Chen Cui

Chen Cui received his Ph.D. in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2023, where he also completed his Master’s degree in High-Performance Computing. Chen Cui earned his Bachelor’s degree from Beihang University. Chen Cui’s research intersects plasma dynamics, aerospace engineering, and high-performance computing, focusing on the high-fidelity predictive fully kinetic modeling of plasma flows in spacecraft electric propulsion thrusters and solar wind. Chen Cui is the primary developer of Vlasolver, a large-scale parallelized fully kinetic plasma modeling framework.

C. Cui and J. Wang, “Vlasov Simulations of Electric Propulsion Beam”, 2023, (submitted)
Y. Zhao, C. Cui, and Y. Hu, “Rigorously Conservative Charge and Current Deposition in 3D Cylindrical PIC”, Computational Particle Mechanics, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 495–502, 2023
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)
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
C. Cui and J. Wang, “Grid-based Vlasov Simulation of Collisionless Plasma Expansion”, Physics of Plasmas, vol. 28, no. 9, p. 093510, 2021
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

Chen Cui

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