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NASA Ames (PhD 2023)

Joseph C. Ferguson

2019 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) recipient

Publications

  • Ferguson, J. C., Panerai, F., Lachaud, J., Martin, A., Bailey, S. C., & Mansour, N. N. (2016). Modeling the oxidation of low-density carbon fiber material based on micro-tomography. Carbon, 96, 57-65.
  • Ferguson, J. C., Panerai, F., Lachaud, J., & Mansour, N. N. (2017). Theoretical study on the micro-scale oxidation of resin-infused carbon ablators. Carbon, 121, 552-562.
  • Ferguson, J. C., Panerai, F., Borner, A., & Mansour, N. N. (2018). PuMA: The porous microstructure analysis software. SoftwareX, 7, 81-87.
  • Ferguson, J. C., Sobhani, S., & Ihme, M. (2020). Pore-resolved simulations of porous media combustion with conjugate heat transfer. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.
  • Panerai, F., Ferguson, J. C., Lachaud, J., Martin, A., Gasch, M. J., & Mansour, N. N. (2017). Micro-tomography based analysis of thermal conductivity, diffusivity and oxidation behavior of rigid and flexible fibrous insulators. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 108, 801-811.
  • Jambunathan, R., Levin, D. A., Borner, A., Ferguson, J. C., & Panerai, F. (2019). Prediction of gas transport properties through fibrous carbon preform microstructures using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 130, 923-937.
  • Semeraro, F., Ferguson, J. C., Panerai, F., King, R. J., & Mansour, N. N. (2020). Anisotropic analysis of fibrous and woven materials part 1: Estimation of local orientation. Computational Materials Science, 178, 109631.
  • Semeraro, F., Ferguson, J. C., Acin, M., Panerai, F., & Mansour, N. N. (2021). Anisotropic analysis of fibrous and woven materials part 2: Computation of effective conductivity. Computational Materials Science, 186, 109956.
  • Zhu, F., Xu, J., Palli, R., Ferguson, J., & Palli, S. R. (2011). Ingested RNA interference for managing the populations of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. Pest management science, 67(2), 175-182.

Education

MS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2020
BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2016

Research

Entry Systems Modeling
Microscale Modeling
Computational Fluid Dynamics