Kinetic Simulations of Spacecraft Charging and Plasma Interactions in the Solar Wind
Analytical and numerical studies are carried out to investigate spacecraft charging and plasma interactions in the solar wind. The physics of spacecraft charging in solar wind is determined by the mesothermal flow and the photoelectron sheath. In order to properly resolve both plasma flow and the ph...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30237 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12222008-150818/ |