Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Krishan Khurana 6863 Slichter Halll
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567
Phone: (310) 825-8240
FAX: (310) 206-8042
kkhurana@igpp.ucla.eduIGPP Publications On-Line Documents Other Things Professor of Space Physics in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (Space Science Center), at UCLA.
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Krishan Khurana received his first Ph.D. degree from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India in 1981 in the field of developing automated data processing techniques for exploration magnetic data. He subsequently embarked on a second Ph.D. program in the field of magnetohydrodynamics of rotating fluids at Durham University, England which he successfully completed in 1984. Since 1985, he has been working at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA as a Research Geophysicist and is currently a co-investigator on the MAG investigation onboard Galileo.
He has worked on many theoretical and empirical investigations relating to the magnetospheres of Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn. Some of the recent problems he has studied include, magnetospheric convection in the presence of IMF By, development of new theoretical models for flux ropes, a new semi-theoretical model for the structure of the Venusian bow shock, ULF waves in outer magnetosphers, the sturcture and composition of the Jovian plasma sheet, and the maintenance of corotation in the Jovian magnetosphere.
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Khurana, K.K. and M.G. Kivelson. "Ultra Low Frequency MHD Waves in Jupiter's Middle Magnetosphere", J. Geophys. Res., 94:5241 (1989).
Khurana, K.K. and M.G. Kivelson. "On Jovian Plasma Sheet Structure", J. Geophys. Res., 94:11791 (1989).
Khurana, K.K. "A Generalized Hinged-Magnetodisc Model of Jupiter's Nightside Current Sheet", J. Geophys. Res., 97:6269 (1992).
Khurana, K.K. and M.G. Kivelson. "Inference of the Angular Velocity of Plasma in the Jovian Magnetosphere from the Sweepback of Magnetic Field", J. Geophys. Res., 67 (1993).
Khurana, K.K. and M.G. Kivelson. "A Variable Cross-Section Model of the Bow Shock of Venus", J. Geophys. Res., 99:8505 (1994).
Khurana, K.K., M.G. Kivelson, L.A. Frank, and W.R. Paterson. "Observations of Magnetic Flux Ropes and Associated Currents in Earth's Magnetotail with the Galileo Spacecraft", J. Geophys. Res. Lett., 22:2087 (1995).
Khurana, K.K., M.G. Kivelson, and L.A. Frank. "The Relationship of Magnetic Flux Ropes to Substorms", Adv. in Space Res., 18:59 (1995).
Kivelson, M.G. and K.K. Khurana."Models of Flux Ropes embedded in a Harris Neutral Sheet: Force Free Solutions in Low and High Beta Plasmas", J. Geophys. Res., 100:23,637 (1995).
Khurana, K.K., R.J. Walker, and T. Ogino. "Magnetospheric Convection in the Presence of IMF By: A Conceptual Model and Simulations", J. Geophys. Res., 101:4907 (1996).
Khurana, K.K., M.G. Kivelson, C.T. Russell, R.J. Walker, and D.J. Southwood. "Absence of an Internal Magnetic Field at Callisto", Nature, Vol. 387:262-264 (May 1997)
Khurana, K.K. "Euler Potential Models of Jupiter's Magnetospheric Field", Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 102, No. A6:11,295-11306 (June 1, 1997).
