On October 3, the 75th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference was held in Sendai, Japan. Our PI, Mario Merino, was one of the invited speakers with the presentation “Electrodeless plasma thrusters and magnetized plasma expansions for space propulsion“, where he had the opportunity to talk about the progress of the ZARATHUSTRA project.
Our new seminal publication "An implicit, conservative electrostatic particle-in-cell algorithm for paraxial magnetic nozzles" has just been published in the Journal of Computational Physics. Co-authored by Pedro Jiménez, Luis Chacon, and Mario Merino , this...
During the week of January 22-28, 2024, the ZARATHUSTRA team hosted Dr. Luis Chacón, Senior Scientist, at the Theoretical Division of Los Álamos National Laboratory (LANL). This visit deepens and extends the ongoing collaboration with Luis on time-implicit,...
Davide Maddaloni performed a research internship at ONERA Palaiseau in October-December 2023, under the supervision of Victor Desangles and Federico Boni. He used an array of fast plasma probes to characterize the oscillations in the magnetic nozzle of ONERA's...