In the last 30 years, numerical models have revealed different physical mechanisms
involved in the Hall thruster functioning leading to a bridge between analytical …

The wide range of applications of cold plasmas originates from their special characteristic of
being a physical system out of thermodynamic equilibrium. This property enhances its …

This paper is the first in a series of three papers to summarize the recent work of an
European‐wide collaborationwhich is ongoing since about one decade using Particle‐in …

In a qualification life test of a Hall thruster it was found that the erosion of the acceleration
channel practically stopped after∼ 5600 h⁠. Numerical simulations using a two …

An electron-cyclotron resonance thruster (ECRT) prototype is simulated numerically, using
two coupled models: a hybrid particle-in-cell/fluid model for the integration of the plasma …

In this paper, a methodology is presented to compute the plasma properties (eg,, density
and temperature) accounting for the dynamics of the excited states. The proposed strategy …

Numerical simulations of a magnetically shielded Hall effect thruster with a centrally
mounted cathode are performed with an axisymmetric hybrid particle-in-cell/fluid code and …

The particle-in-cell code has been developed for kinetic simulations of Hall thrusters with a
focus on plasma-wall interaction. It is shown that the effect of secondary electron emission …

The topology of the applied magnetic field is an important design aspect of Hall thrusters.
For modern Hall thrusters, the magnetic field topology most often features curved lines with a …

An axisymmetric fluid model for weakly-collisional, magnetized electrons is introduced and
coupled to a particle-in-cell model for heavy species to simulate electrodeless plasma …