The Main Course
The ESTHER Shock Tube: The European Shock Tube for Enthalpy Research (ESTHER) is the crown jewel of the Hypersonic Plasmas Laboratory. This combustion-driven, laser-ignited, two-stage shock tube has been developed by an international consortium led by IPFN, in the scope of a Technology Research Programme funded by the European Space Agency. The facility is fully remotely handled and is capable of reproducing orbital and superorbital (re)entry flows in most planets of the Solar system. It is a key enabling facility for European planetary exploration missions.
The SPARK Line-by-Line code: The SPARK Line-by-Line code has been developed for the simulation of high-temperature, low-pressure gas and plasma radiation, with an emphasis on radiation from entry plasmas, ground plasma facilities, and Hall effect thrusters. The code has been developped in MATLAB and FORTRAN languages, and is freely distributed under a GNU General Public License.
The GASPAR database: The Gas and Plasma Radiation Database (GasPAR) is a database containing all the relevant data defining the spectroscopic and radiative data for the overall atomic and diatomic species of atmospheric interest. Compilations of numerical data published by different authors is available in downloadable forms.
The STELLAR database: The STELLAR database provides detailed multiquantum datasets of vibrationally-specific rates for the simulation of heavy-impact processes in shocked flows for different compositions: Air (N2, O2, and NO), and CO2. The database tens of thousands rates for V-T, V-D, V-E, recombination, and Zeldovich reactions.
Thesis & papers: Downloadable versions of key peer-reviewed articles, Ph.D. and M.Sc. thesis prepared in the Hypersonic Plasmas Laboratory.
Side Dishes
Self-published books and other materials: Theory and exercise books and other slideshows created by myself and used in support of my academic duties or the training of undergraduate and postgraduate students. The main covered topics are Thermodynamics and Aerothermodynamics.
About the site
A chance observer might find this site to be on the barebones and even sporting unappealing aesthetics. And he would be right. This is a feature, not a bug. After designing a bunch of websites with plenty of eyecandy, using fancy stuff like wordpress and drupal, I just got fed-up with all the associated bullshit (and of getting dickheads from Russia hacking my websites, putting them to work on bitcoin mining and other bs). This website is here to relay information, such as thesis, papers, and numerical codes. I want the site to be as lightweight and simple as possible, so that among other things its ecological footprint remains as low as possible.
In short, we are proud followers of the Motherfucking website philosophy. Have a look at the CO2 footprint of this website, and compare it to the footprint of other popular websites.
By having a website coded with simple php, and without any of the popular apps that pervade the web, I have reclaimed a modicum of Freedom for me and my works (not to mention that the site is more difficult to hack). Freedom is not awarded by some noble benefactor. It is instead wrestled and reclaimed from the clutches of our oppressors. Always was, always will be.