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Nicholas Manavi received his Master’s degree and got a job at Los Alamos National Laboratory!!

Best wishes in future endeavors and discoveries!!!

 

Congratulations to Sagar Pokharel with the paper published in Energies!

Sagar Pokharel, Albina Tropina and Mikhail N. Shneider, “Numerical simulation of laser heating and evaporation of a single droplet”. Energies, 16(1),388 (2022); [https://doi.org/10.3390/en16010388]

The work was partially supported by the Princeton Collaborative Research Facility (PCRF), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No.DE-AC02-09CH11466. Authors also acknowledge support from the U.S. DOE Office of Science Award No. DE-SC0022063.

Excellent presentations  of Sagar Pokharel and Nicholas Manavi on the SciTech 2023 in National Harbor, MD.

Sagar Pokharel ” Beam Shaping for the Laser Energy Deposition in Air“.

Nicholas Manavi

“Nonequilibrium effects in high-speed flow: experiment and simulation”

 

 

Rupali Sahu has got her PhD degree! Congratulations and good luck in all her future endeavors!!!

Nickolas Manavi presented  his work  on the refractive index measurements and calculations in hypersonic flows. It was  his first and very- very good  presentation on the AIAA conference.

SciTech 2022 in San-Diego!

Great job of my graduate students Rupali Sahu and Sagar Pokharel !!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to Daniel Hartman with successful MS theses defense and graduation!!

Theses topic “Numerical Analysis and Prediction of Aero-optical Effects”

Shell models of turbulence were used to study the effect of isotropic turbulence on the refractive index spectrum for the case of a plane wave beam propagation through turbulent flow. The calculated shell-averaged temperature spectrum was used to determine the refractive index power spectral density and to create 2D phase-screens for modeling the laser beam propagation in the formed turbulent flow.

     Irradiance data visual comparison to DNS and experimental measurements.