In the last decade, significant advances in nanotechnologies, rising from increasing
knowledge and refining of technical practices in green chemistry and bioengineering …

This article presents a model for the beams of charged droplets and ions typical of
electrospray thrusters. The model is applied to a typical highly conducting propellant …

A droplet charged above the Rayleigh limit is unstable. In the resulting dynamical process,
referred to as a Coulomb explosion, smaller droplets with higher charge-to-mass ratios are …

Abstract The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Plasma, Energy, & Space
Propulsion Laboratory (PESPL) presents the Discrete Electrospray Lagrangian Interaction …

A chemical-electrospray dual-mode propulsion system is significant in improving mission
capability and flexibility of a spacecraft. Hypergolic ionic liquids are potential propellants of …

The miniaturization of electronics over the past several decades have led to a recent boom
in small satellite missions and mission planning. Today, small satellites are used for a …

The influence of background pressure on electrospray plume evolution is observed by
simulating the emission and propagation of an electrospray particle population into an …

Measuring the polydisperse beam of charged species emitted by an electrospray device
requires accurate measurements of current. Secondary species emission (SSE) caused by …

Ion evaporation from a conductive meniscus has been of significant interest in the theoretical
investigation of electro-hydrodynamics and application exploration across various fields …

This article develops a leaky-dielectric model to study the axisymmetric breakup of an
electrified jet, using the phase field method to treat interfacial phenomena. The model is …