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Laxminarayan L. Raja

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CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS:

  1. Juan Barbarena
  2. Navheen Murugesan
  3. Mammadbabhir Baghirzade
  4. Sai Vishnu Varadhan Korsipati
  5. Jason Stanley
  6. Anjana Kannan

POST-DOCS / VISITING RESEARCHERS:

  1. Dr. Rui You
  2. Dr. Malamas Tsagkaridis   (Oden Inst., part supervision)

 

M.S. SUPERVISION COMPLETED:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Stephen Yeldell, “Experimental studies of a novel microdischarge plasma thruster” MSE Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Aug. 2006.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Thirupathiraj Sudharshanraj “Computational Studies of Electron Transport and Reaction Rate Models for Argon Plasma,” MSE Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Aug. 2021.
  8. 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:

  1. Xiaohui Yuan, “One-dimensional simulation study of atmospheric-pressure glow discharges”, Ph.D Dissertation, Colorado School of Mines, Dec. 2005.
  2. Prashanth Kothnur, “Simulation of Direct Current Microdischarges for Microthruster Applications” Ph. D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2006.
  3. 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.
  4. Guangye Chen, “Particle modeling of the VASIMR propulsion helicon discharge,”D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Aug. 2008.
  5. Thomas Deconinck, “Simulation studies of direct-current microdischarges for electric propulsion,”D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2008.
  6. Daniel F. Berisford, “Thermal phenomena and power balance in a helicon plasma,” Ph. D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2009.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Douglas Breden, “Simulation of atmospheric pressure plasma discharges,” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2013.
  10. Prem Kumar Paneerchelvam, “Computational modeling of electromagnetic waves and their interactions with microplasmas,” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2017.
  11. 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.
  12. Miles Gray, “The RailPac plasma arc,” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2018.
  13. 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.
  14. Vivek Subramaniam, “Multi-physics computational modeling of electromagnetic acceleration devices,” Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, August 2019.
  15. Yunho Kim, “Multi-physics modeling of electromagnetically driven surface plasma discharges,” Ph.D Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 2019.
  16. 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.
  17. Evrim Solmaz, “Investigation of non-ideal effects in wave-heated dense microplasmas using particle-in-cell Monte Carlo collision modeling,” May 2022.
  18. Juyeon Lee, “Computational modeling study of microwave electrothermal thrusters,” May 2024