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Ankit Barik

Planetary Scientist

Professional Summary

I study the fluid dynamics and magnetic fields of planetary and stellar interiors using high-performance MHD simulations, and work as a research software engineer building physics-based simulation pipelines.

Research Interests

Planetary and Stellar Interiors MHD and Dynamo theory Fluid dynamics High performance computing

Codes I Build

MagIC

3D MHD code — used in 170+ papers

Kore

Spectral MHD eigenvalue solver

planetMagFields

Visualize planetary magnetic field data

Technical Skills

Programming & HPC

C, Fortran, Python

MPI / parallel & distributed computing

Bash / HPC cluster workflows

Scientific Software

MagIC (3D pseudo-spectral MHD)

Kore (spectral MHD eigenvalue solver)

GAMERA/Kaiju (finite-volume MHD)

Spectral, finite-volume & finite-element methods

Research Engineering & Tools

Git / GitHub

Dagster & Globus Compute (workflow pipelines)

ParaView / VisIt (3D visualization)

Featured

Our group’s outreach video on the magnetic fields of the planets in our solar system, paired with planetMagFields — an interactive web app for exploring planetary magnetic field data, built on the open-source planetMagFields Python package.

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Publications

Lujendra Ojha, Ankit Barik, Jacob Buffo (2026). Limited direct fluid exchange between the deep subsurface ocean and the shallow subsurface environment of Europa. Nature Astronomy.

Article Metrics DOI

J. R. Fuentes, Ankit Barik, Jim Fuller (2026). Excitation of Inertial Modes in 3D Simulations of Rotating Convection in Planets and Stars. The Astrophysical Journal.

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