Hybrid and particle-in-cell models of a stationary plasma thruster
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Stationary Plasma Thrusters (SPTs) are ion sources used for satellite propulsion. They operate at low gas density and the electrons are confined by a magnetic field perpendicular to the discharge axis. Experimental observations and recent simulations (hybrid models) based on a simple description of electron transport have shown that SPTs are subject to strong current oscillations due to ionization instabilities. In this paper we present comparisons between the predictions of the simple hybrid model and those from a more detailed PIC-MCC (particle-in-cell Monte Carlo collisions) simulations. The good qualitative agreement between hybrid and PIC models confirms the interpretation of the low-frequency oscillations deduced from our previous work.
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Numerical tricks (enlarged vacuum permittivity, reduced ion mass, thruster size scaling) are still used in many simulations to reduce computational time.
“Nevertheless, numerical tricks (e.g. enlarged vacuum permittivity and/or reduction of ion mass or thruster size scaling) are still used in many simulations to reduce the computational time (see Refs. 59-64 for E × B thrusters, and Refs. 65-67 for PATs).”
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Section 2.2.1 defines vacuum permittivity and ion mass in the model equations, but does not say either was altered to save computational time. Section 2.1 describes an artificial collision frequency for electron transport, a different adjustment. Searches for enlarged permittivity, reduced ion mass, thruster-size scaling, and computational-time savings found no passage addressing the attributed claim. (LLM, conf=0.74)
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- Authors
- Garrigues, L., Heron, A., Adam, J. C., & Boeuf, J. P.
- Affiliations
- Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (FR)
- École Polytechnique (FR)
- ORCID
- Garrigues, L
- Venue
- Plasma Sources Science and Technology
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2000-05-01
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 219-226
- ISSN
- 0963-0252 (ISSN-L)
- 1361-6595
- OpenAlex
- W2062006824
- Cited by
- 52
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- FWCI
- 5.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Plasma Sources Science and Technology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Office National d'études et de Recherches Aérospatiales
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Plasma Diagnostics and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Vacuum and Plasma Arcs
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena
- Keywords
- stationary plasma thruster, hybrid plasma model, particle-in-cell Monte Carlo collision, electron transport, ionization instability, current oscillations, low-frequency oscillations, electron confinement, magnetic field, satellite propulsion, ion source
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