HALL thrusters are under development in several countries, including the United States,
Russia, Japan, and France. These electricpropulsiondevicestypicallyofferaspe… 1600 s and …

The physics of neutral and ion species in plume expansions to vacuum is challenging due to
the wide variation in length and time scales. To address the multiscale nature of these flows …

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To develop technologies for the stable operation of electric propulsion systems, the effects of
charge exchange (CEX) on the exhaust plume of a Hall thruster were studied using the …

Ion thruster plumes are simulated under a framework that was recently developed to take
advantage of the large scalability of unstructured grids using adaptive mesh refinement …

Ion thruster plumes are simulated under a recently developed computer framework inside a
vacuum chamber at various background pressures for single-and triple-thruster …

THE modeling of electric thruster plumes is a very important issue in view of the increasing
importance of such propulsion in all space applications when specifi c impulse, and not just …

N 2004 Adam, Heron, and Laval [1], presented the results of a 2-D, Z-θ particle simulation,
and proposed that turbulence generated by the electron cyclotron drift instability causes the …

Technology (SMART-1) of the ESA Horizons 2000 scientifi c program is dedicated to the
testing of new technologies for preparing future cornerstone missions, using solar-electric …

The plumes of two electric propulsion thrusters are simulated using a computer code which
combines the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) and the Particlein-Cell (PIC) …