Kinetic model of a helicon plasma source for VASIMR

39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Batishchev, Oleg ^a   Molvig, Kim ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICON PLASMA SOURCE; HELIUM DISCHARGE; HYDROGEN DISCHARGE; KINETIC MODELING; KINETIC SIMULATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PLASMA CHEMISTRIES; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL MODELS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; FLOW OF GASES; HYDROGEN; KINETIC PARAMETERS; KINETIC THEORY; PLASMA SOURCES;

IONIZATION OF GASES;

EID: 84897586289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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