Electric Propulsion

Presentations

• Technology Development for In-space Nuclear Electric Propulsion

  ORAL · Invited

  Oct. 8, 2021, 9:00 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 9:30 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, 9:30 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 9:45 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, 9:45 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 10:00 AM

  Publication: [1] Takahashi, K. "Helicon-type radiofrequency plasma thrusters and magnetic plasma nozzles," Rev. Mod. Plasma Phys. 3, 3 <br> (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41614-019-0024-2<br>[2] Takahashi, K., Sugawara, T. & Ando, A. "Spatially- and vector-resolved momentum flux lost to a wall in a magnetic nozzle rf <br> plasma thruster". Sci Rep 10, 1061 (2020).<br>[3] Takahashi, K., Charles, C., Boswell, R. W., and Ando, A., "Thermodynamic Analogy for Electrons Interacting with a Magnetic <br> Nozzle," Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 165001 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.165001 <br>[4] Correyero, S., Jarrige, J., Packan, D., and Ahedo, E., "Plasma beam characterization along the magnetic nozzle of an ECR <br> thruster," Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 28 095004 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ab38e1<br>[5] Chan, Y.A., Edamoto, M., Romano, F., Herdrich, G., Yamamoto, N. "Electro-magnetic Nozzle for Plasma Acceleration of an <br> Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Cathode: Development and Characterization," 7th Space Propulsion Conference, <br> 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, 10:00 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 10:15 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, 10:15 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 10:30 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, 10:30 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 10:45 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<br>- 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, 10:45 AM – Oct. 8, 2021, 11:00 AM

  Publication: Conditions of appearance and dynamics of the modified two-stream instability in E × B discharges<br>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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