Electric Propulsion

Presentations

• Technology Development for In-space Nuclear Electric Propulsion

  ORAL · Invited

  Oct. 8, 2021, 8:00 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 8:30 AM

  Presenters

  • Kurt Polzin

    • NASA – George C. Marshall Space Flight Center

  Authors

  • Kurt Polzin

    • NASA – George C. Marshall Space Flight Center

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• Cross-field electron transport due to coupling of drift-driven microinstabilities in the presence of singly, doubly, and triply charged ion streams

  ORAL

  Oct. 8, 2021, 8:30 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 8:45 AM

  Publication: P. Kumar, S. Tsikata, and K. Hara, "Cross-field electron transport due to coupling of drift-driven microinstabilities in the presence of singly, doubly, and triply charged ion streams" in preparation, Journal of Applied Physics (2021).

  Presenters

  • Prabhat Kumar

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Prabhat Kumar

    • Stanford Univ
    • Stanford University

  • Sedina Tsikata

    • ICARE UPR 3021, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
    • French National Centre for Scientific Research
    • CNRS ICARE, Orleans, France
    • CNRS - ICARE

  • Kentaro Hara

    • Stanford University
    • Stanford Univ

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• Enhancing Confinement and Acceleration of Cathodic Plasma Plume by Using Electro-magnetic Nozzle

  ORAL

  Oct. 8, 2021, 8:45 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 9:00 AM

  Publication: [1] Takahashi, K. "Helicon-type radiofrequency plasma thrusters and magnetic plasma nozzles," Rev. Mod. Plasma Phys. 3, 3
  (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41614-019-0024-2
  [2] Takahashi, K., Sugawara, T. & Ando, A. "Spatially- and vector-resolved momentum flux lost to a wall in a magnetic nozzle rf
  plasma thruster". Sci Rep 10, 1061 (2020).
  [3] Takahashi, K., Charles, C., Boswell, R. W., and Ando, A., "Thermodynamic Analogy for Electrons Interacting with a Magnetic
  Nozzle," Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 165001 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.165001
  [4] Correyero, S., Jarrige, J., Packan, D., and Ahedo, E., "Plasma beam characterization along the magnetic nozzle of an ECR
  thruster," Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 28 095004 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ab38e1
  [5] Chan, Y.A., Edamoto, M., Romano, F., Herdrich, G., Yamamoto, N. "Electro-magnetic Nozzle for Plasma Acceleration of an
  Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Cathode: Development and Characterization," 7th Space Propulsion Conference,
  SP2020_00308, virtual, March 17 – 19, 2021

  Presenters

  • Yung-An C Chan

    • Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart

  Authors

  • Yung-An C Chan

    • Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart

  • Georg Herdrich

    • Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart

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• Investigation of Hall effect thruster instabilities with axial-azimuthal PIC simulation using a collective Thomson scattering approach

  ORAL

  Oct. 8, 2021, 9:00 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 9:15 AM

  Presenters

  • Tarek Ben Slimane

    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France

  Authors

  • Tarek Ben Slimane

    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France

  • Cyrille Honoré

    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France

  • Thomas Charoy

    • LPP
    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France

  • Alejandro Alvarez Laguna

    • LPP
    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
    • LPP, Ecole polytechnique
    • CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS, E. Polytechnique

  • Anne Bourdon

    • LPP, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
    • LPP
    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
    • LPP, Ecole polytechnique
    • CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
    • Laboratory of Plasma Physics, École Polytechnique
    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
    • LPP, CNRS, Sorbonne Universit\'e, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France

  • Pascal Chabert

    • Ecole Polytechnique
    • Ecole Polytechnique, France
    • LPP, Ecole polytechnique

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• Recent performance improvement of a magnetic nozzle rf plasma thruster

  ORAL

  Oct. 8, 2021, 9:15 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 9:30 AM

  Publication: Kazunori Takahashi, Scientific Reports, 11, 2768 (2021).

  Presenters

  • Kazunori Takahashi

    • Tohoku University
    • Tohoku Univ

  Authors

  • Kazunori Takahashi

    • Tohoku University
    • Tohoku Univ

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• Fully kinetic simulations of a magnetic nozzle radiofrequency plasma thruster using an open axial boundary condition

  ORAL

  Oct. 8, 2021, 9:30 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 9:45 AM

  Publication: - Kazuma Emoto, Kazunori Takahashi, and Yoshinori Takao, "Axial momentum gains of ions and electrons in magnetic nozzle," Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., under review, arXiv: 2104.09906
  - Kazuma Emoto, Kazunori Takahashi, and Yoshinori Takao, "Numerical investigation of internal plasma currents in a magnetic nozzle," Phy. Plasmas, under review, arXiv: 2104.02854

  Presenters

  • Kazuma Emoto

    • Yokohama National University

  Authors

  • Kazuma Emoto

    • Yokohama National University

  • Kazunori Takahashi

    • Tohoku University
    • Tohoku Univ

  • Yoshinori Takao

    • Yokohama National University

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• Study of the instabilities in radial-azimuthal and axial-azimuthal 2D PIC simulations of a Hall Thruster

  ORAL

  Oct. 8, 2021, 9:45 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 10:00 AM

  Publication: Conditions of appearance and dynamics of the modified two-stream instability in E × B discharges
  Physics of Plasmas 28, 043504 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0046843

  Presenters

  • Federico Petronio

    • LPP

  Authors

  • Federico Petronio

    • LPP

  • Thomas Charoy

    • LPP
    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France

  • Antoine Tavant

    • LPP

  • Alejandro Alvarez Laguna

    • LPP
    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
    • LPP, Ecole polytechnique
    • CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS, E. Polytechnique

  • Anne Bourdon

    • LPP, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
    • LPP
    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
    • LPP, Ecole polytechnique
    • CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
    • Laboratory of Plasma Physics, École Polytechnique
    • Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
    • LPP, CNRS, Sorbonne Universit\'e, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France

  • Pascal Chabert

    • Ecole Polytechnique
    • Ecole Polytechnique, France
    • LPP, Ecole polytechnique

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