DOI

  • Min Li
  • Hui Liu
  • Zhongxi Ning
  • Junxue Ren
  • Haibin Tang
  • Daren Yu
  • Evgenii V. Demidov
  • Stepan I. Eliseev
  • Anatoly A. Kudryavtsev
In this paper, a 2-D model for simulation of an applied-field magnetoplasmadynamic (AF-MPD) thruster with solid and hollow cathodes was built using COMSOL Multiphysics. Extended fluid model was used for self-consistent simulation of discharge processes in the thruster. Ion energy balance equation was developed and added to extended fluid model. A viscously dominated steady-state fully formed gas flow was considered with argon gas used as a propellant. Electron transport properties as well as rates of electron-impact reactions were calculated using electron energy distribution function. Plasmachemical reactions taken into account included direct and stepwise ionization of argon atoms, excitation of metastable levels, three-body and radiation recombination, and so on. Coupling fluid equations with Poisson equation for electric potential allowed for self-consistent description of plasma and sheaths. Distribution of such discharge parameters as charged and excited particle densities and fluxes, charged particles'
Язык оригиналаанглийский
Число страниц9
ЖурналIEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Том43
Номер выпуска12
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - 2015

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