Cedrick Ngalande
Visiting Assistant Professor of Astronautics

Address:
University of Southern California
Division of Astronautical Engineering
854B Downey Way
Los Angeles, California 90089-1192

Office: RRB 225

Telephone: (213) 740-7228

Email: ngalande@usc.edu

Research Interests: Space environment, spacecraft propulsion, alternative energy

Education:

Selected Publications:

     Selden, N., Ngalande, C.,  Gimelshein, N., Gimelshein, S., Ketsdever, A., "Origins of radiometric forces on a circular vane with a temperature gradient", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, in press

     Selden, N., Ngalande, C., Muntz, E.P., Gimelshein, S., Alexeenko, A., Ketdever, A., "Area and edge effects in radiometric forces,"  Phys. Rev. E 79, 041201, 2009

Ngalande, C., Gimelshein, S., Shneider, S., "Gas Mixing with Pulsed Optical Lattices," Phys. Fluids 19, 128101, 2007

Ngalande, C., Lilly, T., Killingsworth, M., Gimelshein, S., Ketsdever,A., "Nozzle Plume Impingement on Spacecraft Surfaces: Effects of Surface Roughness," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets 43, 1013-1018, 2006

Alexeenko, A. A., Gimelshein, S. F., Ngalande, C, "Modeling of Radiometric Force Actuation using the DSMC and ES/BGK Approaches," American Physical Society, 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 19-21, 2006

Shneider, M.N., Ngalande, C., Gimelshein, S.F., "Micropropulsion Devices with Pulsed Optical Lattices / Gas Nonresonant Dipole Interaction," AIAA-2006-768, 2006

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