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Research

  • Tentative Thesis Title: Planetary Entry, Descent and Landing Design Space Exploration
  • Highlights
    • Developing trajectory and propulsion modeling and optimization tool to investigate performance of various entry body configurations

Publications

  • Cunio, P., Ishimatsu, T., Keller, J., Khan, Z. and Odegard,R. “The Feasibility of In Situ Resource Utilization for a Mars Sample Return Mission”, AIAA SPACE 2007 Conference and Exposition, Long Beach, California, Sep. 18-20, 2007, AIAA-2007-6064.
  • Landis, G. A., Cunio, P., Ishimatsu, T., Keller, J., Khan, Z., and Odegard, R., "Mars Sample Return with ISRU," 7th International Conference on Mars, Pasadena CA, July 9-13 2007.
  • Dal-Cin, M., Darcovich, K., Bourdoncle, M., Khan, Z. and Caza D. “Comparison of CFD and one-dimensional Bernoulli solutions of the flow in a plate and frame ultrafiltration module in Z configuration.” Journal of Membrane Science, vol. 268, no. 1, pp. 74-85, 2006.
  • Khan, Z., Bailey, T., Daigo, K., Kittell, K., Plitt, R., Schuck, J. and Tan, A. “Space Generation Congress 2004 Inspiring Education Projects”. International Astronautical Congress 2005 Proceedings. IAF.P.E.1.3.