Analysis of the plasma transport in numerical simulations of helicon plasma thrusters

Coupled plasma transport and electromagnetic wave simulation of an ECR thruster

(2021) Alvaro Sanchez-Villar et al.   PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Direct experimental comparison of krypton and xenon discharge properties in the magnetic nozzle of a helicon plasma source

(2021) Alfio E. Vinci et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Magnetic nozzle radiofrequency plasma thruster approaching twenty percent thruster efficiency

(2021) Kazunori Takahashi   Scientific Reports

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

Design and In-orbit Demonstration of REGULUS, an Iodine electric propulsion system

(2021) Nicolas Bellomo et al.   CEAS Space Journal

Boundary conditions for drift-diffusion equations in gas-discharge plasmas

(2020) V. V. Gorin et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Macroscopic and parametric study of a kinetic plasma expansion in a paraxial magnetic nozzle

(2020) Eduardo Ahedo et al.   PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Modeling and design of a plasma-based transmit-array with beam scanning capabilities

(2020) Giulia Mansutti et al.   Results in Physics

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

Characterisation of a thermionic plasma source apparatus for high-density gaseous plasma antenna applications

(2020) Alexander Daykin-Iliopoulos et al.   PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Feasibility study of a novel class of plasma antennas for SatCom navigation systems

(2020) Paola De Carlo et al.   ACTA ASTRONAUTICA

Numerical Suite for Gaseous Plasma Antennas Simulation

(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

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

Implementation of the classical plasma–fluid model for simulation of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) actuators in OpenFOAM

(2016) M. Abdollahzadeh et al.   COMPUTERS & FLUIDS

Electron cooling and finite potential drop in a magnetized plasma expansion

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

Numerical validation of axial plasma momentum lost to a lateral wall induced by neutral depletion

(2015) Yoshinori Takao et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Helicon discharges and sources: a review

(2015) Francis F Chen   PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

ADAMANT: A surface and volume integral-equation solver for the analysis and design of helicon plasma sources

(2014) D. Melazzi et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

Helicon plasma thruster discharge model

(2014) T. Lafleur   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Characterization of a helicon plasma source in low diverging magnetic fields

(2011) T Lafleur et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

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

A simple collisional–radiative model for low-temperature argon discharges with pressure ranging from 1 Pa to atmospheric pressure: kinetics of Paschen 1s and 2p levels

(2009) Xi-Ming Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Testing a Helicon Double Layer Thruster Immersed in a Space-Simulation Chamber

(2008) Michael D. West et al.   JOURNAL OF PROPULSION AND POWER

Self-consistent simulation of very high frequency capacitively coupled plasmas

(2008) Shahid Rauf et al.   PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY