Plasma generation using high-power millimeter-wave beam and its application for thrust generation

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Oda, Yasuhisa ^a   Komurasaki, Kimiya ^a   Takahashi, Koji ^b   Kasugai, Atsushi ^b   Sakamoto, Keishi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PLASMAS; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

IONIZATION FRONT; PLASMA GENERATION; POWER DENSITY; PROPAGATION VELOCITY;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 33845774883     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2399899     Document Type: Article

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