Thrust efficiency, energy efficiency and the role of VDF in hall thruster performance analysis

Collection of Technical Papers - 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2664-2681

  Larson, C William ^a,b   Brown, Daniel L ^a,b,c   Hargus Jr , William A ^a,b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IONIZATION; PROPELLANTS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

PROPELLANT JETS; THRUST EFFICIENCY; THRUSTER PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (VDF);

AIRCRAFT PROPELLERS;

EID: 36748998960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-5270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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