Publications
] Thermofluidics of Sulfur-based Thermal Energy Storage. Vol. Doctor of Philosophy. Los Angeles: University of California, 2019.
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(12.23 MB) Ion Energy and Wave Propagation in a Hollow Cathode Plume In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Vol. Doctor of Philosophy. Los Angeles: University of California, 2018. (6.61 MB)
(6.61 MB) Aerodynamics and optimal design of biplane wind turbine blades In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Vol. Doctor of Philosophy. Los Angeles: University of California, 2017. (17.33 MB)
(17.33 MB) Plasma Inter-Particle and Particle-Wall Interactions In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering . Vol. Doctor of Philosophy. Los Angeles: University of California, 2017. (29.03 MB)
(29.03 MB) Overcoming the Scaling Limitations of Ring-Cusp DC Ion Thruster Discharges In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Vol. Doctor of Philosophy. Los Angeles: University of California, 2017. (22.8 MB)
(22.8 MB) Thermodynamic and Cost Modeling of Thermal Energy Storage Systems Using Novel Storage Media In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Vol. Doctor of Philosophy. Los Angeles: University of California, 2016. (5.1 MB)
(5.1 MB) Complex Heat Exchangers for Improved Performance In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Vol. Doctor of Philosophy. Los Angeles: University of California, 2016. (4.03 MB)
(4.03 MB) Low-Power Magnetically Shielded Hall Thrusters In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Vol. Doctor of Philosophy. Los Angeles: University of California, 2015. (3.21 MB)
(3.21 MB) Multi-Scale Multi-Species Modeling for Plasma Devices In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Vol. Doctor of Philosophy. Los Angeles: University of California, 2014. (7.61 MB)
(7.61 MB) Aero-Structural Design Investigations for Biplane Wind Turbine Blades In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Vol. Doctor of Philosophy. Los Angeles: University of California, 2014. (13.71 MB)
(13.71 MB) Plasma Structure and Behavior of Miniature Ring-Cusp Discharges In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Vol. Doctor of Philosophy. Los Angeles: University of California, 2013. (13.93 MB)
(13.93 MB) Electron Emission from Nano and Microstructured Materials for Fusion and Plasma Discharge Applications., 2016. (2.15 MB)
(2.15 MB) Characterization of Ion-Atom Collisions and Electron Emission in Electric Propulsion Plasma Conditions., 2015. (2.28 MB)
(2.28 MB) Magnetically Shielded Miniature (MaSMi) Hall Thruster In 2014 UCLA Technology Forum., 2014. (1.99 MB)
(1.99 MB) Experimental Study of Fundamental Electric Propulsion Plasma Physics Using a Well-Characterized Plasma Experiment., 2014. (1.5 MB)
(1.5 MB) Advanced biplane blade design for large-scale wind turbines., 2014. (3.8 MB)
(3.8 MB) Biplane wind turbine blades: aero-structural design studies., 2014. (5.67 MB)
(5.67 MB) Building Engineers and Mentors: Planning for the Future., 2013. (1.82 MB)
(1.82 MB) Building Engineers and Mentors: Bringing science and engineering to Los Angeles schools., 2013. (1.46 MB)
(1.46 MB) Preliminary results of long-duration and pulsed plasma material exposure experiments at the UCLA Plasma Interactions facility.., 2013. (1.36 MB)
(1.36 MB) Structural design of spars for 100-m biplane wind turbine blades., 2012. (2.05 MB)
(2.05 MB) Simplified Plasma Experiment for Investigation of Plasma Diffusion & Transport Mechanisms., 2012. (919.76 KB)
(919.76 KB) Aero-structural Investigation of Biplane Wind Turbine Blades., 2012. (1.81 MB)
(1.81 MB) "Measurements of ion velocity and wave propagation in a hollow cathode plume." Plasma Sources Science and Technology 28, no. 6 (2019). (2.06 MB)
(2.06 MB) "Low-Cost Thermal Energy Storage for Dispatchable CSP." Energy Research and Development Division, California Energy Commission, FINAL PROJECT REPORT (2019). (10.06 MB)
(10.06 MB) "Electron emission from carbon velvet due to incident xenon ions." Appl. Phys. Lett. 13, no. 041603 (2018). (757.04 KB)
(757.04 KB) "Ion Heating Measurements on the Centerline of a High-Current Hollow Cathode Plume." Journal of Propulsion and Power (2018). (1.17 MB)
(1.17 MB) "Heat transfer behavior of elemental sulfur for low temperature thermalenergy storage applications." International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 127, Park B, no. December 2018 (2018). (5.03 MB)
(5.03 MB) "Demonstration of a low cost, high temperature elemental sulfur thermal battery." Applied Thermal Engineering 137 (2018): 259-267. (2.89 MB)
(2.89 MB) "Sulfur-based thermal energy storage system using intermodalcontainment: Design and performance analysis." Applied Thermal Engineering 128 (2018). (3.1 MB)
(3.1 MB) "Axial Ring-Cusp Hybrid (ARCH) plasma discharge: an approach to highly efficient miniature-scale ion sources." Plasma Sources Science and Technology 27, no. 12 (2018). (1.37 MB)
(1.37 MB) "Angular, temperature, and impurity effects on secondary electron emission from Ni(110)." Journal of Applied Physics 24, no. 093301 (2018). (1.62 MB)
(1.62 MB) "Secondary electron emission from textured surfaces." Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 51, no. 14 (2018). (2.19 MB)
(2.19 MB) "Charge and discharge behavior of elemental sulfur in isochoric high temperature thermal energy storage systems." Applied Energy 214 (2018): 166-177. (2.15 MB)
(2.15 MB) "Characterization of xenon ion and neutral interactions in a well-characterized experiment." Physics of Plasmas 25, no. 6 (2018). (1.96 MB)
(1.96 MB) "A Dimensionless Model for Transient Turbulent Natural Convection in Isochoric Vertical Thermal Energy Storage Tubes." Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications 10, no. 3 (2018). (1.07 MB)
(1.07 MB) "Experimental measurements of surface damage and residual stresses in micro-engineered plasma facing materials." Journal of Nuclear Materials 486 (2017): 111-121. (3.2 MB)
(3.2 MB) "Performance Analysis of a Low-Power Magnetically Shielded Hall Thruster: Experiments." Journal of Propulsion and Power 33, no. 4 (2017). (1.03 MB)
(1.03 MB) "Propagation of ion acoustic wave energy in the plume of a high-current LaB6 hollow cathode." Physical Review E 96 (2017). (1.07 MB)
(1.07 MB) "Miniature ion thruster ring-cusp discharge performance and behavior." Journal of Applied Physics 122, no. 24 (2017). (12.53 MB)
(12.53 MB) "Fluence-dependent sputtering yield of micro-architectured materials." Applied Surface Science 407 (2017): 223-235. (5.57 MB)
(5.57 MB) "In situ plasma sputtering and angular distribution measurements for structured molybdenum surfaces." Plasma Sources Science and Technology 26, no. 6 (2017). (1.36 MB)
(1.36 MB) "Secondary Electron Emission from Plasma-Generated Nanostructured Tungsten Fuzz." Applied Physics Letters 109, no. 201602 (2016). (1.02 MB)
(1.02 MB) "View factor modeling of sputter-deposition on micron-scale-architectured surfaces exposed to plasma." Journal of Applied Physics 119, no. 11 (2016).
"Development and Initial Testing of a Magnetically Shielded Miniature Hall Thruster." IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science Special Issue on Plasma Propulsion PP, no. 99 (2015). (2.2 MB)
(2.2 MB) "Optimal Operation Strategies For Thermal Energy Storage Systems In Solar Thermal Power Plants." Solar Energy Engineering ES2015-49053 (2015): V002T18A001. (1.08 MB)
(1.08 MB) "Analysis of Secondary Electron Emission for Conducting Materials Using LEED Optics." Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 48, no. 195204 (2015). (1.48 MB)
(1.48 MB) "Exergetic Optimization and Performance Evaluation of Multi-Phase Thermal Energy Storage Systems." Solar Energy (2015).
"Study of Turbulent Natural Convection in Vertical Storage Tubes for Supercritical Thermal Energy Storage." Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications 67, no. 2 (2014): 119-139.
"Plasma Structure of Miniature Ring-Cusp Ion Thruster Discharges." Journal of Propulsion and Power 30 (2014): 628-636.
"Magnetic field structure influence on primary electron cusp losses for micro-scale discharges." Physics of Plasmas 21, no. 4 (2014). (2.64 MB)
(2.64 MB) "An Algorithm to Determine the Optimized Data Range in Transient Hotwire Thermal Property Measurement." Review of Scientific Instruments (2014).
"Aero-structural investigation of biplane wind turbine blades." Wind Energy 17, no. 3 (2014): 397-411. (1.56 MB)
(1.56 MB) "Algorithm to optimize transient hot-wire thermal property measurement." Review of Scientific Instruments 85 (2014). (1.05 MB)
(1.05 MB) "Spatial and Temporal Modeling of Sub- and Supercritical Thermal Energy Storage." Solar Energy 103 (2014): 402-410.
"Structural design of spars for 100-m biplane wind turbine blades." Renewable Energy 71, no. November (2014): 133-155. (3.69 MB)
(3.69 MB) "A dc plasma source for plasma–material interaction experiments." Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2014). (2.01 MB)
(2.01 MB) "Particle Weighting Algorithm for PIC Simulations in a Non-Uniform 2D Axisymmetric Mesh." Journal of Computational Science (2014).
"Effect of Laminar and Turbulent Buoyancy-Driven Flows on Thermal Energy Storage using Supercritical Fluids." Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications 64 (2013): 955-973.
"Ion–Neutral Collision Modeling Using Classical Scattering With Spin-Orbit Free Interaction Potential." IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 41 (2013): 470-480.
"Mission Capability Assessment of CubeSats Using a Miniature Ion Thruster." AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 50, no. 5 (2013): 1035-1046. (5.49 MB)
(5.49 MB) "Reduction of Energetic Ion Production in Hollow Cathodes by External Gas Injection." Journal of Propulsion and Power (2013): 1-9.
"Fuel optimum low-thrust elliptic transfer using numerical averaging." Acta Astronautica 86 (2013): 95-118.
"Magnetic stream function characterization of cusp confined plasma discharges." Physics of Plasmas (2012).
"Quasi-equilibrium electron density along a magnetic field line." Applied Physics Letters 101 (2012): 224106.
"Time-Dependent Erosion of Ion Optics." Journal of Propulsion and Power 27, no. 1 (2011).
"Ground Effects for Widely Spaced, Supersonic, Vertical Retrorockets." Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 46 (2009): 599-605.
"Hollow Cathode and Low-Thrust Extraction Grid Analysis for a Miniature Ion Thruster." International Journal of Plasma Science and Engineering 2008 (2008): 1-11.
"Effects of magnetic field topography on ion thruster discharge performance." Plasma Sources Science and Technology 17 (2008): 035010.
"Decel Grid Effects on Ion Thruster Grid Erosion." IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 36 (2008): 2122-2129.
"Effects of Internally Mounted Cathodes on Hall Thruster Plume Properties." IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 36 (2008): 2004-2014.
"Analytical Ion Thruster Discharge Performance Model." Journal of Propulsion and Power 23, no. 5 (2007): 1055-1067.
Assessment of Natural Convection Heat Transfer in an Isochoric Thermal Energy Storage System In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015.
Coupled Analysis of Ion Thruster Grid Erosion and Electron Backstreaming In Space Propulsion Conference. San Sebastian, Spain, 2010. (881.98 KB)
(881.98 KB) "Numerical Simulation of Electrospray Thruster Extraction." In 36th International Electric Propulsion Conference. Vienna, Austria. Vienna, Austria, 2019. (4.81 MB)
(4.81 MB) "A Novel Variable Mode Emitter for Electrospray Thrusters." In 36th International Electric Propulsion Conference. Vienna, Austria, 2019. (4.72 MB)
(4.72 MB) "Interaction of Droplets in Electrospray Plumes." In 36th International Electric Propulsion Conference. Vienna, Austria, 2019. (1.01 MB)
(1.01 MB) "DC-Ion Model Validation and Convergence Studies." In 2018 Joint Propulsion Conference, AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum. Cincinnati, OH, 2018. (21.57 MB)
(21.57 MB) "Performance Testing and Development of the MiXI Thruster with the ARCH Discharge." In 2018 Joint Propulsion Conference, AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum. Cincinnati, OH, 2018. (1.85 MB)
(1.85 MB) "Computational Modeling of an Axial Ring Cusp Hybrid Discharge for the MiXI Thruster." In 2018 Joint Propulsion Conference, AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum. Cincinnati, OH, 2018. (1.75 MB)
(1.75 MB) "Lifetime Considerations and Estimation for Electrospray Thrusters." In 2018 Joint Propulsion Conference, AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum. Cincinnati, OH, 2018. (1.31 MB)
(1.31 MB) "Life-Limiting Emission Modes for Electrospray Thrusters." In 2018 Joint Propulsion Conference, AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum. Cincinnati, OH, 2018. (1.93 MB)
(1.93 MB) "Ion Acoustic Wave Propagation and Heating in a High-Current Hollow Cathode Plume." In 35th International Electric Propulsion Conference. Atlanta, GA, 2017. (12.32 MB)
(12.32 MB) "Design and Performance of the Axial Ring-Cusp Hybrid (ARCH) Discharge for Miniature Ion Thrusters." In 35th International Electric Propulsion Conference. Atlanta, GA, 2017. (2.43 MB)
(2.43 MB) "Surface Geometry Effects on Secondary Electron Emission Via Monte Carlo Modeling." In 52nd AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Propulsion and Energy Forum. Salt Lake City, UT, 2016. (11.61 MB)
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