ESTHER is part of the Gaseous Electronics Group of the Institute for Plasmas an Nuclear Fusion, an Associated Laboratory of Instituto Superior Técnico.
The team will host the European Shock-Tube for High Enthalpy Research, where experimental research on plasma radiation of high-speed (>10km/s) shocked flows will be carried out.
The team also carries theoretical and numerical research on nonequilibrium kinetics and radiation in hypersonic shocked flows. We maintain and propose several databases and numerical codes on CFD, kinetics, and radiation of entry plasmas.