Modeling of a pulsed plasma thruster from plasma generation to plume far field

35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Boyd, Iain D ^a   Keidar, Michael ^a   McKeon, William ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHARGE TRANSFER; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PLASMA DEVICES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; PROPULSION;

ACCELERATION PROCESS; CHARGE EXCHANGE COLLISION; ELECTRON NUMBER DENSITIES; EXPANSION DYNAMICS; LOCAL THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PLASMA PLUME EXPANSION; UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS;

PULSED PLASMA THRUSTERS;

EID: 84963799555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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