Magnetic nozzle performance in a cluster of helicon plasma thrusters

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Di Fede, Simone, Manente, Marco, Comunian, Paolo João, Magarotto, Mirko
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2024
• الموضوعات: Engineering; Clustering electric propulsion; Helicon plasma thruster
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174275
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

A numerical study of the plasma dynamics in a Helicon Plasma Thrusters’ (HPT) cluster is presented. For the first time in the literature, the three-dimensional (3D) plasma dynamics occurring in the plume of a HPTs’ cluster is analyzed. The physical investigation relies on ProPic, a 3D particle-in-ce...