Vacuum chamber pressure maps of a hall thruster cold-flow expansion

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1127-1132

  Walker, Mitchell L R ^a,b   Gallimore, Alec D ^a,c   Boyd, Iain D ^a,d   Cai, Chunpei ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Plasmadyn and Elec Propuls Lab   (United States)

^c 3037 FXB Building

^d 3012 FXB Building

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROBABILITY; THERMAL PLUMES; VACUUM;

COLD-FLOW EXPANSION; HALL THRUSTERS; PRESSURE MAPS; VACUUM CHAMBERS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 10244229098     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.8973     Document Type: Article

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