Chen Cui

Chen Cui

Ph.D. candidate at USC, Advised by Prof. Joseph Wang. Focus on numerical modeling of plasma flows.

Publications

You can also find my up-to-date publication lists in my Google Scholar or my ResearchGate or my ORCiD.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Y. Zhao, C. Cui, and Y. Hu, “Rigorously Conservative Charge and Current Deposition in 3D Cylindrical PIC”, Computational Particle Mechanics, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 393, 2022. Link
  2. C. Cui, S. P. Gary, and J. Wang, “Whistler Turbulence vs. Whistler Anisotropy Instability: Particle-in-cell Simulation and Statistical Analysis”, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, vol. 9, no. 8, p. 941241, 2022. (Invited, in memorial of Dr. S. Peter Gary). Link
  3. J. Asher, Z. Huang, C. Cui, and J. Wang, “Multi-scale Modeling of Ionic Electrospray Emission”, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 131,no. 1, p. 014902, 2022. Link
  4. C. Cui and J. Wang, “Grid-based Vlasov Simulation of Collisionless Plasma Expansion”, Physics of Plasmas, vol. 28, no. 9, p. 093510, 2021. Link
  5. Y. Zhao, C. Cui, Y. Zhang, and Y. Hu “Implementation of Neutralizing Fields for Particle–particle Simulations Using Like Charges”,Journal of Plasma Physics, vol. 87, no. 3, 2021. Link

Peer-reviewed Journal Manuscripts Submitted/In Preparation

  1. Currently two papers related to grid-based Vlasov method and its applications in space engineering are in preparation.

Conference Papers/Abstracts

  1. C. Cui and J. Wang, “Two-dimensional Grid-based Vlasov Simulations of Electric Propulsion Plume”, in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, vol. 2022, p. CO08.00004, APS, 2022. Link
  2. C. Cui and J. Wang, “Two-dimensional Vlasov Simulations of Electric Propulsion Plume”, in The 37th International Electric Propulsion Conference, pp. IEPC–2022–242, Electric Rocket Propulsion Society, 2022. Link
  3. C. Cui and J. Wang, “A Multi-dimensional Parallel Grid-based Vlasov Solver for Kinetic Plasma Simulations”, in AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, p. 1618, 2022. Link
  4. C. Cui and J. Wang, “Development of a Parallel Multi-dimensional Grid-based Vlasov Equation Solver”, in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, vol. 2021, p. PP11.00016, APS, 2021. Link
  5. C. Cui and J. Wang, “Development of a Parallel Multi-dimensional Grid-based Vlasov Solver for Plasma Plume Simulation”, in AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2021 Forum, p. 3413, 2021. Link
  6. S. P. Gary, C. Cui and J. Wang, “Particle-in-cell Simulations of Kinetic Range Plasma Turbulence: Does Microinstability Growth Lead to Intermittency?”, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, vol. 2020, pp. SH016–0002, 2020. Link
  7. C. Cui and J. Wang, “Simulations of Pure Ionic Electrospray Thruster Plume Neutralization”, in AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2020 Forum, p. 3613, 2020. Link
  8. C. Cui, Z. Huang, Y. Hu, J. Wang “Grid-Based Kinetic Simulations of Collisionless Plasma Expansion”, in The 36th International Electric Propulsion Conference, pp. IEPC–2019–862, 2019. Link
  9. C. Cui, Y. Hu, J. Wang “Direct Grid-Based Vlasov Simulation of Collisionless Plasma Expansion of Ion Thruster Plume”, AIAA Paper 2019-3992, AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum and Exposition 2019, Indianapolis, IN, Aug 2019 Link

Symposiums Talks and Posters

  1. C. Cui, J. Wang “Modeling Spacecraft Charging Around Irregularly Shaped Small Asteroids”, in LunGradCon 2019, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, Jul. 2019. (Talk) PDF
  2. C. Cui, J. Wang “Numerical Simulations of Plasma-Spacecraft Interactions Near Irregularly Shaped Small Asteroids”, Applied Space Environments Conference 2019 (ASEC 2019), Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City, CA, May 2019. (poster) PDF
  3. C. Cui, W. Yu, J. Wang “Immersed-Finite-Element Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Dust-Plasma-Spacecraft-Asteroid Interactions”, International School/Symposium of Space Simulation 13th (ISSS-13), UCLA, CA, September 2018. (poster) PDF
  4. C. Cui, J. Wyer, J. Wang, N. Siegel, M. Gruntman, T. Heinsheimer “Surveying martian surface using balloons: an open-architecture mission concept”, Committee On Space Research Symposium, Pasadena, CA, July 2018. (poster) PDF
  5. C. Cui, “The parallelization of DADI solver in PIC codes and its application to the simulation of Hall Thruster”, Beihang University School of Astronautical Engineering 2017 undergraduate thesis defense symposium, Beijing, China, June 2017. (in Chinese) PDF

Undergraduate Thesis (In Chinese)