The Effect of Electric Field Structure on Joule Heating II: An Expanded Data Set

Abstract

Emissive probe and ion energy analyzer diagnostics have been used to deduce the effect of electric field scale size on ion temperature in space simulation of ion heating in a large vacuum chamber. Results suggest an increase in ion temperature as a function of electric field scale size but a limit proportional to mean free path.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 28, 2001
Accession Number
ADA394795

Entities

People

  • D. N. Walker
  • G. Ganguli
  • William E. Amatucci

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analyzers
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Chambers
  • Charged Particles
  • Collisions
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Electric Fields
  • Frequency
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Mean Free Path
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Particle Physics
  • Simulations
  • Vacuum
  • Vacuum Chambers

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster