Investigation of the start transient in a Hall thruster

H. Liu; D. R. Yu; G. J. Yan; J. Y. Liu

doi:10.1002/ctpp.200810094

Investigation of the start transient in a Hall thruster

H. Liu^*
, D. R. Yu
, G. J. Yan
, J. Y. Liu

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Energy Science and Engineering

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Abstract

A two dimensional axisymmetric fully kinetic Particle-in-Cell/Monte Carlo Collision (PIC-MCC) model is used to describe the ignition process in a Hall thruster. A current peak and latter the periodic oscillation of current and electric potential are found. The corresponding evolutions of plasma density, electric potential and atom density during the ignition process are introduced in the paper. In addition, influences of mass flow rate and discharge potential on current peak are modeled and analyzed. The simulated results are consistent with former experimental results.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	603-611
Number of pages	9
Journal	Contributions to Plasma Physics
Volume	48
Issue number	9-10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.200810094
State	Published - Dec 2008

Keywords

Hall thruster
Ignition
Particle-in-cell
Simulation

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