David presented a poster titled “Kinetic Particle Simulations of Charging of Irregularly-Shaped Dust Grains in Low Temperature Collisionless Plasmas” at the 2022 Joint Conference on Electrostatics (ESA 2022), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
June 3, 2022
Six talented UG students – Kevin Marshall, Nick Graham, Easton Ingram, Aaron Berkhoff, and Kostas Kakadiaris of MST, and Tykerria Fowler of Benedict College (through MST’s Summer Engineering Research Academy) – joined our group for summer research projects. Welcome!
June 2, 2022
Jianxun successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Fully Kinetic Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Plasma-Surface-Dust Interactions for Lunar Exploration”. Congratulations to Dr. Zhao!
May 22-26, 2022
Jianxun and David presented our two studies at the 49th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2022) held at Seattle, WA and online. Jianxun’s talk was titled “Development of a Fully Kinetic Particle Simulation Code for Coupled Plasma-Dust Transport”. David’s poster was titled “Kinetic Particle Simulations of Charging of Irregularly-Shaped Dust Grains in Low Temperature Collisionless Plasmas”.
April 20, 2022
Our case study paper co-authored with Prof. Grace Yan of Civil Engineering and titled “Tornado-induced Structural Damage based on Reconnaissance Surveys of 2019 Jefferson City, MO Tornado and Previous Notable Tornadoes” got accepted by Natural Hazards Review!
April 4-8, 2022
Jianxun and David presented our work titled “Development of a fully kinetic particle simulation code for coupled plasma-dust transport” at the 16th Spacecraft Charging and Technology Conference (SCTC).
March 16, 2022
Jacob has been awarded the Kummer Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Fellowship to study Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering in the Fall! Congratulations!
February 28, 2022
Dr. Han gave an invited talk titled “Kinetic Particle Simulations of Plasma Charging and Dust Transport near the Lunar Terminator” at Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) Extreme Environments – Space Weather / Plasma Environments group meeting.
February 18, 2022
A project on Moon mining – use magnetic and electrostatic technologies to more efficiently separate calcium- and aluminum-containing minerals from the lunar regolith – led by Dr. Leslie Gertsch, is selected for funding by NASA. [link]
February 12, 2022
Our paper first-authored by David and titled “Weak Scaling of the Parallel Immersed Finite Element Particle-in-Cell (PIFE-PIC) Framework with Lunar Plasma Charging Simulations” got accepted by the journal Computational Particle Mechanics! [link]