Dr. Marius Banica

Projects

• Extraction of water from the mesophase of a passive low-temperature liquid water storage system: Selection of a minimal energy process / Project leader / completed
• Water and Metal-Powder Micro-Propulsion System for Small Satellites / Project leader / completed
• Development of the next generation of high-pressure pumps for sewer cleaning vehicles on future all-electric carrier vehicles / Team member / completed
• Water Storage System for Lunar Life Support and Exploration / Project leader / completed
• Thermochemical fluids in greenhouse farming / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Murohara, M. et al. (2025) 'Effect of design parameters on flow characteristics in powder supply system for micropropulsion systems', KONA Powder and Particle Journal, 43, pp. 310–322. doi: 10.14356/kona.2026005.
• Banica, M. C. et al. (2023) 'Conceptual assessment of a lipid-based liquid water storage system for lunar life support and exploration', Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 36(6), p. 04023084. doi: 10.1061/JAEEEZ.ASENG-5187.
• Banica, M. C. et al. (2017) 'Numerical prediction of the sources and the modal content of the acoustic field in a radial compressor outflow', Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 139(9), p. 092605. doi: 10.1115/1.4036284.
• Limacher, P. et al. (2017) 'A robust industrial procedure for measuring modal sound fields in the development of radial compressor stages', Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 139(6), p. 062604. doi: 10.1115/1.4035287.
• Banica, M., Fußstetter, K. and Spinder, C. (2016) 'Turbocharger noise reduction on ships', MTZ industrial, 6(2), pp. 40–45. doi: 10.1007/s40353-016-0014-6.
• Banica, M. and Wisse, M. E. N. (2013) 'Dynamical chilldown model of a liquid hydrogen feed system', Journal of Propulsion and Power, 29(4). doi: 10.2514/1.b34658.
• Banica, M. C. et al. (2012) 'Numerical study of supersonic combustion processes with central strut injection', Journal of Propulsion and Power, 26(4), pp. 869–873. doi: 10.2514/1.43599.
• Hou, L., Weigand, B. and Banica, M. (2011) 'Effects of staged injection on supersonic mixing and combustion', Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 24(5), pp. 584–589. doi: 10.1016/s1000-9361(11)60068-x.
• Younis, B. A., Banica, M. C. and Weigand, B. (2006) 'Prediction of vortex shedding with heat transfer', Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 48(1), pp. 1–19. doi: 10.1080/10407780590929892.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Seidelmann, L. et al. (2025) 'Uncertainty quantification of a hypersonic inlet experiment using RANS', in 11th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences (EUCASS), Rome, Italy, 30th June - 4th July 2025. EUCASS. doi: 10.13009/eucass2025-612.
• Murohara, M., Banica, M. C. and Madi, M. (2025) 'De-risking space debris concerns of a chemical micropropulsion system using metal combustion', in 11th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences (EUCASS), Rome, Italy, 30th June - 4th July 2025. EUCASS. doi: 10.13009/eucass2025-196.
• Banica, M. C. (2025) 'Improvements of aerodynamic performance predictions for a corrugated wing profile at Re=10^4 through substitution of the laminar flow assumption by turbulence models', in 11th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences (EUCASS), Rome, Italy, 30th June - 04th July 2025. EUCASS. doi: 10.13009/eucass2025-435.
• Murohara, M. et al. (2024) 'Experimental study of water and aluminum combustion aiming for a novel pulsed-chemical micropropulsion system', in IAF Space Propulsion Symposium. International Astronautical Federation, pp. 188–196. doi: 10.52202/078371-0024.
• Altorfer, T. et al. (2022) 'A liquid water storage system for lunar life support and exploration', in 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Paris, France, 18-22 September 2022. International Astronautical Federation. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-36044.

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