Reference number : GC-2017-Q1-03215, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Jugroot, Manish (Royal Military College of Canada)|Jugroot, Manish (Collège militaire royal du Canada), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Discovery Grants Program - Individual, program name french : Programme de subventions à la découverte - individuelles, program purpose english : In recent years, significant efforts have been made to fabricate small plasma sources that can be integrated with other micro-devices to form more complex microsystems. Understanding and controlling the dynamics within small spaces will therefore be crucial to both fundamental research and technological innovations. Micro-scale plasmas with their very high concentration of charged and excited particles represent a new regime of operation for low-temperature plasmas. The proposal will describe the rationale and methods to achieve the goals that will contribute to new science and engineering opened by microplasmas in the aerospace field, namely plasma-based propulsion for small spacecraft and active flow control. The project will pursue the detailed understanding of all the flow parameters (both neutral gas and charged species) via computer simulations and investigate miniaturization of flow control and spacecraft propulsion systems. A self-consistent coupling modeling formalism will provide both a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the effects between plasma and fluid. Interestingly, the high-fidelity simulation results have the potential of providing access to local but critical parameters (difficult to obtain experimentally due to the small scales) on other complex interactions between the plasma flow and gas: involving both momentum and energy transfers and also complex cross-related effects., program purpose french : In recent years, significant efforts have been made to fabricate small plasma sources that can be integrated with other micro-devices to form more complex microsystems. Understanding and controlling the dynamics within small spaces will therefore be crucial to both fundamental research and technological innovations. Micro-scale plasmas with their very high concentration of charged and excited particles represent a new regime of operation for low-temperature plasmas. The proposal will describe the rationale and methods to achieve the goals that will contribute to new science and engineering opened by microplasmas in the aerospace field, namely plasma-based propulsion for small spacecraft and active flow control. The project will pursue the detailed understanding of all the flow parameters (both neutral gas and charged species) via computer simulations and investigate miniaturization of flow control and spacecraft propulsion systems. A self-consistent coupling modeling formalism will provide both a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the effects between plasma and fluid. Interestingly, the high-fidelity simulation results have the potential of providing access to local but critical parameters (difficult to obtain experimentally due to the small scales) on other complex interactions between the plasma flow and gas: involving both momentum and energy transfers and also complex cross-related effects., agreement title english : Characterizing micro-plasmas for aerospace applications: electric propulsion and active flow control, agreement title french : Characterizing micro-plasmas for aerospace applications: electric propulsion and active flow control, agreement number : RGPIN, agreement value : 125000.0, agreement start date : 2017-05-10, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2022-2023), additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier. (2017-2018 à 2022-2023), owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada