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- Ph.D. in Physics, University of Pune, INDIA, 2003
- M.Sc. in Physics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1986
- B.Sc. in Physics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1985
Dr. Gurudas Mandal is a Professor of Physics in the Department of Mathematical & Physical Sciences at East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he has been a faculty member since 2003. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pune, India, in the same year 2003. Dr. Mandal's research interests span atmospheric electricity, cosmology, and dusty plasma physics. He has published over 35 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and has reviewed numerous journal articles. Beyond his teaching and research, he has been serving the department as the chairperson, contributing to its academic growth and development.
Professor, Department of Mathematical & Physical Sciences,
East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. June 2016 - Present
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical & Physical Sciences,
East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. April 2010 - June 2016
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical & Physical Sciences,
East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. October 2005 - April 2010
Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematical & Physical Sciences,
East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sept 2003 - Sept. 2005
- Plasma Physics: Dusty plasma physics is a specialized branch of plasma physics that focuses on plasmas containing electron, ions and charged less dust particles suspended in the ionized gas. These dust particles interact with the surrounding plasma through electrostatic forces, leading to unique behaviors and phenomena. Dusty plasmas are found in many natural environments, such as in space and in cometary tails, and are also found in laboratory. The study of dusty plasmas provides insights into fundamental plasma dynamics, as well as practical applications in materials science, space exploration, and industrial processes involving plasma-based technologies.
- Cloud Electrification: Cloud electrification refers to the process by which clouds accumulate electrical charges, leading to the development of lightning and thunder. This phenomenon occurs primarily in convective clouds, such as thunderclouds, where the movement of supercooled water droplets, ice crystals, and snow particles causes collisions that transfer electrical charge. As a result, different regions of the cloud acquire positive or negative charges, creating an electric field strong enough to trigger lightning discharges, either within the cloud, between clouds, or to the ground. Understanding cloud electrification is essential for predicting and mitigating the effects of thunderstorms and lightning-related hazards.
International:
1. A. Paul, G. Mandal, M. R. Amin and P. Chatterjee, "Nonlinear Propagation of Dust-Acoustic Waves in An Unmagnetized Collisional Dusty Plasma with Both Nonthermal Electron and Ion Distribution for Damped Korteweg-De Vries Equation", Jurnal Fizik Malaysia, Vol. 42 Issue 1, pp. 10001-10010, 2021.
2. Amna Alia, Sabiruddin Mollaa , Farook Rahaman, Ruhul Amin, Gurudas Mandal, Saibal Ray, “Dilaton-Axion Black Hole under the Solar System Tests”, New Astronomy, Vol 83, February, 101494, 2021.
3. A. Paul, G. Mandal, M. R. Amin, P. Chatterjee, “Analysis of Solution of Damped Modified-KdV Equation on Dust-Ion-Acoustic Wave in Presence of Superthermal Electrons”, Plasma Physics Report, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 83-89, 2020.
4. A. Paul, G. Mandal, A. A. Mamun and M. R. Amin, “Effects of vortex-like ion distribution on dust-acoustic solitary waves in a self-gravitating opposite polarity dusty plasmas”, Physics in Wave Phenomena, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 261-267, 2019.
5. G. Mandal, M. Asaduzzaman, “Effects of non-extensive Q-distributed electrons on dust ion acoustic shock structures in an unbounded dusty plasma with two thermal states of electrons”, Int’l J. Advances in Sci. Eng. and Technology, Vol. 7, issue 1, sp. Issue 2(March 2019), pp. 19-22, 2019. (http://iraj.in/journal/IJASEAT/volume.php?volume_id=553)
6. Kaushik Roy, Gurudas Mandal, Malay Kumar Ghorui, Uday Narayan Ghosh and Prasanta Chatterjee, “Collisions of Ion Acoustic Multi-solitons in Electron- Positron-Ion Plasma with the Presence of Nonthermal Nonextensive Electrons”, Jurnal Fizik Malaysia, Vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 10041-10053, 2018
7. A. Paul, G. Mandal, A A Mamun and M. R. Amin, “The Modulation of a Dust Ion-Acoustic Wave in a Collisional Dusty Plasma”, Advances in Astrophysics, Vol. 3, no.3, pp. 171-184, 2018.
8. G. Mandal, A. Paul, K Roy and M. Asaduzzaman, “Small And Arbitrary Amplitude Dust-Acoustic Solitary Waves With Nonextensive Electrons And Vortex-like Distributed Ions” , Journal Fizik Malaysia, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 01001-010015 (2017).
9. G. Mandal, U. N. Ghosh and M. Asaduzzaman, “Asymptotically Stable Electromagnetic Shock Waves in Relativistic Plasmas”, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 148-153 (2017).
10. Gurudas Mandal, Kaushik Roy, Anindita Paul, Asit Saha and Prasanta Chatterjee, "Overtaking collision and phase shifts of dust acoustic multi-soliton in a four component dusty plasma with non-thermal”, Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung A (ZNA), Vol. 70(9)a, pp. 703-711 (2015)
11. Gurudas Mandal and N. Y. Tanisha, "Analysis of nonlinear dust-acoustic shock waves in an unmagnetized dusty plasma with q-nonextensive electrons where dusts are arbitrarily charged fluid", Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 97-104 (2015)
12. S Ashraf, Gurudas Mandal and A A Mamun, "Nonplanar wave propagation in plasma systems with nonextensivity", Physical Sci. Intl. J.,(Sciencedomain International, INDIA), Vol 6(4), 236-244, 2015.
13. Gurudas Mandal, Kaushik Roy, Anindita Paul and Prasanta Chatterjee, "Large amplitude solitary waves in a four component dusty plasma with vortex like (Trapped) electron distributions", Journal of Science and Technology in the Tropics (JOSTT), Vol. 10 (2), 109-122 (2014).
14. Gurudas Mandal, S. Ashraf and A A Mamun, "Dust Ion Acoustic Waves Propagation with Degenerate Ions and Nonextensive Electrons", Intl. J. Scientific & Engineering Res. (IJSER), Volume 5, Issue 7, 1425-1437 (2014)
15. A. Paul, G. Mandal, A. A. Mamun and M. R. Amin, “Nonlinear ion modes in a dense multi-ion plasma with strongly coupled ions and degenerate electrons”, Journal of Science & Technology in the Tropics (JOSTT), Vol. 10, PP 45-58 (2014).
16. A. Paul, G. Mandal, A. A. Mamun and M. R. Amin, “Nonlinear propagation of dust-acoustic waves in an unmagnetized dusty plasma with nonthermal electron and vortex-like ion distribution”, Physics of Plasma, Vol. 20, 104505 (2013).
17. Dev Kumar, Gurudas Mandal, Prasanta Chatterjee and Uday N. Ghosh, “Nonplanar ion acoustic solitary waves in e-p-i plasma with warm ions, and electron and positron following q-nonextensive velocity distribution”, IEEE Trans. Plasma Science, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp 1600-1606 (2013).
18. Kaushik Roy, Anindita Paul, Gurudas Mandal and Prasanta Chatterjee, “Effects of kappa-distributed electrons on ion-acoustic shock waves in an e-p-i plasma in non-planar geometry”, J. of Int’l Academy of Physical Sciences, Vol. 17 No. 2, pp. 1-9 (2013).
19. Farook Rahman, P.K.F. Kuhfittig, Ruhul Amin, Gurudas Mandal, Saibal Ray and Nasarul Islam, “Quark matter as dark matter in modeling galactic halos”, Physics Letters B, Vol. 714, No. 2-5, pp. 131-135 (2012).
20. A. Paul, G. Mandal, M. M. Mamun and M. R. Amin, “Effects of non-thermal ions on dust-ion-acoustic shock waves in a dusty plasma with heavy negative ions in non-planar geometry”, Journal of Science and Technology in the Tropics (JOSTT), Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 41-51 (2012).
21. Prasanta Chatteree, Ganesh Mondal, Gurudas Mandal and C S Wong, “Dust acoustic dressed solitons in a four component dusty plasma with superthermal electrons”, Journal of Science and Technology in the Tropics (JOSTT), Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp 29-40 (2012).
22. A. Paul, G. Mandal, A. A. Mamun and M. R. Amin, “Effects of Nonthermal Ions on Dust-Ion-Acoustic Shock Waves in a Dusty Electronegative Plasma”, IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science, Vo. 39, No. 5, 1254-1258 (2011).
23. M. R. Amin, Sanjit K. Paul, Gurudas Mandal and A. A. Mamun, “Effects of vortex-like (trapped) electron distribution on nonlinear dust-acoustic waves with positive dust charge fluctuation”, Journal of Plasma Phys., Vol. 76, No. 3 & 4, pp. 477- 485 (2010).
24. Gurudas Mandal and Prasanta Chatterjee, “Shock Waves in a Dusty Plasma with Positive and Negative Dust where Ions are Non-thermal”, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung (ZNA), Germany, Vol. 65a, 85-90 (2010).
25. Sanjit K. Paul, Gurudas Mandal, A. A. Mamun and M. R. Amin, "Shock waves in plasmas with charge fluctuating dust of opposite polarity", Jurnal Fizik Malaysia, Vol. 30, No.1-4, 29-36 (2009).
26. Sanjit K. Paul, Gurudas Mandal, A A Mamun, and M R Amin, “Dust-acoustic Shock Waves in a Dusty Plasma with Dust-charge Fluctuation”, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 37, No. 4, 627-631, 2009
27. Gurudas Mandal, Kaushik Roy, and Prasanta Chatterjee, “Large amplitude Double layer in four component Dusty Plasma with non-thermal ions”, Indian Journal of Physics, Vol. 83(3), 365-374(2009).
28. K. Roy, Gurudas Mandal, P. Chatterjee, “Solitary waves in a Four Component Dusty Plasma with Nonthermal Electron”, Wesleyan Journal of Research, Vol. 1, pp. 59-65 (2008)
29. Gurudas Mandal and P. Pradeep Kumar, “A laboratory study on the effect of sulfuric acid on charge transfer during ice-graupel collision”, Indian J. Phys., Vol. 78(6), 439-444 (2004).
30. Gurudas Mandal and P. Pradeep Kumar, “Laboratory studies on the effect of external electric fields and discharges on charge transfer during ice- hail collision”, Indian J. Phys., Vol. 78B(1), 39-45 (2004).
31. Gurudas Mandal and P. Pradeep Kumar, “A laboratory study of ice nucleation due to electrical discharge”, Atmospheric Research (Elsevier, Netherlands), Vol. 61(2), 115-123 (2002)
32. Farida Majid, Gurudas Mandal and A A Mamun, “Relativistic Filamentation instability in an unmagnetized laser-produced plasma”, Jahangirnagar Rev. Part A (12), 87-99 (1988)
33. Farida Majid, Gurudas Mandal and M. Salimullah, “Relativistic harmonic generation in a laser-produced plasma”, Nuovo Cimento (Italy) IL, D (12), 293 (1989).
Prof. Dr. Gurudas Mandal attended an international conference “International Conference on Recent Advances in Renewable Energy (RARE 2020)”, 7-9th February 2020, at NITK, Surathkal, India as a keynote speaker. He delivered his keynote speech on “Prospects of renewable energy sector in Bangladesh” in the conference. He also served as the program chair in one of the sessions. Dr. Gurudas Mandal was very delighted as the conference authority offered him to be the chief guest in the closing ceremony of the conference
1. Gurudas Mandal and M. Asaduzzaman, ” Effects of non-extensive q-distributed electrons on dust ion acoustic shock structures in an unbounded dusty plasma with two thermal states of electrons” International Conference on Applied Physics and Mathematics (ICAPM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 18-19, 2018, pp 28-31.
2. A. Paul, G. Mandal and M. R. Amin, ” Modulation of heavy nucleus acoustic wave in a degenerate relativistic plasma” International Conference of International Academy of Physical Sciences(CONIAPS XXIII), Kathmandu, Nepal, November 16-18, 2018.
3. A. Paul, G. Mandal, A. A. Mamun and M. R. Amin, “Effects of vortex-like ion distribution on dust-acoustic solitary waves in a self-gravitating opposite polarity dust plasma medium”, International Conference on Recent Advances in Mathematics and Physical Sciences (ICRAMPS), Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, January 27-29, 2018.
4. A. Paul, G. Mandal, A. A. Mamun, and M. R. Amin, “Nonlinear propagation of dust-acoustic waves in self-gravitating opposite polarity dusty plasma with Maxwellian ion and Nonthermal electron distribution” International conference on Engineering and natural Science (ICENS), Bali, Indonesia, January 19-21, 2017, pp. 54-64.
5. G. Mandal, Tanisha, N Y., Sultana, S. and Mamun A. A. “Dust-Ion-Acoustic Shock Waves in a Multi Component Dusty Plasma with Positive and Negative Ions” in the proceedings of International Conference on Engineering and Natural Science (ICENS), Kyoto, Japan, July 12-14, 2016, pp 620-630.
6. G. Mandal, and Tanisha, N Y. “Analysis of nonlinear dust-acoustic shock waves in an unmagnetized dusty plasma with q-nonextensive electrons where dust are arbitrarily charged fluid”, International Conference on Astrophysics and Space Science (APSS), Shanghai, China, January 31 to February 2, 2015.
7. G. Mandal and P. Pradeep Kumar, “Laboratory experiments on charge transfer during ice-hail collisions”, XI National Space Science Symposium (NSSS-2K), Puri, India, March 1-4, 2000.
1. Received ICCR scholarship for pursuing Ph. D. in Physics.
2. Received “United Group Paper Award 2016” for the following publication, A. Paul. G. Mandal, A. A. Mamun and M. R. Amin, "Nonlinear propagation of dust-acoustic waves in an unmagnetized dusty plasma with nonthermal electron and vortex-like ion distribution", Physics of Plasma, 20, 104505, 2013.
3. East West University awarded crest in one occasion on Foundation Day for publication of journal articles.
Teaching of different Physics courses (PHY107, PHY109, PHY209, PHY212).
Life member of Bangladesh Physical Society
