Ashwyn Sam

Physicist at Pacific Fusion

Education

MS, Aeronatics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 2022

BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, 2020

BS, Mathematics, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, 2020

Solitons

Plasma Physics

Computational Modeling

Spacecraft Charging

Sam, A., Crabtree, C., & Elschot, S. (2026). Ion Landau damping of ion-acoustic solitons via nonlinear saturation and electron-mediated energy transfer. Physics of Plasmas, 33(5), 052109. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0326047