Simulations of a miniaturized cylindrical Hall thruster

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 1, 2008, Pages 2034-2042

  Garrigues, Laurent ^a   Hagelaar, Gerjan J M ^a   Boeuf, Jean Pierre ^a   Raitses, Yevgeny ^b   Smirnov, Artem ^b   Fisch, Nathaniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anodes; Cylindrical Hall thruster (CHT); Discharges; Electric potential; Ionization; Ions; Magnetic fields; Mathematical model; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ANODES; ATOMS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; IONIZATION; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

2-D MODELS; CYLINDRICAL HALL THRUSTER (CHT); DISCHARGES; DOUBLY CHARGED IONS; FLUID DESCRIPTIONS; HYBRID MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOMENTUM EQUATIONS; NEUTRAL ATOMS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SIMULATIONS; SURFACE RATIOS; UTILIZATION EFFICIENCIES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 59749092116     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.2003976     Document Type: Article

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