Pressure map of a facility as a function of flow rate to study facility effects

38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Walker, Mitchell L R ^a   Gallimore, Alec D ^a   Cai, Chunpei ^b   Boyd, Iain D ^b  

^a Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; HALL THRUSTERS; IONIZATION OF GASES; NASA; PROPULSION;

3-D NUMERICAL MODELING; DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO METHOD; HOT CATHODE IONIZATION GAUGE; INITIAL DEVELOPMENT; LARGE VACUUM TEST FACILITIES; OPERATING CONDITION; STICKING COEFFICIENTS; UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 85086617188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-3815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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