Three-dimensional plasma particle-in-cell calculations of ion thruster backflow contamination

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 6-18

  Samanta Roy, Robie I ^a,b   Hastings, Daniel E ^a   Taylor, Steven ^c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ION PROPULSION; PLASMA DENSITY; XENON;

BACK FLOW; CHARGE-EXCHANGE; COMPUTER ENVIRONMENTS; HYBRID PLASMA; ION THRUSTER; MULTICOMPUTERS; PARTICLE IN CELL; PARTICLE-IN-CELL MODEL; PLASMA PARTICLES; XENON IONS;

IONS;

EID: 0030269189     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1996.0192     Document Type: Article

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