Fundamental Study of Interactions Between High-Density Pulsed Plasmas and Materials for Space Propulsion

Abstract

Objective: Study at the fundamental level interactions between pulsed, high-pressure, thermal plasmas and materials such as those encountered in space propulsion devices including Pulsed Plasma Thrusters (PPT), Magneto-Plasma Dynamic (MPD) thrusters and capillary plasma-based thrusters. The ongoing research work brings together a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with diverse backgrounds in experimental and computational plasma physics, pulsed power engineering, materials science and atomistic-scale materials modeling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA568370

Entities

People

  • Francesco Stefani
  • Graeme Henkelman
  • Ian Mcnab
  • Laxminarayan L. Raja
  • Roger Bengtson
  • Waltraud M. Kriven

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blood
  • Electric Propulsion
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Engineering
  • High Density
  • High Pressure
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Particle Flux
  • Power Engineering
  • Pulsed Plasma Thrusters
  • Pulsed Power
  • Simulations
  • Space Propulsion
  • Thrusters

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Plasma Physics.
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster