Plasmas: Technology and Experiments

Electrical Discharge Laboratory
Researchers and assistants: Héctor Kelly, Adriana Márquez, Diana Grondona, Fernando Minotti, Leandro Giuliani, Ariel Kleiman, Andrés Arias, Mariana Fazio, Lina Franco Arias, Jorge Luis Gallego Cano, with the collaboration of Guillermo Artana and Roberto Sosa from FI-UBA and CONICET; Leandro Prevosto and Beatriz Mancinelli from UTN Venado Tuerto and CONICET; Sonia Brühl and Laura Vaca from UTN Concepción del Uruguay.
Research and development of Plasma Technologies. Coatings, surface thermal treatments, cutting of metals. Study of plasmas generated by electrical discharges. Development of diagnostics. Development of plasma actuators. [more]

Plasma Focus Laboratory
Researchers and assistants: César Moreno, Pablo Knoblauch, Verónica Raspa, Francisco Di Lorenzo, Leonardo Gagetti, with the collaboration of Alejandro Clausse from PLADEMA [UNICEN-CNEA] and CONICET.
Development of Plasma Focus devices: Physics of transient, supersonic plasma sheaths. Ultra-dense transient plasmas. Electrical modeling. Plasma diagnostics: electrical diagnostics, magnetic probes, soft and hard X-ray detection, fusion neutron detection.
Applications of ultra-dense transient plasmas: Transient radiographies. Neutron tomography.
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Optical Doppler Effect
Researchers and assistants: Luis Bilbao, with the collaboration of Luis Bernal, UNMP and CONICET.  
Development of plasma diagnostic techniques based on optical Doppler effect.

Plasmas: Theoretical and Computational Research

Magnetosphere plasmas
Researchers: Luis Bilbao, Graciela Gnavi, Fausto T. Gratton, with the collaboration of Charles J. Farrugia from Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.  
Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. Magneto-pause. Interpretation of satellite plasma measurements.

Viscous flows with free-surfaces
Researchers: Julio Gratton, with the collaboration of Carlos Perazzo from Unv. Favaloro and CONICET.
Auto-similar solutions. Geophysical flows. Orogeny.

Fluid dynamics of flapping wings
Researchers and assistants: Fernando Minotti and E. Speranza.
Theory and numerical simulations of flow generated by flapping motions. Determination of forces on flapping wings from optical velocimetry data.