RGD 2024
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I gave a talk at the 33rd International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics in Gottingen, Germany, titled “Evaluation of Ambipolar Diffusion using an Eulerian Grid-based Boltzmann Solver”.
Marisa Petrusky, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for National Security Initiatives
- Boulder, CO
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Google Scholar
- ORCID
- ResearchGate
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