
Practicum Experience(s)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (2024)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2023)
Annual Program Review Abstracts
Publications
Sheng Mao, Derek A. Kuldinow, Mikko P. Haataja, and Andrej Kosmrlj. "Phase behavior and morphology of multicomponent liquid mixtures." Soft Matter, 15.6 (2019): 1297-1311.
Derek A. Kuldinow, Kentaro Hara, Diego Morales, and Christopher Limbach. "Numerical Simulation of Laser and Particle Coupled Beam Propagation." AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2019 Forum, AIAA-2019-3803 (2019).
Jittisa Ketkaew, Rui Yamada, Hui Wang, Derek A. Kuldinow, Benjamin Sol Schroers, Wojciech Dmowski, Takeshi Egami, and Jan Schroers. "The effect of thermal cycling on the fracture toughness of metallic glasses." Acta Materialia, 184 (2020): 100-108.
Andres M. Castillo, Derek A. Kuldinow, and Kentaro Hara. "Collisional effects in a laser and particle coupled beam." AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2020 Forum, AIAA-2020-3519 (2020).
Prabhat Kumar, Derek A. Kuldinow, Andres Castillo, Alexandros Gerakis, and Kentaro Hara. "Nonlinear dynamics of coupled light and particle beam propagation." Physical Review A, 103.4 (2021): 043502.
Derek A. Kuldinow, Alexis Przybylak, Yizhi Li, Luis J. Perez-Lorenzo, Derek Oberreit, and Juan Fernandez de la Mora. "Heterogeneous nucleation measurements in a sheathed planar diffusive condensation particle counter." Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 605 (2022): 556-570.
Derek A. Kuldinow, Alexis Przybylak, Luis J. Perez-Lorenzo, Derek Oberreit and Juan Fernandez de la Mora. "Cluster activation studies with a diffusive condensation particle counter: Effect of chemical composition." Journal of Aerosol Science, 161 (2022): 105917.
Derek A. Kuldinow, Adnan R. Mansour and Kentaro Hara. "Development of 10-moment Fluid Model for Plasma Simulations." In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, AIAA-2022-1564 (2022).
Derek A. Kuldinow, Adnan R. Mansour and Kentaro Hara. "Development of a Ten-Moment Fluid Model for Low-Temperature Magnetized Plasmas." In 2022 International Electric Propulsion Conference, IEPC-2022-327 (2022)
Derek A. Kuldinow, Yusuke Yamashita, Adnan R. Mansour, and Kentaro Hara. "Ten-Moment Fluid Model with Heat Flux Closure for Gasdynamic Flows." Journal of Computational Physics, 508 (2024): 113030
Derek A. Kuldinow, Yusuke Yamashita, and Kentaro Hara. "Ten-moment fluid model for low-temperature magnetized plasmas." Physics of Plasmas 31.12 (2024): 123506.
Derek A. Kuldinow and Kentaro Hara. "Ten-moment fluid modeling of the Weibel instability." Journal of Plasma Physics, 91.2 (2025): E66.
Derek A. Kuldinow, William T. Taitano and Kentaro Hara. "A High-Order Low-Order Vlasov-Darwin particle-in-cell algorithm." https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08530 (In review)
Awards
Finalist, Student Award for Excellence, 78th Gaseous Electronics Conference
Recipient, France-Stanford Center Visiting Student Researcher Fellowship
Recipient, 2025 DOE NNSA SSGF/LRGF Essay Slam Award for excellence
Recipient, IEEE Pulsed Power & Plasma Science Conference 2025 Travel Grant
Recipient, 2022 Gaseous Electronics Conference Student Travel Grant
Recipient, Department of Energy NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (2022-2026)
Recipient, NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity Fellowship (2021)
Recipient, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2021, Declined)
Tau Beta Pi Honors Society Member, Scholarship Recipient
Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society Member
Sigma Pi Sigma Honors Society Member
NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium Scholarship