Multiscale Modeling of a CAMILA Hall Thruster Discharge
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Copyright c ©2017 by the Aerospace Plasma Laboratory, Technion. Published by the Electric Rocket Propulsion Society with permission. A multiscale model was developed for the channel of a CoAxial Magnetically Insulated Long Anode (CAMILA) Hall effect thruster. The computational domain was subdivided into a region where a hybrid solver is used and a region where a fully kinetic particle in cell solver is used. An interface was developed to transmit particles and field data between the two different solvers. The multiscale simulation results were compared to a fully kinetic simulation as well as experimental results. The results show the usefulness of this type of approach for modeling complex variants of Hall thrusters.
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