ability of these waves to interact efficiently with energetic electrons. To study these phenomena, many new, very complex and expensive space and ground-based experiments have been proposed. Obviously, the success of these experiments will strongly depend on comprehensive, detailed numerical simulations of wave dynamics and wave-particle interactions in the magnetosphere. This numerical modeling of waves and particles is the main focus of this project.