High-specific impulse Hall thrusters, part 2: Efficiency analysis

Journal of Propulsion and Power

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 732-740

  Hofer, Richard R ^a,c,d,e   Gallimore, Alec D ^b,e,f  

^a QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e AIAA   (United States)

^f Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IONIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DEVICES; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

CHARGE UTILIZATION; CURRENT UTILIZATION; EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS; HIGH-SPECIFIC IMPULSE HALL THRUSTERS; MASS UTILIZATION; PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE; VOLTAGE UTILIZATION;

PROPELLERS;

EID: 33746927586     PISSN: 07484658     EISSN: 15333876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.15954     Document Type: Article

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