Dr. Marius Banica

Projects

• Development of the next generation of high-pressure pumps for sewer cleaning vehicles on future all-electric carrier vehicles / Team member / ongoing
• 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
• Water Storage System for Lunar Life Support and Exploration / Project leader / completed
• Thermochemical fluids in greenhouse farming / Team member / completed

Publications

• Murohara, Masaya; Banica, Marius C.; Koizumi, Hiroyuki; Madi, Matteo,

  2025.

  Effect of design parameters on flow characteristics in powder supply system for micropropulsion systems.

  KONA Powder and Particle Journal.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.14356/kona.2026005

• Banica, Marius Christian; Altorfer, Tim; Inauen, Jan; Wichser, Dario; Dudli, David; Weber Sutter, Markus; Madi, Matteo; Yao, Yang; Mezzenga, Raffaele,

  2023.

  Conceptual assessment of a lipid-based liquid water storage system for lunar life support and exploration.

  Journal of Aerospace Engineering.

  36(6), pp. 04023084.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1061/JAEEEZ.ASENG-5187

• Murohara, Masaya; Banica, Marius Christian; Madi, Matteo,

  2025.

  De-risking space debris concerns of a chemical micropropulsion system using metal combustion[paper].

  In:

  11th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences (EUCASS), Rome, Italy, 30th June - 4th July 2025.

  EUCASS.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.13009/eucass2025-196

• Banica, Marius 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[paper].

  In:

  11th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences (EUCASS), Rome, Italy, 30th June - 04th July 2025.

  EUCASS.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.13009/eucass2025-435

• Seidelmann, Leonhard; Vorwald, Jan; Hertach, Aron; Witzig, Jason; Hoste, Jimmy-John; Banica, Marius C.,

  2025.

  Uncertainty quantification of a hypersonic inlet experiment using RANS[paper].

  In:

  11th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences (EUCASS), Rome, Italy, 30th June - 4th July 2025.

  EUCASS.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.13009/eucass2025-612

• Murohara, Masaya; Banica, Marius; Koizumi, Hiroyuki; Madi, Matteo,

  2024.

  Experimental study of water and aluminum combustion aiming for a novel pulsed-chemical micropropulsion system[paper].

  In:

  IAF Space Propulsion Symposium.

  IAF Space Propulsion Symposium, held at the 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Milan, Italy, 14-18 October 2024.

  International Astronautical Federation.

  pp. 188-196.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.52202/078371-0024

• Altorfer, Tim; Dudli, David; Banica, Marius C.; Weber Sutter, Markus; Wichser, Dario; Madi, Matteo; Yao, Yang; Mezzenga, Raffaele,

  2022.

  A liquid water storage system for lunar life support and exploration[paper].

  In:

  73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Paris, France, 18-22 September 2022.

  International Astronautical Federation.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36044

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