by odriva | 2024-03-14 | news
On March 2nd, 2024, Mario Merino, PI of the ZARATHUSTRA project, was appointed as Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) of Aerospace Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. This accomplishment highlights the significance of ERC Starting grants in...
by odriva | 2024-03-08 | news
Our new research paper “Thrust measurements of a waveguide electron cyclotron resonance thruster” just got published in the Journal of Applied Physics. We are especially happy that it was also selected by the editor as “Editor’s Pick”!...
by odriva | 2024-02-12 | news
A new article, “Non-Maxwellian electron effects on the macroscopic response of a Hall thruster discharge from an axial–radial kinetic model”, published on Plasma Sources Science and Technology is co-authored by Enrique Bello Benitez, member of the...
by odriva | 2024-02-06 | news
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 ,...
by odriva | 2024-01-28 | news
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,...
by odriva | 2023-12-27 | news
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...
