Shear-based model for electron transport in 2D hybrid hall thruster simulations

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 2006-2015

  Scharfe, Michelle K ^a,c,d   Thomas, Cliff A ^a,c,d   Scharfe, David B ^a,c,d   Gascon, Nicolas ^a,c,d   Cappelli, Mark A ^a,c,d   Fernandez, Eduardo ^b,e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Mechanical Engineering Department   (India)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e Department of Mathematics and Physics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AXIAL SHEAR; ELECTRON FLUIDS; HALL THRUSTER SIMULATIONS;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 36749071620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-5208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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