David Lund and Robert Foley will join our group. Welcome!
April 26, 2019
David Lund presented our work “Design and Development of Plasma Sources for Laboratory Investigations of Plasma-Material Interactions” at The 28th Annual Spring Meeting of the NASA-Missouri Space Grant Consortium held at Missouri S&T, April 26-27, 2019, Rolla, MO.
March 20, 2019
Zhangli Hu passed the Ph.D. defense. Congratulations to Dr. Hu!
October 5-7, 2018
Dr. Han presented the benchmarking studies on the parallel efficiency of the PIFE-PIC code at the 4th Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section held at Norman, OK.
August, 2018
Terence McGarvey joined our group. Welcome!
June 24-28, 2018
Dr. Han presented two studies at the 45th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2018) held at Denver, CO. One talk focused on “Current Coupling via Electron Emission in Fast and Mesothermal Ion Beams”. The other talk focused on the development progress of the PIFE-PIC code.
June 17, 2018
Our paper, “Immersed Finite Element Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Plasma Charging at the Lunar Terminator”, was published online at AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. [link]
April 9-11, 2018
Dr. Han presented a poster on the PIFE-PIC code at NASA Fundamental Physics Workshop 2018 held at La Jolla, CA.
January 8-12, 2018
Dr. Han presented the first paper about PIFE-PIC code (paper number AIAA-2018-2196 [link]) at AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition 2018 held at Kissimmee, FL.
January 2018
Jianxun Zhao and Blake Folta joined our group. Welcome!