CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS:
- Juan Barbarena
- Juyoen Lee
- Navheen Murugesan
- Mammadbabhir Baghirzade
- Sai Vishnu Varadhan Korsipati
POST-DOCS / VISITING RESEARCHERS:
- Dr. Jichul Shin
- Dr. Malamas Tsagkaridis (Oden Inst., part supervision)
M.S. SUPERVISION COMPLETED:
- Morrison, Brandon, “Direct Simulation Monte Carlo modeling of effusion source vapor plumes used in thin-film deposition processes” M.S. Thesis, Colorado School of Mines, June 2002.
- Jichul Shin, “Experimental study of pulse-phenomena in helium dielectric-barrier atmospheric pressure glow discharge”, MSE Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2003.
- Stephen Yeldell, “Experimental studies of a novel microdischarge plasma thruster” MSE Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Aug. 2006.
- Shankar Mahadevan, “Simulation of supersonic flow phenomena in the presence of direct-current surface plasma actuators” MSE Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2006.
- Javan M. Albright, “Simulations of the Plasma Existing Between the Rail-Armature Interface in Railguns,” MSE Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2009.
- Timothy T. Min, “Computational Studies of Electron Transport and Reaction Rate Models for Argon Plasma,” MSE Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Aug. 2010.
- Thirupathiraj Sudharshanraj “Computational Studies of Electron Transport and Reaction Rate Models for Argon Plasma,” MSE Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Aug. 2021.
- Roman Stromeyer “Computational Studies of Electron Transport and Reaction Rate Models for Argon Plasma,” MSE Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2021.
PH.D. SUPERVISION COMPLETED:
- Xiaohui Yuan, “One-dimensional simulation study of atmospheric-pressure glow discharges”, Ph.D Dissertation, Colorado School of Mines, Dec. 2005.
- Prashanth Kothnur, “Simulation of Direct Current Microdischarges for Microthruster Applications” Ph. D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2006.
- Jichul Shin, “A study of direct-current surface discharge plasma for a Mach 3 supersonic flow actuation,”D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Aug. 2007.
- Guangye Chen, “Particle modeling of the VASIMR propulsion helicon discharge,”D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Aug. 2008.
- Thomas Deconinck, “Simulation studies of direct-current microdischarges for electric propulsion,”D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2008.
- Daniel F. Berisford, “Thermal phenomena and power balance in a helicon plasma,” Ph. D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2009.
- Shankar Mahadevan, “Simulation of Direct-Current Surface Plasma Discharges in Air for Supersonic Flow Control,” Ph. D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2010.
- Hariswaran Sitaraman, “Magneto-hydrodynamics simulation study of high-density thermal plasmas in plasma acceleration devices”, D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2013.
- Douglas Breden, “Simulation of atmospheric pressure plasma discharges,” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2013.
- Prem Kumar Paneerchelvam, “Computational modeling of electromagnetic waves and their interactions with microplasmas,” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2017.
- Michael V. Pachuilo, “Study of non-equilibrium plasma streamer discharges in high pressure molecular gases,” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2018.
- Miles Gray, “The RailPac plasma arc,” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2018.
- Ashish Sharma, “Computational studies of streamers on surface and in bubbles suspended in liquids,” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2018.
- Vivek Subramaniam, “Multi-physics computational modeling of electromagnetic acceleration devices,” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2019.
- Yunho Kim, “Multi-physics modeling of electromagnetically driven surface plasma discharges,” Ph.D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2019.
- Dylan Pederson, “Modeling and simulation of electromagnetically-interacting low-temperature plasma discharges for actively controlled metamaterials,” Ph.D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Jan 2020.
- Evrim Solmaz, “Investigation of non-ideal effects in wave-heated dense microplasmas using particle-in-cell Monte Carlo collision modeling,” May 2022.