Propelling Space Age with Ion Thrusters
The inquisitive mind of mankind permitted spaceflight to grow in the last century and exponentiate in recent years. Thanks to the technologies that drive this rapid deployment of spacecrafts. Statistics show that the year 2020 had seen a record breaking 114 launches...
Simulating Gas Dynamics inside Industrial Atomic Layer Deposition Batch Reactors
Moore’s Law, a traditional benchmark in the semiconductor industry, has led to miniaturization, speed and efficiency improvements in modern microelectronics. The primary approach to keep up with the trend is to shrink the size of various features within an integrated...
How to Mitigate Arcing Inside Relays of Electric Vehicles?
The future of transportation seems to be increasingly electric. In its latest report on electric vehicles (EV), the International Energy Agency (IEA) highlights a 40% increase in EV demand despite a 16% dip in the global car sales. Moving towards electrified vehicles...
How to Simulate Plasma Discharge in a Meter-scale ICP Reactor?
Humans took a big leap forward when we learned to control fire and use it for our daily needs. A similar leap happened when we learned to generate and handle plasmas, the fourth and most abundant state of matter found mostly in stars. Today, every consumer electronic...
Why Do Combustion Engines Always Tell Terrible Knock-Knock Jokes?
Automobiles have significantly improved the lives of humans - nothing is too far these days with a car. In our vehicle, we set off to drive for work, make a short spree to the local grocery store, cruise on a long road trip, get our packages delivered, and...