Enhanced ionization in the cylindrical hall thruster

A. Smirnov; Y. Raitses; N. J. Fisch

doi:10.1063/1.1585114

Enhanced ionization in the cylindrical hall thruster

A. Smirnov, Y. Raitses, N. J. Fisch

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Abstract

A cylindrical Hall thruster with a cusp-type magnetic field distribution was investigated. The cylindrical thrusters have unusally high propellant utilization, compared to conventional Hall thrusters. Numerical simulations show that the increase in the propellant utilization does not appear to be quantitatively explained by a reduction of plasma wall losses.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	852-857
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	94
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1585114
State	Published - Jul 15 2003

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