Performance Improvements in Plasma Thrusters.

Abstract

This Report documents our research in two areas of Electric Propulsion: (a) A preliminary study of the performance of cesium seeded hydrogen arcjets, which showed a feasible design range in which frozen losses can be nearly eliminated, and (b) A particle simulation numerical model of Hall thrusters, which can give both, fairly accurate overall performance predictions, and also detailed information about internal parameter distributions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 04, 1996
Accession Number
ADA305465

Entities

People

  • Manuel Martinez-sanchez

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arc Jet Engines
  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Convection
  • Electric Propulsion
  • Electron Density
  • Electron Energy
  • Electrons
  • Energy Transfer
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Ionization Potentials
  • Magnetoplasmadynamic Thrusters
  • Rockets
  • Three Dimensional
  • Thrusters
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster