Publication Date:
2019-08-13
Description:
An iodine-operated 200-W Hall thruster plume has been simulated using a hybrid-PIC model to predict the spacecraft surface-plume interaction for spacecraft integration purposes. For validation of the model, the plasma potential, electron temperature, ion current flux, and ion number density of xenon propellant were compared with available measurement data at the nominal operating condition. To simulate iodine plasma, various collision cross sections were found and used in the model. While time-varying atomic iodine species (i.e., I, I+, I2+) information is provided by HP Hall simulation at the discharge channel exit, the molecular iodine species (i.e., I2, I2+) are introduced as Maxwellian particles at the channel exit. Simulation results show that xenon and iodine plasma plumes appear to be very similar under the assumptions of the model. Assuming a sticking coefficient of unity, iodine deposition rate is estimated.
Keywords:
Spacecraft Propulsion and Power
Type:
GRC-E-DAA-TN37710
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Liquid Propulsion (LPS) Meeting; Dec 05, 2016 - Dec 08, 2016; Phoenix, AZ; United States|Programmatic and Industrial Base Meeting (PIB) Meeting; Dec 05, 2016 - Dec 08, 2016; Phoenix, AZ; United States|JANNAF Joint Subcommittee Meeting; Dec 05, 2016 - Dec 08, 2016; Phoenix, AZ; United States|Spacecraft Propulsion (SPS) Meeting; Dec 05, 2016 - Dec 08, 2016; Phoenix, AZ; United States|Modeling and Simulation (MSS) Meeting; Dec 05, 2016 - Dec 08, 2016; Phoenix, AZ; United States
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