An End-to-End Model of a Hall Thruster

Abstract

The research has accomplished several goals: the development and implementation of realistic EP plume-wall interactioin models. including tracking and deposition of sputtered material, simulation of the operator of a Hall Thruster in a vacuum tank and the extension to the near-plume of a sophisticated Hall thruster transient hybrid PlC model which had been previously used only to describe the internal flow. The first two items have been described in detail in our previous yearly Report and in published papers and theses. This Final Report concentrates on the last item, the use of a transient PlC code for the plume.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA388111

Entities

People

  • Manuel Martinex-sanchez

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Databases
  • Diameters
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Electrons
  • Engines
  • Flow
  • Hall Thrusters
  • Ion Density
  • Ionization
  • Ions
  • Materials
  • Particles
  • Radial Velocity
  • Simulations
  • Thrusters

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster