Spacecraft plasma environment and contamination simulation code: description and first tests

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 205-211

  Roussel, Jean François ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PLASMA SIMULATION; PLASMA STABILITY;

CELL SIZE TO DEBYE LENGTH RATIOS; CHILD LANGMUIR LAW; LANGMUIR PROBES; PARTIAL CUBES; PARTICLE IN CELL PLASMA MODULES;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0032028193     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3311     Document Type: Article

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