論文

2014年1月

Two-Dimensional Particle-In-Cell Simulation of Magnetic Sails

JOURNAL OF PROPULSION AND POWER
  • Yasumasa Ashida
  • ,
  • Ikkoh Funaki
  • ,
  • Hiroshi Yamakawa
  • ,
  • Hideyuki Usui
  • ,
  • Yoshihiro Kajimura
  • ,
  • Hirotsugu Kojima

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開始ページ
233
終了ページ
245
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.2514/1.B34692
出版者・発行元
AMER INST AERONAUTICS ASTRONAUTICS

A magnetic sail is spacecraft propulsion that produces an artificial magnetosphere to block solar wind particles and thus impart momentum to accelerate a spacecraft. In the present study, the authors conducted two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations on small-scale magnetospheres to investigate thrust characteristics of a magnetic sail and its derivative, magnetoplasma sail, in which the magnetosphere is inflated by an additional plasma injection. As a result, the authors found that the electron Larmor motion and the charge separation become significant on such a small-scale magnetosphere and the thrust of the magnetic sail is affected by the cross-sectional size of the charge-separated magnetosphere. The authors also reveal that the plasma injection, on the condition that the kinetic energy of plasma is smaller than the local magnetic field energy (approximate to 10-3), can significantly inflate the magnetosphere by inducing diamagnetic current in the same direction as the onboard coil current. As a result, the magnetoplasma sail thrust is increased effectively by an additional plasma injection: the magnetoplasma sail thrust (15N/m) becomes up to 7.5 times larger than the original thrust of the magnetic sail (2.0N/m). In addition, they found that the thrust gain of the magnetoplasma sail, defined as magnetoplasma sail thrust/(magnetic sail thrust+plasma injection thrust) becomes up to 2.2.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2514/1.B34692
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000333604600026&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.2514/1.B34692
  • ISSN : 0748-4658
  • eISSN : 1533-3876
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000333604600026

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