Lab Director / Associate Professor
Michael P. Kinzel
Computational fluid dynamics, multiphase flow, rotorcraft and hypersonic aerodynamics
active2024–2027
BRITE PIVOT: Leveraging Light-Matter Interactions to Create New Functional Sensors in Low-Gravity Space Environments
Development of functional, light-matter-interaction-based sensors manufactured and characterized in low-gravity and microgravity space environments, in support of in-space manufacturing capability.
- Sponsor
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Funding
- $600,000
Team
Related Publications
2026
Water Droplet Breakup Experiments using Acoustic Levitator at Upper Atmospheric Conditions in a Shock Tube
AJ Aguilera, SM Briggs, M Lindsay, B Suarez, S Vasu, M Kinzel, et al.
AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 0001, 2026
2026
Characterizing UV Resin Curing With Additives Under Simulated Microgravity for In-Space Manufacturing
P Jantananont, E Förster, M Kinzel, S Raghavan
AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 1047, 2026
2026
Effects of containerless curing through in situ characterization with acoustic levitation to advance manufacturing of nanocomposites in microgravity
P Jantananont, E Levenson, C Benmore, M Kinzel, S Raghavan
Journal of visualized experiments, 2026
2024
The Effects of Microgravity on the Development of Osteoporosis
JT Asiatico, MP Kinzel, M Coathup
AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 1553, 2024
2024
In-Space Manufacturing of Functional Sensors Sensors
J Astacio, ML Sorgi_Johann, Z Stein, L Facchini, J Wischek, M Bartsch, et al.
International Astronautical Federation (IAF), 2024
2024
In-space manufacturing of functional sensors
J Astacio, M Johann, Z Stein, L Faccini, J Wischek, M Bartsch, M Kinzel, et al.
2024 IAF Microgravity Sciences and Processes Symposium at the 75th …, 2024
2022
Changes in interstitial fluid flow, mass transport and the bone cell response in microgravity and normogravity
F Wei, K Flowerdew, M Kinzel, LE Perotti, J Asiatico, M Omer, C Hovell, et al.
Bone research 10 (1), 65, 2022
2022
A Model to Study Microscale Bone Flows in Microgravity
T Peterson, S Le Henaff, J Delgado, J Mares, C Hovell, M Coathup, et al.
75th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2022
2021
A study of microgravity on fluid instabilities in microfluidic domain
S Le Henaff, M Kinzel, M Coathup, V Reumers, C Hovell, J Mares
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, T08. 005, 2021