Amanda M. Lietz
Ph.D Candidate
Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department
University of Michigan

Abstract

Low temperature, atmospheric pressure plasma sources have been used to generate reactive chemistry for many new possible applications in environmental and biomedical fields.  Plasma treatment has recently been shown to remove pollutants from water, increase the shelf life of produce, heal chronic diabetic wounds, and selectively kill cancer cells.  In this seminar, control mechanisms of reactive species production by atmospheric pressure plasma sources will be explored based on the results of numerical modeling.  These low temperature plasma sources can also affect bulk gas flow, and localized gas heating was found to be critical in this interaction.

Biography

Amanda M. Lietz is a PhD candidate in the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department at the University of Michigan.  Her research interests include computational modeling of reactive flows, multiphysics modeling, and low temperature plasma chemistry.  Lietz received a B.S. in Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She is the recipient of multiple national fellowships including National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, and was awarded the Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research.

***This seminar will be streamed live on our NCStateNuclear YouTube channel***