2019
Numerical Analysis on the Plasma Behavior of a Hydrogen MPD Thruster at the Critical Current
JOURNAL OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES
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- Volume
- 67
- Number
- 5
- First page
- 159
- Last page
- 166
- Language
- Japanese
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- DOI
- 10.2322/jjsass.67.159
- Publisher
- Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
For a self-field magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster using hydrogen propellant, plasma flows were numerically simulated with a model including the ion-slip effect. To clarify the thruster behavior near the critical current, the discharge current and the propellant mass flow rate were set to 5 or 10 kA (critical current) and 0.4 g/s, respectively. At the critical current, current paths protruded toward a downstream region due to an increased Hall parameter when compared with the lower current case. In conjunction with this, the pressure was higher in the vicinity of the cathode tip and the ion-slip parameter exceeded unity in the discharge chamber at the critical current. Significant ion-slip heating occurred in the supersonic region, which resulted in limited amount of gas dynamic thrust.
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- DOI : 10.2322/jjsass.67.159
- ISSN : 1344-6460
- eISSN : 2432-3691
- J-Global ID : 201902242234524890
- CiNii Articles ID : 130007723959
- CiNii Books ID : AA11307372
- CiNii Research ID : 1390001277365968256