• DocumentCode
    3527597
  • Title

    Evaluations of grid currents of an ion engine by particle analysis

  • Author

    Miyasaka, Tomohiro ; Asato, K. ; Sugiyama, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Human & Inf. Syst., Gifu Univ., Gifu, Japan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    11-14 Nov. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    To evaluate the effects of inflowing-high-energy electrons on the grid erosion, three-dimensional full-PIC analyses of ion engine were conducted. A comparison of the results of full-PIC results show that the inflowing high energy electrons expand the sheath region downstream and blurs the sheath edge. However, only a slight influence of the electrons on grid currents is observed.
  • Keywords
    ion engines; grid currents evaluation; grid erosion; inflowing high energy electrons; inflowing-high-energy electrons; ion engine; particle analysis; sheath edge; sheath region downstream; three-dimensional full-PIC analyses; Electric potential; Engines; Estimation; Ion beams; Ions; Plasmas; Propulsion; full-PIC analysis; grid current; grid erosion; ion engine;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA), 2012 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Nagasaki
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2328-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2329-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICRERA.2012.6477307
  • Filename
    6477307
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3527597