Our proposal titled “Collaborative Research: Lab-Data-Enabled Modeling, Numerical Methods, and Validation for a Three-Dimensional Interface Inverse Problem for Plasma-Material Interactions” is selected for funding by NSF. [link]
April 30, 2021
Jianxun Zhao successfully passed the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam. Congratulations!
March 8, 2021
Our paper co-authored with Prof. Yan of Civil Engineering and titled “A review of approaches to simulate windborne debris dynamics in wind fields” got accepted by the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics! [link]
February 22, 2021
Our paper co-authored with Prof. He of Mathematics and Prof. Zhang of Oklahoma State, titled “PIFE-PIC: Parallel Immersed-Finite-Element Particle-in-Cell for 3-D Kinetic Simulations of Plasma-Material Interactions” got accepted by SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC)!
January 11-15, 2021
Our group attended the virtual AIAA SciTech Forum 2021. David and Jianxun did a great job presenting our papers on the numerical modeling and simulation fronts!
November 23, 2020
Our paper co-authored with Prof. Du of IUPUI and titled “Physics-Based Gaussian Process Method for Predicting Average Product Lifetime in Design Stage” got accepted by the Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering! [link]
November 2, 2020
Our paper co-authored with Prof. Du of IUPUI and titled “Adaptive Kriging Method for Uncertainty Quantification of the Photoelectron Sheath and Dust Levitation on the Lunar Surface” got accepted by the ASME Journal of Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification! [link]
October 12, 2020
Xinpeng successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Time- and Space-Dependent Uncertainty Analysis and its Application in Lunar Plasma Environment Modeling”. Congratulations to Dr. Wei!
September 30, 2020
We are going to start an exciting project upgrading the large vacuum facility with thermal-cycling and more plasma/diagnostic systems through an AFOSR DURIP grant! [link]
September 24, 2020
Group members are awarded the Missouri Space Grant Consortium scholarships/fellowships. Congratulations and Good Job!