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most cited3D PIC Study of Magnetic Field Effects on Hall Thruster Electron Drift Instability

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physics.plasm-ph2026

Near-Wall Pathways of Anomalous Electron Transport in Hall Thrusters Revealed by 3D PIC Simulations

Zhe Liu, Zhongping Zhao, Yinjian Zhao

Cross-field electron transport in Hall thrusters is widely attributed to high-frequency instabilities, yet its net spatial pathway remains poorly resolved. Here we perf…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Unperturbed-orbit integration and the 3D kinetic dispersion relation of the electron cyclotron drift instability

Yinjian Zhao

High-frequency instabilities in crossed-field () plasmas are widely implicated in anomalous cross-field electron transport in Hall thrusters and related devices.…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 1 cited

The effect of ion rotational flow on Hall thruster azimuthal instability via two dimensional PIC simulations

Zhijun Zhou, Lihuan Xie, Xin Luo +2

Previous experimental studies have found that the neutral gas rotational flow in the opposite direction of electron Hall drift can lead to better experimental results comparing to…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 3 cited

3D PIC Study of Magnetic Field Effects on Hall Thruster Electron Drift Instability

KunPeng Zhong, Demai Zeng, Yinjian Zhao +1

To fully characterize electron drift instability, a critical phenomenon governing electron transport in Hall thrusters, large-scale three-dimensional (3D) particle-in-cell (PIC) si…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 2 cited

Impact of Azimuthal Magnetic Field Inhomogeneity on Hall Thruster high-frequency azimuthal instability via 2D radial-azimuthal PIC simulations

Zhijun Zhou, Xin Luo, Yinjian Zhao +1

For the SPT-type Hall thrusters, the magnetic structure with magnetic conductive columns leads inherent to azimuthally inhomogeneous magnetic configurations. This azimuthal magneti…

physics.plasm-ph2025★ 2 cited

Numerical study on wave attenuation via 2D fully kinetic electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations

Fei Du, Yize Yan, Jingfeng Tang +2

The propagation and absorption of electromagnetic waves in plasma is one of the fundamental issues in plasma physics. The electromagnetic particle-in-cell method with the finite-di…