News
PEPL Volunteers at Xplore Workshop
The PEPL lab volunteered to help teach 4th-7th graders about entry, decent and landing on Mars at the Xplore workshop. The students simulated a mars landing via an egg drop competition with points for landing location and capsule size. We are already looking forward...
JOSS Paper
We have a new paper out in the Journal of Open Source Software on our open-source fluid Hall thruster code. Check it...
Pre-defense
Please join us in congratulating Will Hurley for passing his pre-defense!
LVTF renamed in honor of Dean Gallimore
Dean Alec Gallimore, founder of the Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory, will be leaving the University of Michigan to serve as the provost and chief academic officer of Duke University. In honor of his incredible achievements and lasting impact at PEPL,...
Candidacy
Please join us in congratulating Declan Brick and Grace Zoppi for passing their preliminary exams and advancing to candidacy!
Plasma Sources Science and Technology Paper
Check out our new article on modeling anomalous transport in Hall thrusters in PSST!
NSTGRO Fellowship
Congrats to William Hurley for receiving the Nasa Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity (NSTGRO) fellowship!
Physical Review Letters Paper
PhD candidate Zachariah Brown and Lab co-director Dr. Benjamin Jorns' article "Growth and Saturation of the Electron Drift Instability in a Crossed Field Plasma" was recently published in Physical Review Letters. Check out the article here:...
News article
Check out this news article written by lab P.I. Benjamin Jorns in Aviation week.
2023 AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition
We had a number of papers at the 2023 AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition: Leanne L. Su, Tate M. Gill, Parker J. Roberts, William J. Hurley, Thomas A. Marks, Christopher L. Sercel, Madison G. Allen, Collin B. Whittacker, Mathew P. Byrne, Zachariah B. Brown, Eric Viges,...