Kentaro Hara

Educational Background

Ph.D, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan - 2015
Graduate Certificate, Plasma Science and Engineering, University of Michigan - 2015
M.Eng., Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Tokyo - 2010
B.S., Aeronautics & Astronautics, University of Tokyo - 2008

- Electric Propulsion
- Plasma Physics and Applications
- Kinetic Theory and Simulations
- Computational Fluid Dynamics

Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award, 2018
Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) Award, 2018
JPL Summer Faculty Research Fellow, 2017
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
Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement, University of Michigan, 2013
Best Student Presentation Award, 41st Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 2010

K. Hara, I. Barth, E. Kaminski, I. Y. Dodin, and N. J. Fisch, "Kinetic simulations of ladder climbing by electron plasma waves", Physical Review E, 95, 053212 (2017)
K. M. Hanquist, K. Hara, and I. D. Boyd, "Detailed Modeling of Electron Emission for Transpiration Cooling of Hypersonic Vehicles", Journal of Applied Physics 121, 053302 (2017)
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)
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)
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)
K. Hara, I. D. Boyd, and V. I. Kolobov, "One-dimensional hybrid-direct kinetic simulation of the discharge plasma in a Hall thruster", Physics of Plasmas 19, 113508 (2012)