Kentaro Hara
Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M University
United States of America
Biography
Kentaro Hara is working as an assistant professor in the department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He has completed his Ph.D in Aerospace Engineering at University of Michigan in 2015. he has got Graduate Certificate in Plasma Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2015. He has done M.Eng. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from University of Tokyo in 2010. He has done B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo in 2008. He has won several awards like Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015), IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Graduate Scholarship Award (2015), Outstanding Student Paper Award, 41st IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (2014).
Research Interest
Electric Propulsion, Plasma Physics and Applications, Kinetic Theory and Simulations, Computational Fluid Dynamics
Publications
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K. Hara, M. J. Sekerak, I. D. Boyd, and A. D. Gallimore, "Mode transition of a Hall thruster discharge plasma", Journal of Applied Physics 115, 203304 (2014)
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K. Hara, M. J. Sekerak, I. D. Boyd, and A. D. Gallimore, "Perturbation analysis of ionization oscillations in Hall eff ect thrusters", Physics of Plasmas 21, 122103, (2014)
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K. Hara, T. Chapman, J. W. Banks, S. Brunner, I. Joseph, R. L. Berger, and I. D. Boyd, "Quantitative study of trapped particle bunching instability in Langmuir waves", Physics of Plasmas 22, 022104, (2015)
