Michael Winter Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Responsible for plasma diagnostics on microwave generated thrusters, thermal imaging, high-speed imaging, loss quantification, thrust measurements, developments of test setups, thruster performance characterization.

Lexington, Ky, Us

Teaching at UK:ME627 Radiation Heat TransferME599/699 Spacecraft PropulsionME 325 Elements of Heat TransferME 395 Independent Study ProjectsME 411/412 Senior Design Projects „Design and Optimization of an Inertia Electrostatic Confinement Plasma Generator“, Fall 2015/Spring 2016 and „Design Optimization of Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Plasma Generators at UK“, Fall 2016/Spring 2017Research Interests:- Plasma Generation (10.5 kW RF plasma generator, 3 kW Microwave Generator, Intertial Electrostatic Confinement plasma for application as propulsion systems and as a tool for material sciences)- Electric Propulsion research- Combustion research (counter-flow, co-flow, and microflame setups)- Plasma and Combustion Diagnostics (emission and absorption spectroscopy, Fabry-Perot interferometry, heat flux measurements, Langmuir probes)- Radiation Heat Transfer- Spectral simulation of plasma and combustion emission- Emissivity measurements at elevated temperatures

Employed through University Affiliated Research Center, UC Santa Cruz• Optical Plasma Diagnostics at the NASA Ames Arc-jet Facilities• Airborne Observation of The Hayabusa Re-entry• Radiation Modeling (Neqair)Task Manager High Enthalpy Environments (formerly Nano TPS) from January 2010

• Project Management for ESA projects• Airborne Observation of the ATV Re-entry

• Teaching: Plasma Diagnostic Methods; Electric Propulsion; Unconventional Spacecraft Propulsion; Measurement Techniques; Quality Assurance (Hamburger Fernfachhochschule – University of Applied Sciences)• Development and testing of high power self field and medium power applied field MPD thrusters; • Plasma diagnostics with probes and optical methods (Langmuir probes, emission spectroscopy, Fabry Perot interferometry, laser based methods) on:- MPD thrusters operated with argon and Ion thrusters operated with xenon- Technical plasmas with different propellants- Plasma flows for atmospheric entries with air and CO2• Development of flight experiments for atmospheric entries• Theoretical work on the simulation of molecular emission spectra and collisional radiative models, Airborne Observation Missions: emission spectroscopy measurements, radiation predictions