Aerospace Plasma Group at the Gaseous Electronics Conference

Members of the Aerospace Plasma Group (APG) attended the Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC), organized by the American Physical Society’s Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (DAMOP), in San Diego, California. The conference focuses on the fundamental science behind partially ionized, collisional plasmas and their interactions with atoms, molecules, and charged particles. It highlights research on plasma sources, diagnostics, simulations, chemistry, and atomic/molecular processes.

APG’s research presentations included:

• Prof. Carmen Guerra-Garcia gave an invited talk on “Imaging studies of discharges in flowing gasses: from microdischarges to lightning arcs”
• Lanie McKinney (PhD Candidate) gave a presentation titled “NRP-DBD CO2 Conversion Reactor Performance for In-situ Resource Utilization: An Experimental Study”
• Raphaël Dijoud (PhD Candidate) presented a poster titled “A numerical toolbox for solving 0D and 1D non-equilibrium plasma chemistry”
• Lee Strobel (PhD Candidate) presented a poster titled “Multi-pulse modeling of self-pulsating DC streamer discharges”