Mechanical Engineering
Nikolaos A. Gatsonis
Professor
Director, Aerospace Engineering Program
George I. Alden Professor
Associate Department Head
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Professional Page
Office: Higgins Laboratories, 244
Phone: +1-508-831-5576
Fax: +1-508-831-5680
gatsonis@wpi.edu
Educational Background
- B.S., Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, 1983
- M.S., University of Michigan, 1986
- M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
Research & Teaching Interests
Computational gas and plasma dynamics; spacecraft electric propulsion; spacecraft/environment interactions; Direct Simulation Monte Carlo/Particle-in-Cell Modeling of Pulsed Plasma Thruster (PPT) Plumes; Development of a 3-D Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Code using Unstructured Adaptive Grids; Hybrid (particle-fluid) Modeling of Plasma Microthrusters; Modeling Plume Flow/Flexible-Structure Dynamics in Microgravity; Magnetogasdynamic Modeling of Plasma Jets in Support of the AGRE and APEX International Plasma Jet Space Experiments; Modeling of Crystal Growth in Microgravity; Experimental Investigation of PPT Plumes; Design of Plasma Diagnostics for the Electric Thruster Environment Verification (ETEEV), a Hitchhiker-class Shuttle Experiment
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