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Xin Zhang, Wenjing Wang, Chaopin Bai, Yueqiang Sun, Shichen Jiang, Zhihao Yang, Qiang Chen, Lichang Zhang, Liguo Zhang, Zhiliang Zhang, Ziting Wang and Shuai Zhang
The present study can be applied to the study of the influence of a Hall thruster plume on the spacecraft surface.
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Luca Leporini, Ferhat Yaman, Tommaso Andreussi and Vittorio Giannetti
Hall thrusters are plasma-based devices that have established themselves as one of the most attractive and mature electric propulsion technologies for space applications. These devices often operate in a regime characterized by low frequency, large ampli...
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Qi Liu, Yong Li, Yanlin Hu and Wei Mao
The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of a magnetic field gradient on the performance of a magnetically shielded Hall thruster. The Particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collision method (PIC-MCC) is used to simulate the discharge process...
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Sang Hun Kang
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 particle-in-cell direct simulation Monte Carlo (PIC-DSMC) method. For the...
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Ethan P. Hopping, Wensheng Huang and Kunning G. Xu
This paper presents the design and performance of the UAH-78AM, a low-power small Hall effect thruster. The goal of this work is to assess the feasibility of using low-cost 3D printing to create functioning Hall thrusters, and study how 3D printing can e...
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Vittorio Giannetti, Manuel Martín Saravia, Luca Leporini, Simone Camarri and Tommaso Andreussi
One of the main oscillatory modes found ubiquitously in Hall thrusters is the so-called breathing mode. This is recognized as a relatively low-frequency (10?30 kHz), longitudinal oscillation of the discharge current and plasma parameters. In this paper, ...
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Hugonnaud Valentin and Mazouffre Stéphane
Over the last decade electric propulsion devices have evolved from laboratory units to qualified space hardware. Due to the diversity of concepts numerous electric thruster technologies are available on the new space market. Each technology has a specifi...
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Matthew Baird, Thomas Kerber, Ron McGee-Sinclair and Kristina Lemmer
Hall effect thrusters (HETs) are an increasingly utilized proportion of electric propulsion devices due to their high thrust-to-power ratio. To enable an accessible research thruster, our team used inexpensive materials and simplified structures to fabri...
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Antonio Piragino, Farbod Faraji, Maryam Reza, Eugenio Ferrato, Annalisa Piraino and Tommaso Andreussi
The paper reports the characterization results of a 20 kW-class magnetically shielded Hall thruster in three different configurations and operating with a centrally mounted cathode. The characterization was carried out at two different pumping speeds in ...
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Giuseppe Gallo, Adriano Isoldi, Dario Del Gatto, Raffaele Savino, Amedeo Capozzoli, Claudio Curcio and Angelo Liseno
The present work is focused on a detailed description of an in-house, particle-in-cell code developed by the authors, whose main aim is to perform highly accurate plasma simulations on an off-the-shelf computing platform in a relatively short computation...
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