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...
by odriva | 2023-11-22 | news
On November 21, 2023 the Royal Academy of Engineering (Real Academia de Ingeniería) issued the Young Researcher Medal to Mario Merino, PI of the ZARATHUSTRA Project. The medal recognizes his outstanding contributions to the design, modeling, simulation, and testing of...
by odriva | 2023-10-26 | news
We are happy to announce the publication of “Analysis of a cusped helicon plasma thruster discharge” that just got published at Plasma Sources Science and Technology. Among the co-authors figure two members of the Zarathustra team: Pedro Jiménez and Mario...