Faculty Profile

 
Name : V.K.  Jain
Designation : Professor
Centre :
School : Environmental Sciences
Room No : 305
Off. Phone : 26704322
Residence :
Email : vkj0400@mail.jnu.ac.in   
Web Address : http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/vkjain

Qualifications

D. Phil.(Physics),Sussex University, UK  
                                    

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Instabilities in magnetized Plasmas, Beam Plasma interactions Linear and Nonlinear effects
Air and Noise Pollution, Energy and Climate change 
                                    

Experience

26 years 
                                    

Awards & Honours

National Scholarship holder during the college and university education in India (1966 1972).
Junior Research Fellowship of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India (1972 -1975).
National Scholarship to study abroad from Ministry of Education, Govt. of India (1975 1979). 
                                    

International Collaboration/Consultancy

 
                                    

Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5)
Time Series Models (Grey-Markov, Grey Model with rolling mechanism and Singular Spectrum Analysis) to forecast Energy Consumption in India.
Kumar U. and Jain V.K.
Energy,vol. 35, 1709-1716 (2010). [IF=2.952; C=3].

A Fuzzy Approach for Modeling the Effects of Noise Pollution on Human Performance.
Zaheeruddin and Jain, V. K,
Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, vol. 8, no. 4, p. 442-450 (2004). [IF=3.624; C=0].

Ozone Formation by Fireworks.
Attri, A. K., Kumar, U., Jain, V. K.,
Nature, vol. 411, p. 1015 (2001). [IF=34.480; C=16].

Filamentary Collapse in Electron Beam Plasma.
Christiansen, P. J., Jain, V. K. and Stenflo, L.,
Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 46, p. 1333 (1981). [IF=7.328; C=32].

Excitation of Electron Cyclotron Harmonic Instabilities in a thin Beam Plasma System.
Jain, V. K. and Christiansen, P.J.,
Plasma Phys. and Controlled Fusion, vol. 26, No. 4, p. 613 (1984). [IF=2.409; C=0]. 
                                  

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3)

ARIMA forecasting of ambient air pollutants (O3, NO, NO2 and CO).
Kumar U. and Jain V.K.
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, vol. 24(5), 751-760 (2010). [IF=1.419; C=4].

A Wavelet Based Neural Network Model to Predict Ambient Air Pollutants’ Concentration.
Prakash A., Kumar, U., Kumar, K., and Jain, V. K.
Environmental Modeling & Assessment (Accepted for Publication, 2011).[IF=1.056].

Identification and Characterization of size segregated bio-aerosol over Delhi.
Singh, M., Srivastava, A. and Jain, V. K.
Natural Hazards (Accepted for Publication, 2011).[IF=0.989]. 
                                    

Patents (if any)