sample of publications

• articles 

  • An implicit, conservative electrostatic particle-in-cell algorithm for paraxial magnetic nozzles.  JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS.  502:1-22. 2024
  • Analysis of a cusped helicon plasma thruster discharge.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  32:1-19. 2023
  • Performance characterization of the µ10 electron-cyclotron-resonance ion thruster using alternative propellants: krypton vs. xenon.  ACTA ASTRONAUTICA.  211:750-754. 2023
  • Kinetic electron cooling in magnetic nozzles: experiments and modeling.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  32:1-27. 2023
  • Plasma acceleration in a magnetic arch.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  32:1-12. 2023
  • Plume characterization of a waveguide ECR thruster.  JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS.  133:113304-1-113304-14. 2023
  • Comparison of a hybrid model and experimental measurements for a dielectric-coated coaxial ECR thruster.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  32:1-13. 2023
  • Investigation of radial heat conduction with 1D self-consistent model in helicon plasmas.  Plasma Science and Technology.  25:1-15. 2023
  • Plasma-wave interaction in helicon plasmas near the lower hybrid frequency.  Chinese Physics B.  2022:1-7. 2022
  • Data-driven analysis of oscillations in Hall thruster simulations.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  31:1-19. 2022
  • Wave propagation and absorption in a Helicon plasma thruster and its plume.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  31:1-14. 2022
  • Wave propagation and absorption in a helicon plasma thruster and its plume.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  31. 2022
  • Fluid-kinetic model of a propulsive magnetic nozzle.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  30:1-17. 2021
  • Formation and neutralization of electric charge and current of an ion thruster plume.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  30:105023. 2021
  • Three-dimensional neutralizer effects on a Hall-effect thruster near plume.  ACTA ASTRONAUTICA.  187:498-510. 2021
  • On heavy particle-wall interaction in axisymmetric plasma discharges.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  30:085004. 2021
  • Coupled plasma transport and electromagnetic wave simulation of an ECR thruster.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  30:1-17. 2021
  • Corrigendum: Macroscopic and parametric study of a kinetic plasma expansion in a paraxial magnetic nozzle (2020 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol.29 045017).  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  30:1-1. 2021
  • Perspectives on Physics of E×B Discharges Relevant to Plasma Propulsion and Similar Technologies.  PHYSICS OF PLASMAS.  27:120601-1-120601-45. 2020
  • Three-dimensional geomagnetic field effects on a plasma thruster plume expansion.  ACTA ASTRONAUTICA.  175:190-203. 2020
  • Commentary: On helicon thrusters: Will they ever fly?.  Frontiers in Physics.  8:1-3. 2020
  • Macroscopic and parametric study of a kinetic plasma expansion in a paraxial magnetic nozzle.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  29:1-17. 2020
  • Collisionless electron cooling in a plasma thruster plume: experimental validation of a kinetic model.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  29:1-10. 2020
  • Characterization of diamagnetism inside an ECR thruster with a diamagnetic loop.  PHYSICS OF PLASMAS.  26:1-11. 2019
  • On the electron boundary conditions in PIC plasma thruster plume simulations.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  28:1-12. 2019
  • Two-dimensional plasma-wave interaction in an helicon plasma thruster with magnetic nozzle.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  27. 2018
  • Axisymmetric plasma plume characterization with 2D and 3D particle codes.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  27:1-13. 2018
  • Three dimensional fluid-kinetic model of a magnetically guided plasma jet.  PHYSICS OF PLASMAS.  25. 2018
  • Spacecraft-plasma-debris interaction in an ion beam shepherd mission.  ACTA ASTRONAUTICA.  146:216-227. 2018
  • Kinetic electron model for plasma thruster plumes.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  27:035013-1-035013-18. 2018
  • Non-Maxwellian Electron Energy Probability Functions in the plume of a SPT-100 Hall thruster.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  27:015006_1-015006_7. 2017
  • Hybrid 3D model for the interaction of plasma thruster plumes with nearby objects.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  26:1-19. 2017
  • Contactless steering of a plasma jet with a 3D magnetic nozzle.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  26:1-10. 2017
  • Electric propulsion subsystem optimization for "Ion Beam Shepherd" missions.  JOURNAL OF PROPULSION AND POWER.  33:370-378. 2017
  • Effect of the plasma-induced magnetic field on a magnetic nozzle.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  25:1-9. 2016
  • Determination of the force transmitted by an ion thruster plasma plume to an orbital object.  ACTA ASTRONAUTICA.  119:241-251. 2016
  • Fully magnetized plasma flow in a magnetic nozzle.  PHYSICS OF PLASMAS.  23. 2016
  • A collisionless plasma thruster plume expansion model.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  24. 2015
  • Influence of electron and ion thermodynamics on the magnetic nozzle plasma expansion.  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE.  43:244-251. 2015
  • Plasma detachment in a propulsive magnetic nozzle via ion demagnetization.  PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.  23:1-5. 2014

• book chapters 

  • Magnetic nozzles for space plasma thrusters. In: Encyclopedia of plasma technology.  CRC Press & IEEE. 1329-1351. 2016

• conference contributions 

  • Experiments and Simulations of a Magnetic Arch Plasma Expansion for Space Propulsion 2023
  • Implicit Conservative Particle-in-Cell simulations of Magnetic Nozzles 2023
  • 37th International Electric Propulsion Conference Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  1-11. 2022
  • Analysis and optimization of a network of orbital stations formomentum exchange transfers.  1-9. 2022
  • Direct Thrust Measurements of a circular waveguide Electron Cyclotron Resonance Thruster.  1-16. 2022
  • Experimental plume characterization of a low-power Ablative Pulsed Plasma Thruster (APPT).  1-18. 2022
  • Numerical Simulations of the Discharge and the Plasma wave Interaction in a Helicon Plasma Thruster.  1-17. 2022
  • Preliminary model of the plasma expansion in a magnetic arch thruster (and overview of the first prototype).  1-15. 2022
  • Transformación "flipped-classroom" de la asignatura Vehículos Espaciales y Dinámica orbital 2022
  • Wave propagation and absorption in a Helicon plasma thruster source, plume and surroundings 2022
  • A numerical parametric investigation on the optimal design and operation of coaxial ECR thrusters 2021
  • Data-driven analysis of breathing mode and ion-transit mode in 2D hybrid Hall thruster simulations.  3398-3403. 2021
  • Design of an experimental ablative pulsed plasma thruster for micropropulsion.  1-8. 2021
  • Hybrid PIC-fluid simulation of a waveguide ECR magnetic nozzle plasma thruster 2021
  • Preliminary investigation of the electromagnetic fields in the far plumeof a Helicon Plasma Thruster.  1-9. 2021
  • Diseño preliminar de la misión espacial TEPEU-1 2020
  • Effect of the initial VDFs in magnetic nozzle expansions 2019
  • Fluid-kinetic propulsive magnetic nozzle model in the fully magnetized limit 2019
  • Helicon and ECR plasma sources for space propulsion: Simulation and testing.  788-793. 2019
  • Magnetic Nozzle Electron Cyclotron Resonance Thruster.  1-15. 2019
  • Modeling and simulation tools for ion thrusters.  1-30. 2019
  • Numerical Simulations of the Plasma Discharge in an Helicon Plasma Thruster.  1-16. 2019
  • PIC/fluid/wave Simulation of the Plasma Discharge in an ECR Plasma Thruster.  1-21. 2019
  • Simulation of Hall thruster 3D plumes with EP2PLUS.  1-29. 2019
  • Studying the formation and neutralization of an ion thruster plume with EP2PLUS.  1-16. 2019
  • Synergies between space plasma propulsion and magnetic confinement plasma fusion: PROMETEO project.  497-497. 2019
  • Advances in wave-plasma modelling in ECR thrusters 2018
  • Electron modeling in hybrid plasma thruster plume simulations 2018
  • HYPHEN: A multi-thruster simulation platform.  1-15. 2018
  • Magnetic nozzles.  1-17. 2018
  • Micro-Propulsion Plasma Plume Measurement and Simulation 2018
  • 2D and 3D hybrid PIC-fluid modeling of electricthruster plumes 2017
  • Direct-Vlasov Study of Electron Cooling Mechanisms in Paraxial, Unmagnetized Plasma Thruster Plumes 2017
  • EP2Plus: a hybrid plasma plume/spacecraft interaction code 2017
  • Experimental determination of the plasma properties in the far-plume of an SPT100 Hall thruster 2017
  • Experimental performances of a 1 kW HPT by means of plasma diagnosis 2017
  • Full-PIC Code Validation and Comparison against Fluid Models on Plasma Plume Expansion 2017
  • HEMPT thruster discharge and plume simulation with a 2D3v-PIC-MCC and a 3D hybrid fluid-PIC code.  1-10. 2017
  • Model and Experimental validation of spacecraft-thruster interactions for electric propulsion thrusters plumes 2017
  • Propagation and Absorption in ECR Plasma Thrusters 2017
  • The "MINOTOR" H2020 project for ECR thruster development.  1-13. 2017
  • The Conquest of Space: un curso MOOC y SPOC en ingeniería aeroespacial.  91-97. 2017
  • Wave propagation and absorption in ECR plasma thrusters 2017
  • A 3D Hybrid Code to Study Electric Thruster Plumes 2016
  • Development and Validation of a 2D Wave-Plasma Code for Helicon Plasma Thrusters 2016
  • Development of physical models of electron cooling in collisionless plasma thruster plumes 2016
  • Hybrid Particle Codes for Electric Propulsion 2016
  • Ion Beam Shepherd Mission LEOSWEEP: mission design to ion beam thruster testing 2016
  • Maiden tests of the HPT05 helicon plasma thruster Prototype 2016
  • Physics of magnetic nozzles for plasma thrusters 2016
  • Studying the Plume Neutralization Process of the PEGASES thruster 2016
  • Design and development of a 1kW-class helicon antenna thruster 2015
  • Electric Propulsion Subsystem Optimization for IBS Missions 2015
  • Fluid VS PIC Modeling of a Plasma Plume Expansion 2015
  • Impulse Transfer Thruster for an Ion Beam Shepherd Mission 2015
  • Influence of electron and ion thermodynamics on the magnetic nozzle plasma expansion.  244-251. 2015
  • Toward Thrust vector control with a 3D steerable magnetic nozzle 2015
  • Assessment of helicon plasma thruster technology for space missions 2014
  • Design of Helicon Plasma Thruster Subsystems.  3584-3596. 2014
  • Modeling and Simulation of EP Plasma Plume Expansion into Vacuum.  5008-5024. 2014
  • Plasma Thruster Beam Expansion and Impingement in Space Debris 2014
  • Helicon plasma thrusters: prototypes and advances on modeling 2013