4 papers
Analysis of collisional and facility effects in a magnetic nozzle plasma expansion
Manuel Cortés-Hernán, Mario Merino, Diego GarcÃa-Lahuerta +1
An axisymmetric, quasineutral three-fluid model is proposed to study the plasma expansion in a magnetic nozzle under the presence of neutrals coming either from the plasma source o…
Fully-implicit Particle-in-Cell model of a Magnetic Nozzle with electromagnetic power deposition
Mario Merino, Juan MartÃn-Hernández, Pedro Jiménez-Jiménez +1
A fraction of the electromagnetic power used to generate and heat the plasma in helicon sources and electrodeless plasma thrusters can leak into the outer expansion region, interac…
Benchmark for two-dimensional large scale coherent structures in partially magnetized ExB plasmas -- Community collaboration & lessons learned
Andrew T. Powis, Eduardo Ahedo, Alejandro Ãlvarez Laguna +38
Low-temperature plasmas are essential to both fundamental scientific research and critical industrial applications. As in many areas of science, numerical simulations have become a…
Lower-Hybrid Drift Instabilities in a magnetic nozzle
Matteo Ripoli, Eduardo Ahedo, Mario Merino
Magnetic nozzles are a key component of electrodeless plasma thrusters, acting as their main acceleration stage. Non-stationary phenomena common to the entire range of …