Andres Castillo
- Program Year: 2
- Academic Institution: Stanford University
- Field of Study: Multidisciplinary Computational Sciences
- Academic Advisor: Kentaro Hara
- Residencies:
Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico (2024) - Degree(s):
M.S. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 2021; B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2019
Publications
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONSA. M. Castillo and K. Hara, "Loss cone effects and monotonic sheath conditions of a partially magnetized plasma sheath"[In Review], (2024)
A. M. Castillo, P. Kumar, C. M. Limbach, K. Hara, "Mutually Guided Light and Particle Beam Propagation", Scientific Reports 12, 4810 (2022)
P. Kumar, D. Kuldinow, A. M. Castillo, A. Gerakis, and K. Hara, "Nonlinear dynamics of coupled light and particle beam propagation", Physical Review A 103, 043502 (2021)
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
A. M. Castillo and K. Hara, "Monotonic sheath conditions of partially magnetized plasma sheaths", 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Denver, CO, October 2023
A. M. Castillo, M. M. Hopkins, A. M. Lietz, K. Hara, "Plasma chemistry modelling of SF6 replacement gas for high voltage switches", 6th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC), Ann Arbor, MI, October 2023
A. M. Castillo, A. M. Lietz, M. M. Hopkins, and K. Hara, "Plasma global model of Novec 4710/CO2 mixture for high voltage switches", 2023 IEEE PPC, San Antonio, TX, June 2023
A. M. Castillo and K. Hara, "Particle-in-cell simulation of magnetized plasma sheath"[Poster], 50th IEEE ICOPS 2023, Santa Fe, NM, May 2023
A. M. Castillo and K. Hara, "Kinetic simulation of magnetized plasma sheaths with oblique magnetic fields", APS Far West Section Fall 2022 Meeting, Honolulu, HI, Oct 2022
A. M. Castillo and K. Hara, "Kinetic modeling of plasma-wall interactions with magnetic field and secondary emission effects", IEPC-2022-382, 37th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Cambridge, MA, June 2022
A. M. Castillo and K. Hara, "Kinetic simulation of plasma sheath relevant to cross-field diodes", 49th IEEE ICOPS 2022, Seattle, WA, May 2022
A. M. Castillo, P. Kumar and K. Hara, "Computational modeling of a coupled light-particle beam propagation", 2022 AIAA SciTech Forum, AIAA 2022-2261, San Diego, CA, January 2022
P. Kumar, A. Castillo, A. Gerakis, and K. Hara, "Computational modeling of a nonlinearly coupled light and particle beam propagation", 74th Annual Meeting of Gaseous Electronics Conference, October 2021 (virtual).
A. Castillo, P. Kumar, and K. Hara, "Laser and Particle Coupled Beam Propagation for Deep Space Propulsion", AIAA 2021-3249, AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum, August 2021 (virtual).
A. Castillo, D. Kuldinow, and K. Hara, "Collisional effects in a laser and particle coupled beam", AIAA-2020-3519, 2020 AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum, August 2020 (virtual).
Awards
DOE NNSA Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 2023-2024Charles Lee Powell Fellowship, Stanford University, 2019-2021
Engineering Honors, University of Texas at Austin, 2019
Presidential Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 2015-2019
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 2015-2019
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 2015-2019