Efficacy of electron mobility models in hybrid-PIC Hall thruster simulations

44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hofer, Richard R ^a,b   Katz, Ira ^a,b   Mikellides, Ioannis G ^a,b   Goebel, Dan M ^a,b   Jameson, Kristina K ^a,b   Sullivan, Regina M ^a,c   Johnson, Lee K ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Propulsion and Materials Engineering Section   (United States)

^c Engineering and Applied Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT; COLLISIONALITY; ELECTRON CURRENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MOBILITY MODEL; OPERATING CONDITION; PIC SIMULATION; PLASMA POTENTIAL; PLASMA RESPONSE; PLASMA WALL INTERACTION; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; TURBULENT PLASMAS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; GALVANOMAGNETIC EFFECTS; HALL MOBILITY; MODELS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; PLASMA TURBULENCE; PROPULSION;

HALL THRUSTERS;

EID: 77957850809     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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