Improvement of the plasma-wall model on a fluid-PIC code of a hall thruster

Félix I. Parra; Eduardo Ahedo; Manuel Martínez-Sánchez; John Michael Fife

Improvement of the plasma-wall model on a fluid-PIC code of a hall thruster

Félix I. Parra, Eduardo Ahedo, Manuel Martínez-Sánchez, John Michael Fife

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Abstract

Two issues are discussed. First, a new sheath model that takes into account charge-saturation is implemented in HPHall. Second, the transition between the quasineutral solution and the sheaths at the lateral walls is found to be treated deficiently in the original code. The use of finer meshes yields better solutions but do not solve the problem completely. Hall thrusters; particle-in-cell codes; sheaths.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	707-714
Number of pages	8
Journal	European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Issue number	555
State	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	Space Propulsion 2004 - 4th International Spacecraft Propulsion Conference - Sardinia, Italy Duration: Jun 2 2004 → Jun 4 2004

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Aerospace Engineering
Space and Planetary Science

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Improvement of the plasma-wall model on a fluid-PIC code of a hall thruster

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