A model of near-wall conductivity and its application to plasma thrusters

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1138-1162

  Degond, P ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Accommodation boundary condition transport diffusion equation; Diffusion approximation; Electrical conductivity; Energy transport model; Hall thruster; Isotropic scattering; Transport equation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF GASES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA DEVICES;

HALL THRUSTER; ISOTROPIC SCATTERING; PLASMA THRUSTERS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0032140281     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139996300897     Document Type: Article

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