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Choueiri



Edgar Choueiri, Professor
Director, EPPDyL

Ph.D. Princeton University (1991)
 
Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Knight of the Order of Cedars

President, Electric Rocket Propulsion Society


Choueiri Elected President of the Lebanese Academy of Sciences

Profile

Edgar Choueiri is a Professor in the Applied Physics Group at MAE and Associated Faculty at the Astrophysical Sciences Department/Program in Plasma Physics. He is also Chief Scientist and Director of the Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory (EPPDyL) and Director of Princeton's Program in Engineering Physics. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Professor Choueiri is the author of more than 135 articles on analytical, experimental, and numerical problems in plasma and advanced propulsion for spacecraft, plasma physics and dynamics, instabilities and turbulence in collisional plasmas, and applied mathematics. He has served as Principal Investigator on more than twenty contracts and grants from NASA, Air Force and other funding agencies. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA,  Associate Editor of the Journal of Propulsion and Power and Chairman of the AIAA Electric Propulsion Technical Committee for 2002ñ2004.


 

Selected Publications

  1. E.Y. Choueiri. Optimal Crosstalk Cancellation for Binaural Audio with Two Loudspeakers.
    Submitted for Publication in Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, January 2008.
  2. L. Uribarri and E.Y. Choueiri. Relationship Between Anode Spots and Onset Voltage Hash
    in Quasi-Steady Magnetoplasmadynamic Thrusters.  Journal of Propulsion and Power, vol.24 no.3, pp.571-577, 2008.
  3. L. Uribarri and E.Y. Choueiri. Corruption Effects of Power Supply Resonances on Measurements of Fluctuations in Electric Thrusters. Journal of Propulsion and Power,  vol.24 no.3, pp.637-639, 2008.
  4. J.E. Cooley and E.Y. Choueiri. Threshold Criteria for Undervoltage Breakdown Submitted
    for Publication in Journal of Applied Physics, vo. 103, 093305, 2008.
  5. R. Spektor and E. Y. Choueiri. Ion acceleration by beating electrostatic waves: Domain of allowed acceleration.  Physical Review, E ,  69(4):Article No. 046402, 2004.  [Electronic Access]
  6. E. Y. Choueiri. A critical history of electric propulsion: The first 50 years (1906-1956).  Journal of Propulsion and Power, 20(2):193--203, 2004.  [Electronic Access]
  7. T.E. Markusic, E. Y. Choueiri, and J.W. Berkery. Measurements of current sheet canting in a pulsed electromagnetic accelerator. Accepted for Publication in  Physics of Plasmas ,  April 2004. 
  8. K. Sankaran, E. Y. Choueiri, and S. C. Jardin. Comparison of simulated plasma flowfields to experimental measurements for a gas-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster. Accepted for Publication in the  Journal of Propulsion and Power ,  April, 2004.  [Electronic Access]
  9. K. Polzin and E.Y. Choueiri. A similarity parameter for capillary flows.  Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics,  36(24):3156--3167, 2003.  [Electronic Access]
  10. E.Y. Choueiri. Instability of a current-carrying finite-beta collisional plasma.  Physical Review, E,  64(6):Article No. 066413, 2001.  [Electronic Access]
  11. E.Y. Choueiri. Fundamental difference between the two Hall thruster variants.  Physics of Plasmas,  8(11):5025--5033, 2001.  [Electronic Access]
  12. E.Y. Choueiri. Plasma oscillations in Hall thrusters. Physics of Plasmas , 8(4):1411--1426, 2001.  [Electronic Access]
  13. R.G. Jahn and E.Y. Choueiri. Electric propulsion. Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology , 3rd Edition, volume 5, pages 125--141. The Academic Press, San Diego, 2001.  [Electronic Access]
  14. E.Y. Choueiri. Anomalous resistivity and heating in current-driven plasma thrusters. Physics of Plasmas , 6(5):2290--2306, 1999.  [Electronic Access]


 


 

D432 Engineering Quadrangle

(609) 258-5220

choueiri@princeton.edu


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Professor Choueiri's ongoing research projects are described at EPPDyL's website where there is a search engine that can be used to search and download many of the laboratory's hundreds of publications.