Firat Sik is a fourth year undergraduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Firat has joined the group in June 2013 and has been an official part of the ion thruster project since October 1, 2013. Firat has been involved in the ion thruster grid region modeling under the guidance of Emre Turkoz. He is contributing to the PIC code by developing algorithms in C++. He is also helping with the ion thruster manufacturing.

Firat has contributed to the following publications:

Journal Publications

Turkoz, E.; Sik, F.; Celik, M., "Numerical Simulation of Particle Trajectories in Ion Thruster Grid Region Plasma using a PIC-DSMC Code," European Physical Journal-D, 2015: SUBMITTED - under review
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Conference Proceedings

Turkoz, E.; Sik, F. and Celik, M., "Investigation of the Geometry Configuration Variations on the Performance of Ion Thruster Grids with PIC-DSMC Simulations," 34th International Electric Propulsion Conference, 2015, also IEPC-2015-218
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Satir, M.; Sik, F.; Turkoz, E. and Celik, M., "Design of the Retarding Potential Analyzer to be used with BURFIT-80 Ion Thruster and Validation using PIC-DSMC Code," 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST), vol., no., pp.511,516, 16-19 June 2015.
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Turkoz, E., Sik, F. and Celik, M., “Trajectory Studies through Numerical Simulation of Ion Thruster Grid Region Plasma with PIC-DSMC Approach in 3D," 5th Russian-German Conference on Electric Propulsion, Dresden, Germany, September 2014.
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Turkoz, E., Sik, F. and Celik, M., “A Study of Ion Thruster Optics through Particle Simulations and Evaluation of the Near Plume Plasma," 50th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, Cleveland, OH, July 2014, also AIAA-2014-3412.
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