Kamesh Sankaran

Kamesh Sankaran Assistant Professor, Physics Department Whitworth College Spokane, WA 99251 kamesh@princeton.edu

Propulsion, plasma physics, numerical methods, vacuum technology.
More information on my thesis research is in my research page.

K. Sankaran, E. Y. Choueiri, and S. C. Jardin, Investigation of basic processes in a lithium Lorentz force accelerator through plasma flow simulation , Physics of Plasmas, accepted for publication 6/29/2005.

K. Sankaran, E. Y. Choueiri, and S. C. Jardin, Simulation of Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster Flowfields and Comparison to Experiments , Journal of Propulsion and Power (accepted for publication, April 2004).

K. Sankaran, L. Cassady, A. D. Kodys, and E. Y. Choueiri, A Survey of Propulsion Options for Cargo and Piloted Missions to Mars , in "Astrodynamics, Space Missions, and Chaos", v.1017, New York Annals of Science, 2004.

K. Sankaran, L. Martinelli, S. C. Jardin, and E. Y. Choueiri, A Flux-Limited Numerical Method for the MHD Equations to Simulate Propulsive Plasma Flows, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Enginnering, v.53:1415-1432, 2002.

K. Sankaran, E. Y. Choueiri, and S. C. Jardin, Comparison of Simulated Plasma Flowfields to Experimental Measurements for a Gas-Fed Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster , Proceedings of the 39^th Joint Propulsion Conference, Huntsville, AL, 2003.

K. Sankaran, L. Cassady, A. D. Kodys, and E. Y. Choueiri, A Survey of Propulsion Options for Cargo and Piloted Missions to Mars , Proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on New Trends in Astrodynamics, College Park, MD, 2003.

K. Sankaran, S. C. Jardin, and E. Y. Choueiri, Development and Validation of a Parallel MHD Code for the Simulation of Self-Field MPDT Flows , Proceedings of the 27^th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Pasadena, CA, 2001.

K. Sankaran, E. Y. Choueiri, and S. C. Jardin, Application of a New Numerical Solver to the Simulation of MPD Flows, Proceedings of the 36^th Joint Propulsion Conference, Huntsville, AL, 2000.

K. Sankaran, L. Martinelli, S. C. Jardin, and E. Y. Choueiri, A Flux-Limited Numerical Method for the MHD Equations to Simulate Propulsive Plasma Flows, Proceedings of the 31^st Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, Denver, CO, 2000.

K. Sankaran and E. Y. Choueiri, An Accurate Characteristics-Splitting Scheme for Numerical Solution of MHD Equations, Proceedings of the 26^th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Litakyushu, Japan, 1999.