Grid erosion modeling of the next ion thruster optics

39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Emhoff, Jerold W ^a   Boyd, Iain D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM VOLTAGE; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CURRENT FRACTIONS; EROSION RATES; GRID CURRENT; GRID VOLTAGE; PERFORMANCE DATA; WALL EROSION;

EROSION; ION PROPULSION; PROPULSION;

OPTICS;

EID: 84897586242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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