An investigation of factors involved in Hall thruster wall erosion modeling

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE 42nd Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3345-3353

  Yim, John T ^a,b,c   Keidar, Michael ^a,b,c   Boyd, Iain D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA FLOW;

CHANNEL WALLS; HALL THRUSTER; ION VELOCITY;

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

EID: 34249067362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-4657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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