Nitish Acharya

Nitish is pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester. His research interests are in high-energy density hydrodynamics, and is co-advised by Hussein Aluie. He is working on experiments and simulations on shock-particle interactions and perturbed shocks, using the FLASH and LILAC codes, and has PI’ed and co-PI’ed campaigns on OMEGA, OMEGA-EP, and the Jupiter Laser Facility. He is also a Frank J. Horton Graduate Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. He previously earned a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Tribhuvan University in Nepal.  Nitish gave an invited talk at the 14th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA) in 2024.

Publications

Numerical investigation of laser-driven shock interaction with a deformable particle

Physics of Plasmas

N. Acharya, H. Aluie, and J. K. Shang