Plasma instability of magnetically enhanced vacuum arc thruster

A two-fluid flowing plasma model is applied to describe the plasma rotation and resulted instability evolution in magnetically enhanced vacuum arc thruster (MEVAT). Typical experimental parameters are employed, including plasma density, equilibrium magnetic field, ion and electron temperatures, cath...

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Main Authors: L. Chang, T. P. Zhang, X. Y. Hu, X. M. Wu, X. F. Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2019-01-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5081088