Equipo de Propulsión Espacial y Plasmas

‼️ We are moving to LinkedIn! Please make sure to follow us to stay up to date with our work and open calls 👉 linkedin.com/company/ep2lab/ ℹ️ Visiting our website is another way to get to know what we are up to 👉 ep2.uc3m.es

🤩A warm #welcome to our new member Iñaki Fernandez Tena! @InakiPhy515 will work under the supervision of Jiewei Zhou towards his PhD on Hall Effect Thrusters and hybrid PIC-fluid simulations.

New collab w/ Miguel P. Encinar transferring our original PICASO CPU code to GPU. The result? 📈17.5 times faster ✅10.5 hours instead of 7.5 days 🔻CO₂ footprint decreased 10 times The simulation is part of an international benchmark of PIC codes, under the LANDMARK project.

‼️ Save the date‼️ Our team member Alberto Marín will defend his PhD thesis "Two-dimensional model of wall interaction in Hall effect thruster discharges" on the 26th of September. Good luck Alberto🍀 You are welcome to attend the defense on the Leganés @uc3m campus.

Great new work by Borja Bayón-Buján and @mmerinomartinez @uc3m_aero @PhDAeroUC3M @uc3m @ERC_Zarathustra -'#Datadriven sparse #modeling of oscillations in #plasma space #propulsion' - iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108… #machinelearning #plasmas #compphys #aerospace #engineering #AI #dynamics

New paper published!🎉We introduce a novel 1D non-neutral time-dependent model to study the anode plasma sheath in a HET & analyse the regimes that cause the normal sheath to collapse. ✒ D.Poli, P. Fajardo, E.Ahedo 👉t.ly/qCsNL 📌funded by @AgEInves & ERDF

🚨New paper exploring plasma properties of a low-power CHT far-plume, using electrostatic diagnostics. ✒T.Perrotin, A. Vinci, S.Mazzoufre, P.Fajardo, E.Ahedo, @jaumenc Funded by @AgEInves, collaboration @uc3m & @CNRS 💡Published in JAP by @AIP_Publishing t.ly/7s1Gb

🚀The #Ariane6 launch on July 9th inaugurated a new era of autonomous EU space transportation. @mmerinomartinez talked about its importance on Radio 5's @EuropaAbierta program. We are grateful to @rne for the permission to share the clip on our Linked page t.ly/7cArE

#CallForPapers!! the JEP special issue on "Alternative electric propulsion configurations" is up and ready to received your works. Justin Little (UW) and myself are guest editors. Learn more about the collection and how to contribute: bit.ly/4enhYad @springer1842

Our first-year PhD students participated at the @PhDAeroUC3M #DoctoralMeetings2024 poster session🚀 Stay tuned for the presentations of the rest of our PhDs on May 24th & 30th! You can come in person at the @uc3m Leganés campus or tune in by livestreaming t.ly/YntZd

❗New pre-print alert❗ We revisit the classical ECDI and analyse its non-linear evolution using an in-house 2D PIC model, comparing periodic and injection/absorbing axial conditions. 🖋️E. Bello, A. Marín, E. Ahedo 📍Funded by @AgEInves & @ERC_Research 👀arxiv.org/abs/2405.08761

Want to join us? Discover plasma space propulsion & contribute to the field!🚀We have 2 open PhD positions: one for a person with Scientific computing experience & another for an experimentalist. 🚨Apply by June 30th if you are interested or retweet! Info: t.ly/t2xOb

The Doctoral Meetings 2024 are just around the corner! The perfect opportunity to find out what our doctoral students are working on. We look forward to seeing you at: ⬇ Salón de Grados (Leganés) 📅 20th, 22nd, 24th & 30th of May 2024 ⏰ 10:00 - 15:00 🔗uc3m-phd-aerospace.es/2024/05/08/doc…

🚀Célian Boyé, member of the ZARATHUSTRA team, is currently on a research stay at the ICARE Laboratory of @CNRS. Find out more about his progress testing the 3rd prototype of the Magnetic Arch Thruster 👉 erc-zarathustra.uc3m.es/2024/04/16/tes… @PhDAeroUC3M @ep2lab

Congratulations Dr @peter96j ! 🚀Pedro successfully defended his PhD thesis "Analysis of the wave-plasma interaction in electrodeless plasma thrusters", supervised by @mmerinomartinez & E.Ahedo. #ElectricPropulsion #PhDone @uc3m @PhDAeroUC3M

We are honoured to attend the talk of Victor Désangles, our guest & researcher at ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab. His talk is being livestreamed 👉media.uc3m.es/live/event/621… #ECRT #ElectricPropulsion #PlasmaThrusters

Last week, our Eduardo Ahedo participated at the final dissemination and networking event of the project ASPIRE H2020 on a high-power Hall effect thruster. He summarized our team's achievements on an Alternative Qualification Strategy carried out in the framework of the project.

🚨Deadline extended until early May! 🚨 #JoinUs in analyzing instabilities and turbulence in plasma thrusters using machine learning tools. 👩‍💻 Send us you application as indicated👇 #AcademicPositions #PhDposition #ElectricPropulsion #MachineLearning

🚀 Join us for our #PhD #OpenDay on April 17th! Information Link: uc3m-phd-aerospace.es/2024/04/09/phd… 🔎Discover our Aerospace Engineering UC3M PhD program, meet faculty, explore predoctoral positions, and learn from alumni experiences. Don't miss this chance to shape your future with us!

🎉#JustPublished "Pulsed plasma thruster exhaust reconstruction" 🖋️S.Barquero,@jaumenc,@mmerinomartinez Intrducing an analysis technique w/ higher accuracy&insight than ToF analysis based on direct feature correlation. Funds: @ComunidadMadrid,@AgEInves 👀t.ly/tFycE