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  1. Spatially and Thermally Resolved Detection of Carbon Ablation Products From High-Power Laser Ablation of Graphite

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina

  2. Comparison of Surface Chemistry Models for the Calculation of Refractive Index Along Hypersonic Vehicle

    Article • July 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina

  3. Analysis of Magnetic Field Effects on Radio Signal Propagation Through Hypersonic Layer Plasma

    Article • July 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Eben Anderson-Ciccone, Albina Tropina

  4. Plasma Enhancement of fs-Filament in N2-O2Mixture With ns-Heating Pulse

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina

  5. Characteristics of Plasma Decay in Dual Pulse Energy Deposition for Air and Nitrogen in Atmospheric Pressure

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Junhwi Bak, Albina Tropina

  6. Optimizations of Antenna Positions and Electromagnetic Mitigation Techniques in Hypersonic Flows

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Eben Anderson-Ciccone, Albina Tropina, Nathan Tichenor

  7. Laser intensity shaping: hydrodynamic effects and energy coupling in dual pulse laser energy deposition

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Junhwi Bak, Albina Tropina

  8. Refractive index field in high-speed flows: ionization effects

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Maninder Grover, Albina Tropina, Eben Anderson-Ciccone

  9. Laser pulse ellipticity and ionization effects

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Mikhail Shneider, Albina Tropina

  10. Refractive Index Modification Induced by Femtosecond Laser Filament

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina

  11. Implementation of Laser Thomson Scattering for Femtosecond Laser-Generated Plasma Channel Characterization

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Junhwi Bak, Albina Tropina

  12. Self-consistent model and numerical approach for laser-induced non-equilibrium plasma

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, December 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Albina Tropina

  13. Collisional plasma sheath effects on thermionic electron emission

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina, Dr. Richard B Miles

  14. Study of electron transpiration cooling under rapid laser heat flux modulation

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Junhwi Bak, Dr. Richard B Miles, Albina Tropina

  15. A theoretical model of refractive index changes with experimental validation at hypersonic speeds

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina, Dr. Richard B Miles, Nicholas Manavi

  16. Effects of the Laser Intensity Profile on Ignition of Hydrogen-Air Mixture

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina, Mikhail Shneider

  17. Nanosecond pulsed discharge in a water vapor

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina, Dr. Richard B Miles

  18. Computational fluid dynamic model of electron transpiration cooling in weakly ionized air flows

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina, Dr. Richard B Miles

  19. Numerical analysis and prediction of Aero-optical effects

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina, Dr. Richard B Miles

  20. Modeling studies of electron transpiration cooling at high-speed flows.

    Article • June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina, Dr. Richard B Miles

  21. Dual-pulse laser energy deposition for the flow control in a supersonic flow

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina

  22. Deflagration to detonation transition assisted by equilibrium and non-equilibrium plasma

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina, Dr. Richard B Miles

  23. Space and time analysis of the N2 vibrational non-equilibrium in the N2 and air nanosecond discharge afterglow

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina, Yue Wu

  24. Mathematical modeling of dual-pulse laser ignition in a turbulent flow

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina, Mikhail Shneider, Dr. Richard B Miles

  25. Aero-optical effects in non-equilibrium air

    Article • June 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina

  26. Mathematical Model of Dual-Pulse Laser Ignition

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, March 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Mikhail Shneider, Dr. Richard B Miles, Albina Tropina

  27. Efficient combustion process

    Article • January 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Albina Tropina