Christopher Limbach

Educational Background

- Laser diagnostics for hypersonics, plasmas, directed energy and remote sensing
- Plasma applications to hypersonic flow control and propulsion
- Non-equilibrium and multi-phase plasmadynamics
- Innovative space propulsion concepts

NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program Fellow (2018, 2019).
Nakayama Award Recipient for Fluid Control, Measurement and Visualization, FLUCOM Conference, 10/17, Notre Dame, IN.

C.M. Limbach, “Fully resolved lineshape measurement of a seeded and unseeded optical parametric oscillator using a virtually imaged phased array spectrometer,” Opt. Lett. 44, 3821-3824 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.44.003821
A. Tropina, Y. Wu, C.M. Limbach and R.B. Miles, “Influence of vibrational non-equilibrium on the polarizability and refraction index in air: computational study,” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, (2019) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ab5bb2/meta
C.M. Limbach and R.B. Miles, “Rayleigh Scattering Measurements of Heating and Gas Perturbations Accompanying Femtosecond Laser Tagging,” AIAA Journal. Vol. 55, No. 1 (2017) pp. 112-120 Article in Advance. DOI: 10.2514/1.J054772
R.B. Miles, J.B. Michael, C.M. Limbach, S.D. McGuire, T.L. Chng, M.R. Edwards, N.J. DeLuca, M.N. Shneider and A. Dogariu. “New Diagnostic Methods for Laser Plasma- and Microwave- Enhanced Combustion,” Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, Vol. 373, No. 2048 (2015).
C.M. Limbach, L. Martinelli and R.B. Miles. “Adjoint Optimization of Sources in Steady, Supersonic Flow: Energy Addition,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 51, No. 10 (2013). https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J052357