Adaptively meshed fully-kinetic PIC-vlasov model for near vacuum hall thrusters

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 219-229

  Fox, Justin M ^a,b,c,d   Batishcheva, Alla A ^a,c   Batishchev, Oleg V ^b,d,e   Martinez Sanchez, Manuel ^b,d,e  

^a Delta Search Labs   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DSL ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESHING TECHNIQUES; TRANSPORT MODELS; VACUUM HALL THRUSTERS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

ROCKET ENGINES;

EID: 34249309244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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