Faraday probes are a common plasma diagnostic used to determine the local ion charge
flux of electric propulsion plumes. Standard practices, guidelines, and recommendations are …

A Hall effect plasma thruster with conductive acceleration channel walls was numerically
modeled using 2D3V Particle-in-Cell (PIC) and Monte-Carlo Collision (MCC) methodolo …

A paraxial model of an unmagnetized, collisionless plasma plume expanding into vacuum is
presented. Electrons are treated kinetically, relying on the adiabatic invariance of their radial …

A particle-in-cell Monte Carlo collision model is developed to explore dominant collisional
effects on high-velocity xenon ions incident to a quiescent xenon gas at low neutral …

Although several operational codes are available for the prediction of plume dynamics of
Hall thrusters and their interactions with spacecraft surfaces, their coverage of the range of …

Charge exchange (CEX) ions could inflict severe damages on the ion thruster optical
system. This article is aimed at investigating the characteristics of the CEX ions and their …

An in-house code is developed to simulate the inductively coupled plasma (ICP). The model
comprises the fluid, electromagnetic and transformer submodels. Fluid equations are solved …

BACK in 2003, ESA started an ambitious program called SMART (Smart Missions for
Advanced Research and Technology), which is dedicated to the development and …

The large-angle scattered ions are generated in the plasma plume mainly due to the ion-
atom collisions. These ions can induce thrust loss, backflow, or sputtering on the spacecraft …

Potential sputtering erosion caused by the interactions between spacecraft and plasma
plume of Hall thrusters is a concern for electric propulsion. In this study, calculation model of …