Simulation of the plume of a magnetically enhanced plasma thruster with SPIS

Time-dependent expansion of a weakly-collisional plasma beam in a paraxial magnetic nozzle

(2021) J Zhou et al.   PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Development of a lumping methodology for the analysis of the excited states in plasma discharges operated with argon, neon, krypton, and xenon

(2021) N. Souhair et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Numerical Model of a Helicon Plasma Thruster

(2020) Mirko Magarotto et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

Parametric Study of a Cathode-Less Radio Frequency Thruster

(2020) Mirko Magarotto et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

Enhanced biDimensional pIc: an electrostatic/magnetostatic particle-in-cell code for plasma based systems

(2019) G. Gallina et al.   JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS

Study on the influence of the magnetic field geometry on the power deposition in a helicon plasma source

(2019) M. Magarotto et al.   JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS

3D-VIRTUS: Equilibrium condition solver of radio-frequency magnetized plasma discharges for space applications

(2019) M. Magarotto et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

Development of a counterbalanced pendulum thrust stand for electric propulsion

(2018) F. Trezzolani et al.   MEASUREMENT

REGULUS: A propulsion platform to boost small satellite missions

(2018) M. Manente et al.   ACTA ASTRONAUTICA

On the Boris solver in particle-in-cell simulation

(2018) Seiji Zenitani et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Fully kinetic simulations of collisionless, mesothermal plasma emission: Macroscopic plume structure and microscopic electron characteristics

(2017) Yuan Hu et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

SPIS 5.1: An Innovative Approach for Spacecraft Plasma Modeling

(2015) Benoit Thiebault et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

SPIS 5: New Modeling Capabilities and Methods for Scientific Missions

(2015) Pierre Sarrailh et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

Kinetic Simulations of Plasma Plume Potential in a Vacuum Chamber

(2015) Joseph Wang et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

Electron cooling and finite potential drop in a magnetized plasma expansion

(2015) M. Martinez-Sanchez et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Helicon discharges and sources: a review

(2015) Francis F Chen   PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Measurement of plasma momentum exerted on target by a small helicon plasma thruster and comparison with direct thrust measurement

(2015) Kazunori Takahashi et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Development of Electrodeless Plasma Thrusters With High-Density Helicon Plasma Sources

(2014) Shunjiro Shinohara et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

Helicon plasma thruster discharge model

(2014) T. Lafleur   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Effect of magnetic and physical nozzles on plasma thruster performance

(2014) Kazunori Takahashi et al.   PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ray-tracing WKB analysis of Whistler waves in non-uniform magnetic fields applied to space thrusters

(2014) A Cardinali et al.   PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Boltzmann expansion in a radiofrequency conical helicon thruster operating in xenon and argon

(2013) C. Charles et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Approaching the Theoretical Limit of Diamagnetic-Induced Momentum in a Rapidly Diverging Magnetic Nozzle

(2013) Kazunori Takahashi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Why is Boris algorithm so good?

(2013) Hong Qin et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Global model of a gridded-ion thruster powered by a radiofrequency inductive coil

(2012) P. Chabert et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

A magnetic nozzle calculation of the force on a plasma

(2012) A. Fruchtman et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Performance characterization of a helicon double layer thruster using direct thrust measurements

(2011) Sabrina Pottinger et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Electron Diamagnetic Effect on Axial Force in an Expanding Plasma: Experiments and Theory

(2011) Kazunori Takahashi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Plasmas for space propulsion

(2011) Eduardo Ahedo   PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION

Two-dimensional supersonic plasma acceleration in a magnetic nozzle

(2010) E. Ahedo et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Minihelicon Plasma Thruster

(2009) O.V. Batishchev   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

Plasma modelling and numerical simulation

(2009) J van Dijk et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS