Plasma Physics Simulations

Extended a 2D electrostatic particle-in-cell code into a full 3D electromagnetic plasma simulation framework. 3 papers in Physics of Plasmas, 69 citations.

Period: 2010–2013
Where: Earlier Research
Role: Research Assistant (MS) · University of Alabama in Huntsville
Methods: FORTRAN/MPI, HPC, Numerical Methods

Simulated Ex field showing wave structure in a helicon plasma plume

Scope: Extended 2D electrostatic Particle-in-Cell plasma code into fully functional 3D electromagnetic simulation framework.

Achievements:

Developed Helmholtz coil field generation modules for plasma thruster digital twins
Implemented MPI/OpenMP parallelization for HPC scaling
Captured wave-particle interactions and plasma instabilities

Funding: NSF grant ATM0647157 Publications: 3 papers in Physics of Plasmas ()