Fluid Simulation of a Cusped Field Thruster

H. Liu; H. Wu; Y. Meng; S. Yang; J. Zhang; D. Yu

doi:10.1002/ctpp.201500011

Fluid Simulation of a Cusped Field Thruster

H. Liu
, H. Wu^*
, Y. Meng
, S. Yang
, J. Zhang
, D. Yu

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Energy Science and Engineering

Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

The cusped field thruster is a kind of newly developed electric propulsion device. The electric field at the channel exit and the low frequency oscillation were measured by former experiments. While the formation mechanism of them have not been fully interpreted yet. Through studying two distinguishing typical electron paths in the thrusters, a fluid model is built up along two electron paths, and then the model is completed by synthetically analyzing the effect of two electron paths. Time-averaged electric potential distribution, anode current oscillation curve and time-synchronized atom density and ion density distribution are obtained by simulation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	545-550
Number of pages	6
Journal	Contributions to Plasma Physics
Volume	55
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.201500011
State	Published - 1 Aug 2015

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Current oscillation
Cusped field thruster
Electric potential distribution
Fluid model

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