Kurt Polzin
EPPDyL, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA 08544

Educational History:

Rossford H.S. (Rossford, OH), 1994
The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 1999
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ), M.A. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2001
Currently a fourth year Ph.D. student at Princeton University

Current Research:

Update coming soon....

Publications:

Journal Publications

[1] ``Rotating flow past a short, sliced cylinder at finite Rossby number.'' K.A. Polzin, M. Angelats i Coll and M.R. Foster. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 95, pp. 67-103, 2001.

[2] (Electronic Access)``Plasma Propulsion Options for Multiple Terrestrial Planet Finder Architectures.'' K.A. Polzin, E.Y. Choueiri, P. Gurfil and N.J. Kasdin. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 347-356, May-June 2002.

[3] ``A Similarity Parameter for Capillary Flows.'' K.A. Polzin and E.Y. Choueiri. Manuscript in preparation.

[4] ``Ablative Z-pinch Pulsed Plasma Thruster.'' T.E. Markusic, K.A. Polzin, E.Y. Choueiri, M. Keidar, I.D. Boyd and N. Lepsetz. Manuscript in preparation.

Conference Publications

[5] (Electronic Access)``Ablative Z-pinch pulsed plasma thruster.'' T.E. Markusic, K.A. Polzin, J.Z. Levine, C.A. McLeavey and E.Y. Choueiri. In 36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Huntsville, AL, July 16-19, 2000. AIAA 2000-3257.

[6] (Electronic Access)``Plasma propulsion for three Terrestrial Planet Finer Architectures: Free-Flying, Monolithic and Tethered.'' K.A. Polzin, E.Y. Choueiri, P. Gurfil and N.J. Kasdin. In 37th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, July 8-11, 2001. AIAA 2001-3645.

[7] (Electronic Access)``Performance Study of the Ablative Z-pinch Pulsed Plasma Thruster.'' M. Keidar, I.D. Boyd, N. Lepsetz, T.E. Markusic, K.A. Polzin and E.Y. Choueiri. In 37th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, July 8-11, 2001. AIAA 2001-3898.

[8] (Electronic Access)``A Passive Propellant Feeding Mechanism for Micropropulsion using Capillarity.'' K.A. Polzin and E.Y. Choueiri. In 38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Indianapolis, IN, July 7-10, 2002. AIAA 2002-3949.

kpolzin@princeton.edu