I am a mechanical engineer currently working as a technical student at CERN.
In the Projects section, you can find brief reports of projects I have been involved in.
About Ionizer
In the spring of 2022, I started to work on an ion truster simulation program (Ionizer) at Bogazici University Space Technologies Laboratory.
It's a tricky simulation because the applicability of the continuum assumption is questionable since the operating pressures are pretty low. Therefore, the molecular theory has to be employed.
Ionizer is being written in C++, and its goal is to solve the 3D Poisson's equation to calculate the electrostatic field inside the thruster and move the ions accordingly with the well-established molecular approach, PIC-DSMC.
To check out the repository and contribute on Github, click here.
Currently, it solves 3D Poisson's equation for the potential field, which is how it looks:
About My YouTube Channel
In June 2020, I instructed the entire Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics course on YouTube, which has so far received more than 200,000 views. You can see two of my videos below.