Low Temperature Plasmas: Thrusters, Sheaths, and Modeling

Presentations

• Princeton Collaborative Low Temperature Plasma Research Facility: first results and new solicitation of proposals.

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 2:00 PM – Nov. 11, 2020, 2:12 PM

  Authors

  • Yevgeny Raitses

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University , Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

  • Igor Kaganovich

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • PPPL
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

  • Mikhail Shneider

    • Princeton University

  • Shurik Yatom

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University , Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

  • Sophia Gershman

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Arthur Dogariu

    • Princeton University

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• Studies of voltage-modulated Hall thrusters

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 2:12 PM – Nov. 11, 2020, 2:24 PM

  Authors

  • Jacob Simmonds

    • Princeton University

  • Yevgeny Raitses

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University , Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

  • Vernon Chaplin

    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Andrei Smolyakov

    • Univ of Saskatchewan
    • University of Saskatchewan

  • Oleksandr Chapurin

    • Univ of Saskatchewan
    • University of Saskatchewan

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• Simulation of a capacitively coupled plasma micro-thruster using the particle-in-cell method.

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 2:24 PM – Nov. 11, 2020, 2:36 PM

  Authors

  • Michael May

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Andrew Powis

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

  • Igor Kaganovich

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • PPPL
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

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• Direct continuum Boltzmann solver using spherical harmonic expansion

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 2:36 PM – Nov. 11, 2020, 2:48 PM

  Authors

  • Stephen Swanekamp

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • David Kessler

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • A. S. Richardson

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory
    • Naval Research Laboratory
    • US Naval Research Laboratory

  • Tzvetelina Petrova

    • Naval Research Laboratory
    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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• A novel high-fidelity multi-fluid solver for plasma simulations.

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 2:48 PM – Nov. 11, 2020, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • Xiaowen Wang

    • Univ of Alabama - Tuscaloosa

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• Simulation of ion-acoustic wave excitation, reflection and wave-particle scattering in the presheath

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 3:00 PM – Nov. 11, 2020, 3:12 PM

  Authors

  • Lucas Beving

    • Univ of Iowa

  • Matthew Hopkins

    • Sandia National Laboratories (NM)

  • Scott Baalrud

    • Univ of Iowa
    • University of Iowa

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• Plasma Sheath Around Long Conductors with Elliptic Cross-sections

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 3:12 PM – Nov. 11, 2020, 3:24 PM

  Authors

  • Luca Chiab\'o

    • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

  • Gonzalo S\'anchez-Arriaga

    • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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• An Efficient Vlasov-Poisson Solver and Deep Parametric Analysis of Cylindrical Emissive Probes

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 3:24 PM – Nov. 11, 2020, 3:36 PM

  Authors

  • Sadaf Shahsavani

    • Univ Carlos III De Madrid

  • Gonzalo Sánchez-Arriaga

    • Univ Carlos III De Madrid

  • Xin Chen

    • Univ Carlos III De Madrid

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• A Parametric Study using Fluid and Particle-in-Cell Modeling of the Ion Distributions in RF sheaths at ICRH antennas

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 3:36 PM – Nov. 11, 2020, 3:48 PM

  Authors

  • Moutaz Elias

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Davide Curreli

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois
    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois - UC

  • J. R. Myra

    • Lodestar
    • Lodestar Research Corporation, Boulder CO
    • Lodestar Research Corporation
    • Lodestar Research

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• Overview of Recent Progress on Optical Diagnostics for Hall Thrusters at NASA JPL

  ORAL

  Nov. 11, 2020, 3:48 PM – Nov. 11, 2020, 4:00 PM

  Authors

  • Vernon Chaplin

    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Robert Lobbia

    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Parker Roberts

    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Timothy Simka

    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Alejandro Lopez Ortega

    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

  • Ioannis Mikellides

    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Richard Hofer

    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • James Polk

    • Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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