Blake successfully defended his M.S. thesis titled “Characterization of a Plasma Source Simulating Solar Wind Plasma in a Vacuum Chamber”. Congratulations to Blake!
August 13, 2020
Our paper co-authored with Prof. Du of IUPUI and titled “Approximation to Multivariate Normal Integral and Its Application in Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis” got accepted by the journal Structural Safety! [link]
May 12, 2020
Our Experiment Team led by Terry and Blake successfully demonstrated an interesting concept of using solar wind plasma as direct ISRU electricity power source – through lighting up an LED inside the plasma chamber!
May 7, 2020
Kyle McMillen won the Second Prize at the 2020 Fuller Prize Competition for Undergraduate Research organized by Missouri S&T’s Physics department. Congratulations to Kyle! [link]
February 11-13, 2020
Terry and Blake presented our experimental work at The Impact of Lunar Dust on Human Exploration Workshop held at Houston, Texas.
January 6-10, 2020
Our group attended the AIAA SciTech Forum 2020. David, Terry and Blake, and Jianxun did a great job presenting our papers on both numerical and experimental fronts!
October 28-30, 2019
Dr. Han attended the Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group held at Washington, D.C. with the support from the LEAG Bernard Ray Hawke Next Lunar Generation Career Development Award, sponsored by NASA SSERVI. [link]
October 23, 2019
First successful firing of our RF plasma source in the vacuum chamber! Congratulations to our Experiment Team!
October 20, 2019
David Lund presented our work “Fully Kinetic PIFE-PIC Simulations of Plasma Charging at Lunar Craters” at The 5th Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section held at Iowa State University, October 19-20, 2019, Ames, IA.
September, 2019
Group members are awarded the Missouri Space Grant Consortium scholarships/fellowships. Congratulations and Good Job!