Progress in development of a combined device/plume model for hall thrusters

36th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Boyd, Iain D ^a   Garrigues, Laurent ^a,b   Koo, Justin ^a   Keidar, Michael ^a  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

^b Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d'Energie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROPULSION;

ACCELERATION CHANNELS; DEVICE MODELING; DIRECT SIMULATION; IN- CELL METHODS; MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; THRUSTER PERFORMANCE; TIME-AVERAGED VELOCITY;

HALL THRUSTERS;

EID: 84896477339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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