Wall sheath and electron mobility modeling in hybrid-PIC hall thruster simulations

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2632-2646

  Hofer, Richard R ^a,b,c   Mikellides, Ioannis G ^a,b,c   Katz, Ira ^a,b,c   Goebel, Dan M ^a,b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Propulsion and Materials Engineering Section   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; ELECTRON MOBILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA WAVES;

CODE MODIFICATIONS; HALL THRUSTER SIMULATIONS; WALL SHEATH;

HALL EFFECT;

EID: 36749054758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-5267     Document Type: Conference Paper

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